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Through its collaboration with the Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment Project (CSSAP) of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), its educators selected materials to enrich the topics covered in this unit. This unit is reflective of the Council's advocacy for high-quality curricular materials involving 21st century skills and the Smithsonian's efforts to broaden both its scope and outreach.

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Object: AIDS Quilt
http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/small_exhibition.cfm?key=1267&exkey=143&pagekey=296

Online Exhibition: Whatever Happened to Polio?
http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/

Object: Tuberculosis
http://historywired.si.edu/detail.cfm?ID=41

Invention: Prevention of Cholera and other Water-borne Illness
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/uvwater.html