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Education Place Activity: Go on a Sign Hunt Encourages children to read and use the signs in their neighborhood and school. http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/signs.html

Education Place Activity: Tools of the Trade Encourages children to recall what they have learned about different occupations and their related tools. http://www.eduplace.com/ss/act/memory.html

The Fulton Bag and Cotton Strike: 1914-1915 Resources for teaching about the labor strike conducted by O. Delight Smith at a textile mill in Atlanta, Georgia. Includes activities, worker song lyrics, and background information. [PDF] http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/labor/wnp/wnpdocument/fultonbag/fultonbag.pdf

Heroes and Legends for Kindergarten Collection of ideas and resources for introducing young children to legendary figures in American history. http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webunits/khistory/home.htm

Kindergartners on the Map Helps kindergartners understand what a map is and how it is used. http://www.knowledge.state.va.us/cgi-bin/lesview.cgi?idl=374

People and Cultures Before Columbus Lesson plans, printable handouts, webquests, and evaluation rubrics about Native American cultures. http://www.henderson.k12.ky.us/administration/trt/INTEL.htm