Curriculum Resources for Lower School Community

If prompted for username and password, use these credentials:

username: nccs

password: library

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation website

https://www.aiisf.org/

Paper Sons & Daughters - from Angel Island Conservancy

http://angelisland.org/history/united-states-immigration-station-usis/

Angel Island History

http://www.angel-island.com/history.html

The Gold Rush - Digital Public Library Resources

https://dp.la/exhibitions/gold-rush

Gold Rush - PBS American Experience

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/goldrush/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/gold/

Statue of Liberty

https://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm

Ellis Island

https://www.nps.gov/elis/index.htm

Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty

https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/

Ellis Island resources from Scholastic 

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm

U.S. Immigration Centers

https://www.gjenvick.com/#axzz32AWu75lE

Immigrant Life in New York City

https://www.tenement.org/explore/immigration-in-america/

Immigration and Americanization 1880-1930

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/immigration-and-americanization-1880-1930

Underground Railroad Quilt History

http://www.quilthistory.com/ugrrquilts.htm

Underground Railroad - PBS Africans in America Series

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html

National Parks Service Aboard the Underground Railroad Travel Itinerary

https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/

Slave Life - PBS Africans in America Series

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html

Harlem Renaissance - The History Channel

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissance

Harlem Renaissance - from the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, PBS

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_harlem.html

The Civil Rights Era 

From the African American Odyssey (Library of Congress: American Memory Collection)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

The Academy of Achievement brings young leaders face-to-face with the extraordinary visionaries and pioneers who have helped shape our world.

https://achievement.org/

  Sora 

NCCS subscribes to Sora through our membership in the Hudson Valley Library Consortium.  Students can access a wide range of ebooks and audiobooks using their NCCS login credentials.  

For detailed instructions, see the Sora Simplified document linked below.