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Archaeology Interactive
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Museum archaeologists and educators lead students through this phenomenon-based investigation to identify and explain the difference between natural materials and synthetic materials. Students use early ceramics as a case study to evaluate how this early synthetic material impacted the lives of people who used them.

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Social Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
Natural History Museum of Utah
Date Added:
04/27/2022
Branches of Government
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This page provides a basic overview of each branch of government. Included are their roles and what makes up the branch.

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Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
USAGov
Date Added:
03/22/2024
Children on the Homefront
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Resource to help students learn about how children were involved in the war effort in the 1940s. Includes propaganda posters with students creating their own. Some patriotic songs are provided that were taught in schools and look at ways to compare contributions during the war to modern times.

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Date Added:
03/22/2024
Citizen Activists Derail MX Missile System
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This website has both an article and podcast voiceover explaining how citizens of Utah stopped the MX Missile system from being stored in Utah during the height of the Cold War and nuclear testing.

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Social Science
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
Utah Humanities
Date Added:
03/22/2024
Covid 19 Memory Project
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The Covid-19 Memory Project is designed for K-12 students to share their experiences during this unique time in our history. Student responses will become part of a permanent historical collection retained by Utah Division of State History that will help future generations learn about what life was like during the Covid-19 pandemic in Utah.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Utah State Division of History
Date Added:
03/22/2024
Create an "in-flight" video exploring a historical event
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This 2-hour lesson plan helps students create a video to be used as an inflight video showing a historical event they are traveling to in the past. In this lesson, students document locations, historical figures, historical landmarks, and social conditions of that time. Because Adobe Premiere Rush enables professional video editing, this lesson empowers students to create a documentary-style video.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Adobe
Author:
Claudio Zavala Jr.
Date Added:
09/15/2022
Crime in Utah Primary Source Set
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This resource is from the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. This primary source set contains information on infamous criminals and crimes, including Joe Hill, Butch Cassidy, John D. Lee and the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and lesser-known cases that have been largely forgotten.

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Primary Source
Provider:
Utah Division of Archives and Records Service
Date Added:
11/09/2023
Downwinders of Utah Archive
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This website created by the University of Utah contains an interactive timeline of Downwinders of Utah. This timeline includes several news articles and memos sent out by the Atomic Energy Commission about the nuclear testing occurring in the Nevada Desert. This timeline goes from the time of WWII until 2015.

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Social Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
University of Utah
Date Added:
03/22/2024
Downwinders of Utah Archive: Oral Interviews
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This website created by the University of Utah contains several oral histories of those who were "Downwinders". Each history is between 3 and 20 minutes long and talk about poeple's lives prior, during, and after the nuclear testing.

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
University of Utah
Date Added:
03/22/2024
Facts and Case Summary-- Korematsu v. United States
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The Supreme Court website provides a brief background, ruling, and reopening the case of Korematsu v. US. This is helpful for students or teachers to have a basic understanding of the course case without reading through the entire case study, brief, and opinions. It helps explain the ruling and its overturning year later.

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
United States Courts
Date Added:
03/22/2024
Farewell to Manzanar: Japanese Internment Camps During World War II
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Resource contains activity prompts, essay topics and ideas, and other lesson activities that coincide with reading Farewell to Manzanar and learning about Japanese Internment

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Date Added:
03/22/2024