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The following free resources may be viewed online or downloaded from the website.
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Moving the Mail West!
Grades 6-9
Primary sources and secondary sources come together in this web curriculum and game to teach the history of communication in the American West. Combine website interactives, online collections, interdisciplinary lesson plans, and flash-based webgame to inspire your students to become active in their historical study of the Pony Express.
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Design It! Giving Voice to America
Grades 4-5
A set of units in this interdisciplinary curriculum brings together history and visual arts through stamps. Students will learn about the history of stamps, the rules for selecting a subject, how to design a stamp, and apply artistic skills in designing their own stamp!
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Stamp Stories
This simple lesson plan explains how teachers can use stamps in the classroom to help assess student knowledge at the end of a unit. The topic is flexible and can be on anything strongly associated with images that have been on stamps. We have two versions available here: one on Lincoln and one on Westward Expansion.
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National History Day 2008-2009
The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies is the theme for this year's National History Day. This website offers students and teachers resources that are useful for historical research projects.
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Victory Mail: Classroom Materials
Grades 2 - 12
These activities provide a creative way to teach writing skills - letter writing for elementary and middle school - and about World War II as well as writing for high school students. In conjunction with the National Postal Museum’s online exhibition Victory Mail along with textbooks and other resources already in use in the classroom, these materials will help students understand aspects of patriotism during wartime, and the significance of personal correspondence by focusing on the efforts made by civilians on the home front during the war. Students will likely find learning about V-Mail an interesting way to engage in writing and social studies lessons.
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Letters From Home: An Exhibit-Building Project for the Advanced ESL Classroom
Grades 8 - Adult
Enrichment materials for the advanced English as a second language (ESL) classroom. Students use letters
to build language and communication skills. Contains activities to illustrate the dynamic power
of personal letters and create an exhibition of letters.
Download Guide (4.79 MB)
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Postal Pack for Elementary School Students
Grades K - 6
Collection of illustrated activity sheets that teach about postal transportation history,
and encourage letter writing and an appreciation of stamps and historic letters.
Download Guide
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Stamp Mural Mosaics
Grades K - 6
Stamps are exciting, educational tools! Using stamps, you can explore other countries, learn about history, and experience art.
The activities on this web page will show you and your students how to use cancelled stamps for a variety of creative projects.
Enter the Stamp Mural Website
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Pen Friends Across the Nation: An Intergenerational Letter Writing Project
Grades 6 - 9
A guide to setting up a writing partnership between classroom students and older adults in the same community.
Use local cultural landmarks to develop an intergenerational letter-writing program.
The project involves an exchange of three letters which concludes in a meeting, if possible.
Download Guide (5.86 MB)
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We Were There: Letters From the Battle Front
Grades 7 - 12
Activity book and resource guide that uses historic letters,
envelopes and commemorative stamps from American wars to engage students in historic analysis.
Download Guide (21.0 MB)
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