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Activity
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Harriet Tubman and the End of Slavery [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on Harriet Tubman describes her life and heroism as a leader of the Underground Railroad and of the fight against slavery. Includes questions for discussion and group activity.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Bringing History Home: Segregation History

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This 3rd grade unit introduces children to the history of segregation, from the end of the Civil War in 1865 through the 1940s. Its content bridges the period between slavery and the peak of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and...
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Harriet Tubman Web Hunt: Leading the Way to Freedom

For Students 5th - 8th
A "web hunt" activity where students answer questions about Harriet Tubman and her experience on the underground railroad. Activity includes questions and internet links to find the answers to the questions.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Escaping Slavery: Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for three lessons that use the internet and the book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson to learn about the Underground Railroad. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Drinking Gourd

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
After learning the song Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winters, students will use the Underground Railroad to identify with some goal or task in their own life.
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Lesson Plan
Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Literature Unit: The House of Dies Drear

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
"The House of Dies Drear," is a powerful novel by Virginia Hamilton.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Harriet Tubman (Spanish Translation)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about one of the great leaders of the movement to free southern slaves. Truly a life of selflessness, Harriet Tubman risked her freedom to help others escape. Find out more about this exceptional American's way of life. [Spanish...
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Harriet Tubman: Secret Messages Through Song

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This ArtsEdge lesson, part of a larger unit about Harriet Tubman, not only teaches students about spirituals but effectively illustrates the struggle for freedom from slavery.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Nathan and Mary Johnson Properties

For Students 9th - 10th
These buildings, now housing the New Bedford Historical Society, belonged to a free African-American couple active in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. They notably took in activist Frederick Douglass after his...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Northeast China, 1971

For Students 9th - 10th
"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...