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Explorations are inquiry-based, interactive modules designed to give students the opportunity to do history: to conduct research, analyze primary sources, and draw their own conclusions. Each Exploration will have a separate tab containing specific teacher materials. Please Note: eXplorations are still under development and being tested. Some units are more complete than others. Eventually all will have a teacher resource section. We have included the names of eXplorations that are not yet live so you can see what is planned. Navigation: To return to this menu, click the word at the top of each page.
Unit 1: Colonization and Revolution
	The World Before 1492 Learn about Zheng He, Cahokia, and Timbuktu			Indentured Servitude and Slavery
	Columbus and the Columbian Exchange Learn about Columbus and his legacy			The Puritans
	Spanish Discovery of the New World			Revolutionary America
	Pocahontas and Squanto			Who Wrote the Constitution?
Unit 2: Pre-Civil War and Civil War
	The Duel: Aaron Burr & Alexander Hamilton			The Alamo
	Spirituals			Indian Removal
	Childhood in Bondage			Pre-Civil War History Through Music
	Children and the Westward Movement			Children and the Civil War
	John Brown: Hero or Terrorist?			Why Did the South Secede?
Unit 3: Turn of the 20th Century
	Late 19th Century West: Images & Realities			Mexican American Songs of Resistence and Pride
	Immigrant Children			Lynching
	Photography as History			World Fairs as History
	Turn of the Century Music as History
Unit 4: Great Depression, World War II, and Post-War
	Children and the Great Depression			Japanese American Internment
	The Rise of the Teenager			Historical Places of the Civil Rights Movement
	Atomic Culture			Casablanca as Wartime Propaganda
	Children and WWII			Timelines as Windows Into History
	The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb			The Vietnam War as History