Lesson Plans

African American History

African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings	Grade 6-12
After Reconstruction	Grade 9-12
Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson	Grade 9-12
Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown	Grade 6-12
Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record	Grade 6-12

American History

1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry	Grade 9-12
Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades	Grade 9-12

American Indian History

Indian Boarding Schools	Grade 6-12
American Indian Reservation Controversies	Grade 9-12

American Revolution

George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen	Grade 9-12

Arts & Culture

1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry	Grade 9-12
America at the Centennial	Grade 9-12
Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War	Grade 3-8
The Civil War Through a Child's Eye	Grade 3-8
The Evolution of the Book: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis	Grade 3-8
Explorations in American Environmental History	Grade 6-12
Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression	Grade 6-12
The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts	Grade 6-12
The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources from the Roaring Twenties	Grade 9-12
Mark Twain's Hannibal	Grade 6-12
The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress: Taking a Closer Look	Grade 3-8
Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing	Grade 6-12
Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury	Grade 6-12
Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved	Grade 6-8
Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View	Grade 6-12
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective	Grade 6-12

City & Regional History

Child Labor and the Building of America	Grade 9-12
Child Labor in America	Grade 6-12
Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local	Grade 6-12
Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks and Traditions	Grade 9-12
The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts	Grade 6-12
The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People	Grade 6-8
Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand	Grade 6-12
Local History: Mapping My Spot	Grade 3-8
Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage	Grade 3-8
Migration during the Great Depression: Living History	Grade 3-8
Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing	Grade 6-12
Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph	Grade 6-12
Oral History and Social History	Grade 6-12
Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History	Grade 3-8
Recreation Yesterday and Today	Grade 6-12
Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America	Grade 6-12
Twentieth Century Entertainment: When Work is Done	Grade 6-12

Civil War

Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War	Grade 3-8
The Civil War Through a Child's Eye	Grade 3-8
Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record	Grade 6-12
Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies	Grade 6-12

Culture & Folklife

African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings	Grade 6-12
The American Dream	Grade 6-12
American Lives in Two Centuries: What is an American?	Grade 9-12
The American West: Images of Its People	Grade 6-8
Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw	Grade 9-12
Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks and Traditions	Grade 9-12
Family Customs Past and Present: Exploring Cultural Rituals	Grade 6-12
Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression	Grade 6-12
The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community	Grade 6-12
Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History	Grade 3-8
Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders	Grade 6-12
Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts	Grade 3-8
Twentieth Century Entertainment: When Work is Done	Grade 6-12

Discovery and Exploration

Around the World in 1896	Grade 6-8

Government, Law & Politics

The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments	Grade 6-12
The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?	Grade 9-12
The Constitution: Drafting a More Perfect Union	Grade 9-12
The Declaration of Independence: Created Equal?	Grade 9-12
The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation	Grade 6-12
George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen	Grade 9-12
The Great Depression and the 1990's	Grade 9-12
Thomas Jefferson'sLibrary: Making the Case for a National Library	Grade 6-12
The U.S. Constitution: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States	Grade 6-12

Immigration & Ethnic Heritage

The American Dream	Grade 6-12
American Lives in Two Centuries: What is an American?	Grade 9-12
Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases	Grade 9-12
Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades	Grade 9-12
French Canadian Immigrants in New England	Grade 6-8
German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest	Grade 3-8
The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole	Grade 3-8
Immigration: Our Changing Voices	Grade 6-12
Immigration and Oral History	Grade 6-12
Immigration History Firsthand	Grade 6-8
Japanese American Internment	Grade 3-8
Migration during the Great Depression: Living History	Grade 3-8
Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders	Grade 6-12
Westward Expansion: Links to the Past	Grade 6-8

Maps & Geography

Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-1589	Grade 3-8
Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life	Grade 6-8
Journeys West	Grade 6-12
Local History: Mapping My Spot	Grade 3-8
Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage	Grade 3-8
Mark Twain's Hannibal	Grade 6-12
Waldseemuller'sMap: World 1507	Grade 3-8

News, Journalism & Advertising

The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources from the Roaring Twenties	Grade 9-12
The Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking	Grade 6-12

Oral Histories

Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw	Grade 9-12
The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression	Grade 9-12
The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People	Grade 6-8
Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression	Grade 6-12
Immigration and Oral History	Grade 6-12
New Deal Programs: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Grade 9-12
Oral History and Social History	Grade 6-12

Photographs, Prints, and Posters

Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War	Grade 3-8
The Civil War Through a Child's Eye	Grade 3-8
Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved	Grade 6-8

Poetry and Literature

1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry	Grade 9-12
Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression	Grade 6-12
The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts	Grade 6-12
The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources from the Roaring Twenties	Grade 9-12
Mark Twain's Hannibal	Grade 6-12
Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved	Grade 6-8
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective	Grade 6-12

Science, Technology & Business

America at the Centennial	Grade 9-12
Child Labor and the Building of America	Grade 9-12
The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy	Grade 9-12
The Evolution of the Book: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis	Grade 3-8
Explorations in American Environmental History	Grade 6-12
How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market	Grade 3-8
The Huexotzinco Codex	Grade 3-8
Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand	Grade 6-12
Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury	Grade 6-12
Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America	Grade 6-12

Sports, Recreation & Leisure

American Indian Reservation Controversies	Grade 6-12
Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases	Grade 9-12
Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson	Grade 9-12
Recreation Yesterday and Today	Grade 6-12

Women's History

Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph	Grade 6-12
Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes	Grade 3-8
Suffragists and Their Tactics	Grade 6-12
Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies	Grade 6-12
Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less	Grade 6-12

World History & Cultures

Around the World in 1896	Grade 6-8
The Alaska Purchase: Debating the Sale from Russian and U.S. Perspectives	Grade 9-12
The Huexotzinco Codex	Grade 3-8
A Russian Settlement in Alaska: A Community at the Meeting of Frontiers	Grade 9-12
Waldseemuller'sMap: World 1507	Grade 3-8

World War I

World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There?	Grade 6-12

World War II

Japanese American Internment	Grade 3-8

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Three Worlds Meet, Beginnings to 1620

Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-1589	Grade 3-8
The Evolution of the Book: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis	Grade 3-8
The Huexotzinco Codex	Grade 3-8
Waldseemuller'sMap: World 1507	Grade 3-8

The American Revolution: 1763-1783

The Declaration of Independence: Created Equal?	Grade 9-12
The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation	Grade 6-12
George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen	Grade 9-12
Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View	Grade 6-12

The New Nation, 1783-1815

The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments	Grade 6-12
The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?	Grade 9-12
The Constitution: Drafting a More Perfect Union	Grade 9-12
Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life	Grade 6-8
George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen	Grade 9-12
Thomas Jefferson'sLibrary: Making the Case for a National Library	Grade 6-12
The U.S. Constitution: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States	Grade 6-12

National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860

Journeys West	Grade 6-12
Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage	Grade 3-8
A Russian Settlement in Alaska: A Community at the Meeting of Frontiers	Grade 9-12
Westward Expansion: Links to the Past	Grade 6-8

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

After Reconstruction	Grade 9-12
The Alaska Purchase: Debating the Sale from Russian and U.S. Perspectives	Grade 9-12
America at the Centennial	Grade 9-12
Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War	Grade 3-8
The Civil War Through a Child's Eye	Grade 3-8
Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record	Grade 6-12
Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies	Grade 6-12

Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900

1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry	Grade 9-12
African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings	Grade 6-12
After Reconstruction	Grade 9-12
America at the Centennial	Grade 9-12
Around the World in 1896	Grade 6-8
Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases	Grade 9-12
Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw	Grade 9-12
Child Labor in America	Grade 6-12
The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy	Grade 9-12
Explorations in American Environmental History	Grade 6-12
German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest	Grade 3-8
The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole	Grade 3-8
Indian Boarding Schools	Grade 6-12
Journeys West	Grade 6-12
Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand	Grade 6-12
Mark Twain's Hannibal	Grade 6-12
The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress: Taking a Closer Look	Grade 3-8
Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph	Grade 6-12
Reservation Controversies	Grade 9-12
Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America	Grade 6-12
Westward Expansion: Links to the Past	Grade 6-8

Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929

1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry	Grade 9-12
The American West: Images of Its People	Grade 6-8
Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases	Grade 9-12
Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades	Grade 9-12
Child Labor and the Building of America	Grade 9-12
Child Labor in America	Grade 6-12
The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy	Grade 9-12
Explorations in American Environmental History	Grade 6-12
Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression	Grade 6-12
The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources from the Roaring Twenties	Grade 9-12
How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market	Grade 3-8
The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole	Grade 3-8
Immigration and Oral History	Grade 6-12
Immigration History Firsthand	Grade 6-8
Indian Boarding Schools	Grade 6-12
Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand	Grade 6-12
Local History: Mapping My Spot	Grade 3-8
Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing	Grade 6-12
Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury	Grade 6-12
The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community	Grade 6-12
Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph	Grade 6-12
Reservation Controversies	Grade 9-12
Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown	Grade 6-12
Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes	Grade 3-8
Suffragists and Their Tactics	Grade 6-12
Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America	Grade 6-12
The Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking	Grade 6-12
Twentieth Century Entertainment: When Work is Done	Grade 6-12
Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less	Grade 6-12
World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There?	Grade 6-12

Great Depression and WWII, 1929-1945

The American Dream	Grade 6-12
American Indian Reservation Controversies	Grade 6-12
American Lives in Two Centuries: What is an American?	Grade 9-12
The American West: Images of Its People	Grade 6-8
Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson	Grade 9-12
Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades	Grade 9-12
Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local	Grade 6-12
The Evolution of the Book: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis	Grade 3-8
Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks and Traditions	Grade 9-12
Family Customs Past and Present: Exploring Cultural Rituals	Grade 6-12
Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression	Grade 6-12
French Canadian Immigrants in New England	Grade 6-8
The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts	Grade 6-12
The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression	Grade 9-12
The Great Depression and the 1990's	Grade 9-12
The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People	Grade 6-8
Immigration: Our Changing Voices	Grade 6-12
Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression	Grade 6-12
Immigration and Oral History	Grade 6-12
Immigration History Firsthand	Grade 6-8
Japanese American Internment	Grade 3-8
Migration during the Great Depression: Living History	Grade 3-8
Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury	Grade 6-12
New Deal Programs: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Grade 9-12
The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community	Grade 6-12
Oral History and Social History	Grade 6-12
Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History	Grade 3-8
Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders	Grade 6-12
Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved	Grade 6-8
Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts	Grade 3-8
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective	Grade 6-12

Postwar United States, 1945-present

The American Dream	Grade 6-12
Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson	Grade 9-12
Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local	Grade 6-12
Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks and Traditions	Grade 9-12
Family Customs Past and Present: Exploring Cultural Rituals	Grade 6-12
How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market	Grade 3-8
Immigration: Our Changing Voices	Grade 6-12
Local History: Mapping My Spot	Grade 3-8
Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders	Grade 6-12
Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts	Grade 3-8

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry	Grade 9-12
African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings	Grade 6-12
After Reconstruction	Grade 9-12
The Alaska Purchase: Debating the Sale from Russian and U.S. Perspectives	Grade 9-12
America at the Centennial	Grade 9-12
The American Dream	Grade 6-12
American Indian Reservation Controversies	Grade 6-12
American Lives in Two Centuries: What is an American?	Grade 9-12
The American West: Images of Its People	Grade 6-8
Around the World in 1896	Grade 6-8

B

Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases	Grade 9-12
Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson	Grade 9-12
The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments	Grade 6-12
Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw	Grade 9-12

C

Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades	Grade 9-12
Child Labor and the Building of America	Grade 9-12
Child Labor in America	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?	Grade 6-12
Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War	Grade 3-8
The Civil War Through a Child's Eye	Grade 3-8
The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy	Grade 9-12
The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?	Grade 9-12
The Constitution: Drafting a More Perfect Union	Grade 9-12
Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local	Grade 6-12

D

The Declaration of Independence: Created Equal?	Grade 9-12
The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation	Grade 6-12
Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-1589	Grade 3-8

E

The Evolution of the Book: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis	Grade 3-8
Explorations in American Environmental History	Grade 6-12
Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks and Traditions	Grade 9-12

F

Family Customs Past and Present: Exploring Cultural Rituals	Grade 6-12
Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression	Grade 6-12
French Canadian Immigrants in New England	Grade 6-8

G

Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life	Grade 6-8
George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen	Grade 9-12
German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest	Grade 3-8
The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts	Grade 6-12
The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression	Grade 9-12
The Great Depression and the 1990's	Grade 9-12
The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People	Grade 6-8
The Great Gatsby: Primary Sources from the Roaring Twenties	Grade 9-12

H

How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market	Grade 3-8
The Huexotzinco Codex	Grade 3-8

I

The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole	Grade 3-8
Immigration: Our Changing Voices	Grade 6-12
Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression	Grade 6-12
Immigration and Oral History	Grade 6-12
Immigration History Firsthand	Grade 6-8
Indian Boarding Schools	Grade 6-12

J

Japanese American Internment	Grade 3-8
Journeys West	Grade 6-12

L

Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand	Grade 6-12
Local History: Mapping My Spot	Grade 3-8

M

Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage	Grade 3-8
Mark Twain's Hannibal	Grade 6-12
Migration during the Great Depression: Living History	Grade 3-8
The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress: Taking a Closer Look	Grade 3-8
Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing	Grade 6-12

N

Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury	Grade 6-12
New Deal Programs: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Grade 9-12
The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community	Grade 6-12
Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph	Grade 6-12

O

Oral History and Social History	Grade 6-12
Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History	Grade 3-8

P

Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders	Grade 6-12
Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved	Grade 6-8
Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View	Grade 6-12
Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts	Grade 3-8

R

Recreation Yesterday and Today	Grade 6-12
A Russian Settlement in Alaska: A Community at the Meeting of Frontiers	Grade 9-12

S

Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown	Grade 6-12
Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record	Grade 6-12
Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes	Grade 3-8
Suffragists and Their Tactics	Grade 6-12

T

Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America	Grade 6-12
Thomas Jefferson'sLibrary: Making the Case for a National Library	Grade 6-12
The Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking	Grade 6-12
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective	Grade 6-12
Twentieth Century Entertainment: When Work is Done	Grade 6-12

U

The U.S. Constitution: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States	Grade 6-12

W

Waldseemuller'sMap: World 1507	Grade 3-8
Westward Expansion: Links to the Past	Grade 6-8
Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies	Grade 6-12
Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less	Grade 6-12
World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There?	Grade 6-12

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