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					Making the Star-Spangled Banner The Flag Maker is a story about Caroline Pickersgill helping her mother, Mary Pickersgill, create the Star-Spangled Banner and her emotions as she sees that the flag has survived the Battle of Baltimore Featured book: The Flag Maker, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti     Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II, Americans of Japanese descent were forced to leave their homes and move to internment camps. What would it be like for your family to have to leave your home and be forced to live far away? Featured book: Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki     A Puerto Rican Carnival Each year the carnival in Ponce, Puerto Rico lasts the whole month of February! Join in the fun by designing a carnival costume, making your own carnival masks, and more! Featured book: Vejigante Masquerador, by Lulu Delacre     Great Women of Our Pasts Explore the history of women in your family through a genealogical study. Create a museum exhibition to show other people what you've discovered! Featured book: Seven Brave Women, by Betsy Hearne     Pueblo Pots Discover the legend of the Native-American Avanyu, then design symbols to decorate your own pot. Featured book: When Clay Sings, by Byrd Baylor     Slave Life and the Underground Railroad Learn about the traditional rice-farming skills African slaves brought to America and discover some of the strategies that slaves used to escape to freedom. Featured book: Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, by Jeanette Winter     Life in a Sod House What was life like on the American Prairie? Use all five senses to imagine what sod house life was like, or try our online Sod House activity! Featured book: Dakota Dugout, by Ann Turner   back to top
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