Curriculum Resources for Lower School Community

All curriculum resources for Third Grade may be accessed below. 

Links to relevant library databases are listed in the first column. 

Scroll down the second column to find resources for Biographies, Asian Immigration, European Immigration, and African American History, including the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights Movement.  

Access ebooks and audiobooks using the resources listed in the third column.  

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.