Site Index:
Resources/Collections of Lessons,
World History,
Explorers, Colonies,
Revolutionary War, Native
Americans, 19th Century
(Lewis
and Clark,
War of 1812, Western Expansion,
Slavery, Underground Railroad,
Civil War, Reconstruction,
Child Labor/Industrial Revolution,
Age of Imperialism/Spanish-American War),
Progressive Era, Women's
Rights/Suffrage, Women's History Month,
1900-1940 (WWI,
1920s, Depression and New
Deal), WW II, Holocaust,
Late 40s/U.N./Truman, The 1950s
and Eisenhower, Korean War,
Cold War, Black History Month,
Civil Rights,
MLK, Jr., 1960s,
Vietnam War, 1970s,
1980s, 1990s and Gulf War,
2000+,
Go to the National
Standards for Social Studies,
Go
to World History Lesson Plans and Resources
Resources/Collections of History Lesson Plans
HistorySimulation.com
Engaging and interactive lesson plans. History simulations for the
American Civil Civil War, Imperialism, World War One, World War Two, and
the Cold War.
AP U.S. History
From AP Central.
Smithsonian Learning Lab
A searchable collection of high quality lessons
and resources.
The History Teaching Institute at The Ohio
State University
Many lesson plans for both European and U.S.
history.
Teaching with Historic Places
From the National Registry
of Historic Places. See their chronological index
of available lesson plans.
HMH Free
Teaching Resources
From Houghton-Mifflin. Search by subject and grade.
Mr. Donn's American History
Pages
Excellent source for
lesson plans and resources.
National Archives and Records:
Teaching with Documents Lesson Plans (Docs Teach)
Wonderful teaching activities and lesson plans based on primary
documents in the archives that can be viewed online. Lessons are
correlated to national standards for history, civics, and government.
Library of Congress Lesson Plans
Another site with many terrific
lesson plans. Organized by topic or search their site.
National History Day
Teaching resources from the National History Day Program.
Lesson Plans - American History
From the
N.Y. Times Learning Network.
Women in World History Curriculum
An interactive site with
lesson plans and resources documenting women's history.
A Curriculum
of United States Labor History for Teachers
Lesson ideas and
handouts organized chronologically.
Oral History and Social History
This lesson
presents social history content and topics through the voices of
ordinary people. It draws on primary sources from the American Memory
Collection, American Life Histories, 1936-1940.
The American Dream
Investigate the American
dream with this online lesson.
Children's' Literature and U.S. History
Good source for lesson plans and children's books integrating literature
and history.
History Channel Home Page
American Educational History: A Hypertext Timeline
An extensive timeline with an associated lesson plan.
The History Place
An excellent resource.
HyperHistory Online
Another excellent history resource.
Eye Witness to History
A well-indexed collection of first-hand accounts (diaries, newspaper
interviews, etc.) of historical events. An excellent resource for
history lesson plans.
Today in History
Lists events that happened
on every date of the year. Great way to start your class!!
Black
History Pages.
Library of
Congress
Access historical documents from the
Library of Congress.
Explorers (Columbus, etc.) Lesson Plans and Resources
Land-Ho-Early-Exploration-and-Settlement-of-the-Americas
A 1st-grade unit in pdf
format.
1492: An
Ongoing Voyage
An on-line exhibit from the Library of Congress. See also
Exploration and Explorers for more lesson plans from the Library of
Congress.
Christopher Columbus
A lesson plan from a
Native
American Unit.
Why Do We Still Celebrate Columbus Day?
A middle school lesson plan.
New World
Explorers
Lesson plans and activities from
Mr. Donn.
Vikings in Vinland
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from the NY Times Learning Network.
Viking Discoveries
A high school lesson plan from Discovery
Education.
Evaluating the Validity of Information - Did the Chinese Discover
America in 1421?
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.
Colonial
America Lesson Plans
U,
S. History, Colonial America 1600 - 1776
Many ideas and book suggestions from Carol Hurst's Children's
Literature Site.
The Pilgrim
Story
A lesson plan from C-Span Classroom. See also
Mayflower History,
and Plimoth Plantation.
Other lesson plans about pilgrims
available on the Web include
Packing the Pilgrim’s Trunk: Personalizing History in the Elementary
Classroom
(K--2) and
Pilgrim Projects
(teaching ideas from Education World). For Thanksgiving lesson
plans and units, go to
Holiday Lesson Plans.
Colonial
Williamsburg
Take an electronic field trip and experience
colonial life. Click on
Education
to find the electronic field trips as well as teacher resources.
How America Began: The Founding of the Thirteen Colonies
A unit for third grade. See also
Life in the Southern Colonies for another 3rd-grade unit from Core
Knowledge. For background information, go to
Colonial
Timeline and
13 Originals.
Jamestown
Teaching Material
From Virtual Jamestown.
The Salem Witch Trials
A lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Ben Franklin
A teacher's guide from PBS. See also
Ben Franklin for a lesson plan from Discovery Education.
The Betsy Ross Story: Truth or Legend?
A
lesson plan from Education World. See also
Betsy Ross Home
Page.
The French and Indian War
Curriculum materials from Fort Necessity National Battlefield.
See also
French
and Indian War.
American Revolution Lesson Plans
Join
the Revolution! American Revolution Lesson Plans and Activities
Lesson ideas from Education World.
Boston Tea Party Took Place in 1773
A lesson plan for
grades 7-12 from Read-Write-Think.
The American Revolution and the Enlightenment
A 9th-grade lesson
plan from HTI of Ohio State University. See also
Espionage in the American Revolution.
Images of the American Revolution
A web-based lesson plan from the National Archives and Records
Administration.
The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from the Library of Congress. See also
The Declaration of Independence: Created Equal? for another lesson
from this resource.
Mount Vernon Educational Resources
Excellent site for
information and lesson plans about George Washington.
Becoming George Washington:
Unit 1
Five units for grades 4-6 from the
National Park Service. This link takes to to unit 1. See also
Unit 2,
Unit3,
Unit 4, and
Unit 5.
George Washington: A National Treasure
A Teacher Guide with nine lesson plans as well as many resources.
George Washington:
First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen
A unit for grades 9-12 from the Library of
Congress.
George Washington: The Precedent President
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.
Launching the New United States Navy
A lesson plan from the National Archives using historical documents
related to the beginnings of the U.S. Navy immediately following the
Revolutionary War.
Key Constitutional Concepts – Creating a Constitution
A lesson
plan for grades 9-12.
Observing Constitution Day
A lesson plan using online documents
from the National Archives.
The U.S. Constitution: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the
United States
A middle or high school unit
from The Library of Congress.
See also
The Constitution: Drafting a More Perfect Union.
The United States Constitution and Selected Amendments
A unit
for grades 6-8 in which students learn and write essays about the origin
and history of the Constitution
and its amendments as well as the Declaration of Independence and
Bill of Rights.
Thomas Jefferson
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Discovery Education.
Monticello: For
Educators
Resources from Monticello.
Native American Lesson Plans and Units
To find resources for Native American languages,
click here.
November is National American Indian Heritage Month
Resources and lesson plans from
Read-Write-Think.
Native American in
Olden Times
A long list of Native American lessons and units from
Mr. Donn's site. For more information on specific American Indian
tribes, go to the
American Indian
Tribal Directory.
Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
Lesson ideas in
a variety of subject areas from Education World.
Three Native American Groups
A thematic unit for kindergarten.
Trails of Understanding: The Earliest Immigrants
A
middle-grade lesson plan examining theories about the origins of the
first inhabitants of North America.
Earliest Americans and Their Environments.
A 3rd-grad
lesson. For
background information, go to
Jeffers Petroglyphs,
and Lake
Agassiz: The Ultimate Fishing Spot?
Hunting Bison with Bows and Arrows
A "primary source" lesson plan
from History Colorado for grades 3/4. For another lesson from this
source, see also
Indians and Whites: The Sand Creek Massacre.
Not Indians, Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
A lesson
plan for grades 3-5 involving the use of primary documents. See also
Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
Anishinaabe - Ojibwe - Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation
Another lesson plan for grades 3-5.
The Trail of Tears and the forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation
A lesson plan from the National Park Service's Teaching with Historic
Places.
Revisiting Pocahontas
A middle-grade or high school unit in which students engage in a
critique of the historical and cultural accuracy of the Walt Disney
film, "Pocahontas."
Sioux
Treaty of 1868
A secondary lesson plan using historic documents from the National
Archives and Records Administration.
American Indians and the Natural
World: North, South, East. West
An excellent resource from the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Odin's Castle: The
Native Americans
Another excellent resource with a great deal of
information.
For other Native American
resources, go to the
Multicultural
Page.
19th Century Lesson Plans (Including lesson plans on
Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark,
Western Expansion, War of 1812,
Slavery, the Underground
Railroad, the Civil War,
Reconstruction,
the Industrial Revolution,
and the Spanish-American War)
The
Monticello Classroom
Lesson plans and other resources from
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson.
Accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson
One lesson plan from the
above site.
Lewis and Clark Trail
Excellent source for information on Lewis
and Clark. See their Curriculum Guide.
The Good, Bad, and Ugly: Comparisons and Contrasts of Native American
Culture After the Lewis and Clark Expedition
A lesson plan from the Monticello Digital Classroom.
Lewis and Clark: The Journey West
A lesson planning article and
5 lesson plans from Education World.
Lewis and Clark: A Scientific Journey
A middle-grade lesson plan.
Lewis
and Clark Expedition
A lesson plan from the
National Archives and Records Administration
using historical documents.
Lewis and Clark Barter with the Native Americans
An interesting
lesson plan from Econoedlink.
Lewis and
Clark
Classroom resources from The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
by PBS. See also
Lewis
and Clark: The Journey West.
The Louisiana Purchase:
Real Estate Deal of the Century?
A three-period, middle school lesson plan.
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
A lesson plan from iCivics.
Louisiana
Purchase
A lesson plan from Stanford History Education.
The Louisiana Purchase
A lesson plan from the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History.
War of 1812
A 2nd-grade unit with 6 lesson plans. See also
What Cause the War of 1812? for a lesson plan from the National
Parks Service.
National Monument and Historic Shrine
Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides, including some
about the War of 1812, from the National Park Service.
The War of 1812 and the Star Spangled Banner
A lesson plan from the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Major Events
of the War of 1812
Resource from A Sailors
Life for Me!
A Guide to the War of
1812
This excellent resource from The Library of Congress
compiles links to digital materials related to the War of 1812 that are
available throughout the Library of Congress Web site.
War of 1812 from
History Central
An excellent resource. See also
The War of 1812 Web Site
Anti-Railroad Propaganda Poster: The Growth of Regionalism, 1800-1860
A lesson plan using original documents available online at the National
Archives and Records Administration.
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History
Museum
Photographs, stereoviews, engravings,
maps, and documents illustrating the history of the first
transcontinental railroad.
Westward Expansion: Early Exploration of the West
A 1st-grade
unit.
see
America Moves Out
and
Bewildered but Not Lost - A Trip into Early Exploration of the American
West.
Frontier House
Lesson plans and resources from PBS.
Settling the Western Frontier
An 11th-grade lesson plan.
Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
Another lesson plan from EDSITEment. This one is for grades 3-5.
On the Oregon Trail
One more EDSITEment lesson plan for grades 6-8.
Westward Expansion
Many lesson plans and resources from Mr. Donn.
Ghost Riders
and Rest Stops
An elementary unit on the Pony Express and
overland stagecoach from Utah Centennial Studies.
The Buffalo
War: A Clash of Cultures
A lesson plan for grades 8-12 using the PBS documentary "Buffalo
War" to help students understand how cultures living together may come
into conflict because of their different values.
Buffalo Soldiers
A middle-school lesson plan from Discovery
Education.
Manifest Destiny
Resources for teachers and students from Mr.
Donn.
Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion
A secondary lesson plan
from Ohio State University. See also
Westward Expansion at First Hand: Letters of Anna Ketchum and Ruhamah
Hayes.
Teaching With Documents: The Homestead Act of 1862
A lesson plan from the National Archives.
The U.S. - Mexican War
Lesson plans from PBS.
Manifest Destiny and the U.S. Mexican War: Then and Now
A
lesson plan for grades 6-12 from the above source.
The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
A lesson plan on this treaty which brought an official end to the
Mexican-American War (1846-1848).
Colonial Mexico
Great site for information
on 19th century Mexico.
Gold Rush
Curriculum
Sample lesson plans for a variety of grade levels
from the Oakland Museum of California.
Migration
North to Alaska
A lesson plan using historical documents from
the National Archive on this other gold rush
Slavery Lesson Plans
African American History and Heritage Site
From the U.S.
Department of State, this site offers many resources for
African-American History including a
Teacher Toolkit for
Grades K-12.
See also
African American Mosaic.
Association for the Study of African
American History and Life
The founders of Black History
Month!
Teaching
with Documents: The Amistad Case
From the National Archives
Slavery in America
A unit from Digital History.
Slave Trade
Lesson Plans
Five lesson plans from Storyboard. See also
Economy vs. Humanity: Exploring the Triangle Trade and The Middle
Passage.
The
Slave Dancer
A literature unit for this book by Paula Fox.
Dred
Scott Decision
For more information, see The
Dred Scott Case.
Uncle Tom's Cabin & The Ideology of Slavery
A lesson plan from
The History Teaching Institute at The Ohio
State University.
The Cotton Gin
A lesson plan on Eli Whitney's invention and its
impact from
The History Teaching Institute at The Ohio State University.
A
Debate Against Slavery
One lesson plan from the above unit.
The
Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
A lesson plan in which students
examine transcripts of these famous debates. See also
Lincoln-Douglas Debates Interactive Map Activity.
The
Emancipation
Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps
A high school
lesson plan from ESITEment.
Kentucky's Unmderground Railroad: Passage to Freedom
Resources and suggested activities.
Slavery and the Underground Railroad
A lesson plan for grades
3-5.
Two Tickets to Freedom
A 5th-grade lesson plan based on this
book about the dangerous journey of two fugitive slaves.
The Underground Railroad
A lesson plan from Songs for Teaching
that uses the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd."
Civil War Lesson Plans
Civil
War Traditional Curriculum
Many lesson plans for all grade levels from the
American Battlefield Trust. See also
Civil War Inquiry Curriculum.
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
Lesson plans using these letters.
Lesson 1: Why Fight? Soldiers' Letters
A lesson plan for grades
5-8 from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. See
Lesson 2 and
Lesson 3.
The Civil War Through a Child's Eye
A lesson plan for grades 3-8
from the Library of Congress. See their other
lesson plans
for 1861-1877.
Civil
War
A long list of links to lesson plans from Mr.
Donn.
Civil War
A lesson plan for "low beginning" literacy levels. See also
The Civil War
for a 2nd-grade lesson.
Civil
War Lesson Plans
Several lesson plans for elementary and middle
grade students.
The Civil War
An elaborate unit plan from Small Planet Communications designed
for the upper-elementary grades. It integrates historical fiction
and writing with the study of the Civil war.
Shades of
Gray
A Teacher's Guide. For a literature-based, 4th or 5th-grade unit on
the Civil War, go to
Literature of the U.S. Civil War.
Heroes of the Civil War Era
A 5th-grade lesson plan.
Pink
and Say
This site provides a lesson titled "Acquiring New
Vocabulary through Book Discussion Groups" using this book by
Patricia Polacco.
Also, see
The Civil War,
for a middle-grade unit using trade books.
Civil War
A
5th-grade lesson on the causes of this conflict.
The Civil War: Classroom Activities
Several lesson plans from
PBS.
The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
A
lesson plan using historical documents available via the Internet from
the National Archives.
Life of a Civil War Soldier
A lesson plan for grades 5-12 from
the Tennessee State Museum.
The Valley of the Shadow
Project
This new, improved version of the Valley of the Shadow
Project looks at two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through
the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia
archive of thousands of sources for the period including newspapers,
letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census,
agricultural census, and military records.
Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg
A lesson plan
from the National Park Service for grades 5-12. See also the
Gettysburg History
Information Center.
Toss the Textbook & Use
The Killer Angels to Teach the Civil War
A review and
ideas for teaching with this fabulous book by
Michael
Shaara
about the Battle of Gettysburg. Michael's son,
Jeff Shaara, has also written
several excellent books about the Civil War.
Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
A high school lesson plan from Read-Write-Think.
Gettysburg Address Lesson Plan
A lesson plan from battlefields.org.
The
Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
A lesson plan from the
National Archives and Records Administration. See also
Civil War
Photographs: What Do You See
for a lesson plan from the Library of Congress.
Mid 19th Century
Lesson plans from
Teaching with Historic Places, including many related to the Civil
War.
The
Lincoln-Douglas Debate of 1848
A lesson plan in which students
examine transcripts of these famous debates.
We Must Not be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
A unit
for grades 3-5 that uses archival documents available online. See also
Lincoln Goes to War.
Abraham
Lincoln
Lesson
Plans
From the
Chicago History Museum.
See also
Lincoln's
Undying Words and
Abraham Lincoln-Related Curriculum Resources and Lesson Plans.
Emancipation Proclamation:
Freedom's First Steps
A high school lesson plan. Go to America's Historic Documents to see
the
Proclamation.
Teaching Lincoln's Assassination and Legacy
Lesson plans from Ford's Theatre
Lincoln's Assassination
A lesson plan for grades 5-8.
Reconstruction Lesson Plans
Reconstruction: Inquiry High School Lesson Plan
From American Battlefield.
Reconstruction: A Time of Turbulence
A 5th-grade unit from Core
Knowledge. See also
The Plight of Four Million Newly Emancipated Slaves: Reconstruction
1865-1877
.
Reconstruction
Lesson Plans
Three lesson plans from South Carolina ETV.
After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans in the South
A lesson plan using the Internet to access pamphlets and other
materials, most of which were written by African American authors about
pressing issues of the day.
Racial Violence in America: Lynchings, 1877 to 1920
A lesson plan from The History Teaching Institute
at The Ohio State University.
George Washington Carver
Curriculu materials from the National Park
Service. Scroll down the page to find 5 high school lesson plans.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
A unit on the issues
raised by the celebrated debate between these two famous African
American leaders.
Child Labor/Industrial Revolution
Lesson Plans
A Day in the
Life of Children: Then and Now
An elementary grade lesson plan
comparing children's lives now and in the 19th century.
Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
A lesson plan
for grades 6-8 from Read-Write-Think.
Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
A lesson plan from the National Archives and Records Administration
which uses primary sources.
Child Labor in America
A middle or high school lesson plan. See also
Child Labor and the Building of America.
America's Industrial Revolution
A
high school unit from The Henry Ford.
The Industrial Revolution
A web-based lesson from the History Teaching Institute at Ohio State.
A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers
An
entire curriculum complete with handouts.
The Industrial Revolution and the Progressive Era: 1877-1913
One segment of the above curriculum.
Age of Imperialism/Spanish-American War
Age of
Imperialism Lesson Plan
Excellent resource on 19th century US
expansionism developed by Small Planet. See also their page, "
A Splendid Little War."
Imperialism and Expansion: Part 1
A middle school lesson plan.
See also
Imperialism Vocabulary
and
Imperialism and Expansion: Part 2.
1898-1998: Centennial of the Spanish-American War
Offers concise
information about this conflict as well as links to related sites.
Spanish-American War Timeline
Lesson plans from Arlingtom National Cemetary
The Spanish-American War
An inquiry-based lesson plan from the
Stanford History Education Group.
America Becomes a World Power
A 7th-grade unit.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Curriculum-Based Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans for grades 5-12 from the Theodore Roosevelt
Association.|
Progressive Era Lesson Plans
Progressive Era Project
Several middle and high school lesson plans from Jane Adams Digital Edition.
The
Progressive Era
Several lesson plans for grades 8-12.
Progressive Social Reformers SAC Lesson Plan
A lesson plan from
the Stanford History Education Group.
The Gilded Age
Seven lesson plans from the Stanford History Education Group.
The Muckrakers and the Progressive Era
An interdisciplinary unit
for the 8th grade.
Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912
A lesson plan using documents from the National Archives.
How
did the Progressive Party affect American Society?
A U.S.
History lesson plan from Mr. Donn.
Women's
History/Suffrage Lesson Plans (Scroll down for
Women's History Month Lessons and Resources)
Women, Suffrage, and the 19th Amendment
A lesson plan using
documents available online from the National Archives and Records
Administration.
Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
Another lesson plan using historic documents from
the above site.
Woman Suffrage,
1890-1920
A discussion-based lesson plan for AP History.
Women's
Suffrage: Why the West First?
A lesson plan for grades 6-8. See
also
Voting
Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage.
Women's Suffrage Their Rights and Nothing Less
A high school
lesson plan on the suffrage movement. See also
Women's Suffrage Teacher's Guide, a" Primary
Source Set" from the Library of Congress, and
Woodrow Wilson and the Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reflection.
Women's Suffrage WebQuest for 12th Grade
From the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. See also the Women's
Suffrage Unit from this orgnization.
Susan B. Anthony
A lesson plan from the Academy 4 Social Change. See also
Susan
B. Anthony Activist for a lesson plan from a middle-grade unit
titled
Women of the
Industrial Era.
March is National Women's History Month
A "Calendar Event" from Read-Write-Think.
Women's History Month Lesson Plans and Activities
From Education World.
Women's History Month: Six Lesson Plan Resources for Teachers
From
Edutopia.
1900 to 1940
Turn of the Century Lesson Plans
1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry
An
interdisciplinary lesson plan for grades 10-12 from the Library of
Congress which looks at what life was like at the turn of the century.
Change in Early 20th Century America: Doing the Decades
Another
high school lesson plan from the Library of Congress.
Thomas
Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From New to You
A
lesson plan fro grades 3-8 which examines life in 1900 and how
technology has changed people's lives.
Galveston 1900: Storm of the Century
Resources for
educators including lesson plans.
The Mann Act of 1910
A lesson plan from PBS using the video
"Unforgivable Blackness."
Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912
A lesson plan using documents from the National Archives.
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
A very good resource.
WW I Lesson Plans
The Great War Was Not Great Enough to End All Wars
A 7th-grade
unit from Core Knowledge.
Poetry
of the Great War
A high school lesson plan.
Causes of WWI
A 6th-grade lesson plan.
World War I Resources
Excellent information from the Indiana Department of Education.
World War I
Unit
This 7-lesson unit. For more information on World War I, go to
WorldWarI.com,
an Internet history of the "Great War." Also take a
look at the
WWI Document Archive.
The
Zimmerman Telegram
A lesson plan from the National Archives using online documents to
teach about this infamous telegram that contributed to the U.S. entry
into WWI.
The United States Entry Into World War I
A three-lesson high school unit.
Harry Truman's World War I
Many secondary lesson plans from the
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.
Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans During World War
I
Another lesson plan from the National Archives using primary
sources which are available online. See also
Sow the Seeds of Victory! Posters from the Food Administration During
World War I
for one more lesson plan from this source.
Lesson Plans: The Great War in Global Context
A large number of lesson plans from
The History Teaching Institute at The
Ohio State University.
World War I and Its Aftermath
A high school lesson plan from the
Discovery Education.
Treaty of Versailles Simulation
See also
The
Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
for a high school lesson plan.
1920s Lesson Plans
The 1920s
A lesson plan for U.S. history.
The
Roaring 20s
A high school unit.
From the Great War to the Great Depression
A lesson plan for
grades 6-8 from Discovery Education.
The
Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents
A lesson plan on
prohibition
using primary sources available via the Internet. Though no
suggested grade level is provided, the lesson and supporting documents
would appear to be most appropriate for secondary students.
Scopes Trial Lesson
Plan
A lesson plan Stanford History Education. See also
Historical Thinking Matters: Scopes Trial
for a 5-day lesson plan and
Whose ‘Truth’ Is Out There? for a lesson plan
from the
N.Y. Times. For background information, see
The
Antievolution Crusade of the 1920s and
Clash of Cultures: The Scopes Trial.
1920s Consumer Culture
An AP History lesson plan from HTI.
The Destruction of Black Wall Street: The Tulsa Riot of 1921
Another AP History lesson plan from HTI.
The Automobile
One more lesson plan from HTI.
Great Depression Lesson Plans and New
Deal Lesson Plans
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
A 10th-grade lesson plan
from the Library of Congress. See
Immigration/Migration Today and During the Great Depression
for an
11th-grade lesson plan from this program.
See
more lesson plans on the Great Depression from the LOC.
Using
Primary Sources in the Classroom: The Great Depression Unit
A
6-lesson high school unit.
The Great Depression
Curriculum Unit
Six lesson plans as well as a great
many resources.
The Great Depression and Herbert Hoover
From C-Span.
The Great Depression and the New Deal
An elaborate unit from
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs
A lesson plan
for grades 9-12 examining the
Great Depression
and New Deal programs through an Internet archive
of photographs.
Life
During the Great Depression - Pictures
A lesson plan from
Learning to Give.
Ten Lessons for Teaching About the Great Depression
From
Education World.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There are many lesson plans about FDR, including the one linked
above titled
The Foreign Policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U. S. Entry Into
World War II.
Other similar
lesson plans about FDR include
Documents Related to Churchill and FDR,
FDR's
Fireside Chat on the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program,
and FDR's First Inaugural Address. For a lesson plan that examines the impact
of FDR's disability, see
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Disability: Was He Successful in Concealing
It?
For additional information on FDR, see
Roosevelt
Institute, The FDR Library
and Museum, and
The Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Memorial.
World War II Lesson Plans and Resources
"A
Date Which Will Live in Infamy"
A lesson plan from the National
Archives and Records Administration on Roosevelt's address to the joint
session of Congress following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Internet links provided allow students to actually
listen to the speech.
The Date That Lives in Infamy: Pearl Harbor Lesson Plans
Four
lesson plans from the U.S. Navy Historical Center. For other lesson
plans and resources, see The First Typed Draft of Roosevelt's War Address,
A
Date Which Will Live in Infamy,
and
Remembering Pearl Harbor: The The USS Arizona Memorial.
Documents Related to Churchill and FDR
A lesson plan from the
National Archives and Records Administration.
World War II as Seen Through the Eyes of Children's Literature
An elaborate unit plan.
A
Perspective on World War II
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 in
which students work with students from other countries via the Internet
to compare the WW II information contained in each country's textbooks.
For excellent sources of information on
WW II, see
The National WWII Museum.
Those Who Fought
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from Education World in which students
read interviews of WW II veterans and then interview family or community
members who participated in the war. For oral history resources, see Holocaust
Survivor Oral History Archive
and
What
Did You Do in the War Grandma?
Eleanor's
Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany
Ideas for grades
using Eleanor Garner's book in the classroom.
Powers
of Persuasion--Poster Art of World War II
A lesson plan from the
National Archives.
The Normandy Invasion
A lesson plan for grades 9-12.
Message Drafted by General Eisenhower in Case the D-Day Invasion Failed
A secondary lesson plan using primary sources. See also
D-Day
Message from General Eisenhower to General Marshall.
A Blitz through the Ardennes: Using the Battle of the Bulge to Practice
Reading and Analytical Skills
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 using primary and secondary sources.
The Homefront: America and WWII
A lesson
plan from
The History Teaching Institute at Ohio State.
See also
On the Home
Front
for an additional lesson plan.
World War II
A high school lesson plan in which students
research daily life for women in Britain, the U.S., or Germany during
the war. See also
Women During World War II.
Documents and Photographs Related to Japanese Relocation During World
War II
One more lesson plan regarding Japanese internment. This
one uses historical documents and photographs.
General Patton’s Forgotten Troops: African American Soldiers in World
War II in their Own Words
An excellent lesson plan from
History.com. See also
Pictures of African Americans During World War II.
WW II: The Other
Americans
A multicultural World War II lesson plan I developed
as an example for my students.
Memorandum Regarding the Enlistment of Navajo Indians.
A lesson
plan using documents from the National Archives about the
Code Talkers.
Breaking the Code
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 in which students
learn about cryptology during WW II.
World War II: The Pacific
A high school lesson plan.
Analyzing the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Two secondary lesson plans from the Truman Library. See also
Atomic Bomb and
The Manhattan Project for other lesson plans, as well as
Atomic -Bomb Museum
for information and personal perspectives.
American Diplomacy in World War II
A 4-lesson unit unit.
Nuremberg
Trials Lesson Plan
A high school lesson plan from the Truman Library.
Adolf Hitler: Biography
A concise biography.
See also
Claiming Responsibility: Understanding the Rise and Popularity of Hitler.
Holocaust Lesson Plans and Resources
A Teacher's
Guide to the Holocaust
Student activities and teacher resources for teaching about the
Holocaust .
United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
The link above goes to their many
lesson plans, but their site offers many other resources.
Holocaust Lesson Plans and Curricula
Many lesson plans from the
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center.
Click here
for a Holocaust timeline.
Holocaust Center of Florida
Several learning modules..
Remembering the Holocaust
A middle school unit from Scholastic.
The Holocaust's Legacy
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery Education.
The
Beast Within
An interdisciplinary 9th-grade unit from George Cassutto.
Diary of Anne Frank (Anne
Frank in the World, 1929-1945: Teacher Workbook)
Lesson plans for grades 5-8 for teaching about
Anne Frank and Holocaust-related subjects. See also
Anne
Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands, a lesson plan for grades 6-8;
Ann
Frank: Writer, another middle-grade lesson plan;
Anne Frank
WebQuest, an excellent Internet activity for grades 7-9;
The Truth About Anne
Frank, A 12-lesson unit;
Anne Frank Center U.S.A.,
photographs and
information about Anne's journal and how it survived World War II; and
Remember.org,
a
comprehensive site with images and recollections of survivors, a
teacher's guide, and links.
Late 40s/U.N./Harry Truman
Lesson Plans
Marshall Plan: Teaching with Primary Sources
A PBS lesson plan. See also
Marshall Plan Promotions
and
Marshall Plan: Convince the American People from the Truman Library.
Introduction to the United Nations
A lesson plan from the Global Classroom. See also
The United Nations; who they are and why they have your back; or do
they?
U.S.
Recognition of the State of Israel
A lesson plan using documents
available primary sources online from the National Archives and Records
Administration.
The
Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
An high school lesson plan. A
lesson plan from a unit titled
Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954: Witch Hunt or Red Menace?
Truman Presidential Library and
Mueum
See their featured lesson plans.
Tales of Truman's Travels Fifty Years Ago
A 3rd-grade unit from
the above site.
Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman
A lesson plan using primary sources.
The Foreign Policies of Harry S. Truman
A high school unit from
the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Harry Truman and Independence, Missouri: "This is Where I Belong"
A lesson plan from The National Park Service.
1948 -
Berlin Airlift
Lesson plans from the Harry S. Truman
Library and Museum.
60th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift 2008/2009: "Friends Always"
Teacher Kit
From the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The 1950s Lesson Plans and Eisenhower Lesson Plans
Baby Boom
and the Culture of the 1950's
A high school lesson plan. See also
High School Conformity in the 1950's.
1950s and 1960s Suburban America
A Classroom Activity Guide for
grades 5-12 complete with lessons, worksheets, and primary source
material.
Levittown, automobiles, and Cultures of the 1950s
A high school
lesson plan.
Women in the 1950s
A lesson plan from the Stanford History
Education Group.
Advertising in
the 1950s
A WebQuest.
The Polio
History Pages
No unit on the 1950s would be complete without some mention of
polio, the near hysteria caused by the epidemics of the early 1950s, and
the euphoria that greeted the development of the Salk vaccine. Drawing
from my book, Polio's Legacy: An Oral History,
this site provides excerpts from polio narratives, a polio
timeline, a WebQuest, and information about the disease, its history,
and late effects.
Dr. Janus Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914
A "Calendar Activity" from Read-Write-Think.
The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy
A high school lesson plan
from a unit titled,
Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954: Witch Hunt or Red Menace?
Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman
A lesson plan using primary sources.
Photographs and Pamphlet about Nuclear Fallout
Another lesson plan using historic documents.
Memorandum of a Conference with President Eisenhower after Sputnik
One more lesson plan using primary sources. See also
Space Milestones
for a middle
school lesson plan,
Sputnik Lesson Plan
for a 10th-grade activity. If you want to show a couple of brief
video clips in class, take a look at these from YouTube:
Launch of Sputnik
and Vanguard
(Flopnik).
Eisenhower: The Contentious 1950s
A lesson plan for grades 9-12.
See also
Eisenhower: The Cold War
for another high school lesson plan.
Advertising in
the 1950s
A WebQuest. See also
1950s WebQuest.
Eisenhower Presidential
Library and Museum
Excellent source for information about
Eisenhower.
Korean War Lesson Plans
The United States Enters the Korean Conflict
A lesson plan using
primary sources. See also
America's Entry into the Korean War.
Korean War Propoganda
A lesson plan from the Korea Society. See
also
The Outbreak of the Korean War and
Korean War: A Three Week Unit for additional lessons from this
source.
Remembering the
Forgotten War
A high school lesson plan.
The Korean War
A lesson plan for grades 9-12 from Discovery Education. See also
The Korean War for a lesson plan from the Truman Library..
Cold War Conflict in Korea: 'The Powerful and Powerless United Nations'
A secondary-level lesson plan from
The History Teaching Institute at The Ohio State
University.
The Korean War through the Perspectives of Political Cartoons and
Political Posters
Another secondary lesson plan, this one from
the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.
Cold
War Lesson Plans and Resources
Origins of the Cold War
A high school unit.
Cold War
Sis
lesson plans from the Stanford History Education Group.
Photographs and Pamphlet about Nuclear Fallout
A lesson plan
from the National Archives and Records Administration which uses primary
sources.
The Cold War
An 8th-grade unit from Core Knowledge. See also
Hitting the Cold War from All the Angles and
The Cold War: Solving the Mystery of History with Voices on Vinyl
for other units from unit from this same organization.
Cold War WebQuest
Fpr high school students.
Candy Bomber
Activity: The Berlin Airlift
From the Truman Library and Museum.
See also
The
Berlin Airlift,
Pictures of the Berlin Airlift: Primary Sources (Photos and Cartoons) to
Motivate Learning.
Ideological Foundations of the Cold War
Several more lesson plans
from the Truman Library and Museum. See also
Cold War in Asia.
The Cold War and Beyond
A high school lesson plan from
Discovery Education.
New
Approaches to Old Cold War Lesson Plans
An interesting article.
Cold War International History Project
An excellent
resource. See also the
Cold War Museum.
Black History Month Lesson Plans/Civil Rights Lesson Plans and Resources
For lesson plans on
African
history,
slavery,
or the Underground Railroad,
scroll up or click on the topic titles.
Scroll down the page for
lesson plans for MLK, Jr.
African American
History Month
Resources from the Library of Congress.
African American History and Heritage Site
Many resources for
African-American history including a
Teacher Toolkit for Grades K-12.
See also
Black History Pages.
Association for the Study of African American History and Life
From the
founders of Black History Month, this link takes you to their home page
and provides information for the
2018
Black History Month Theme and the
2019 Black History Month Theme.
Music of African American History
A high school lesson plan.
Teacher's Guide:
Black History Month
Many links from the University of Illinois
Extension
The Civil Rights Movement
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from The Discovery Education. See also
Learning to Respect Each Other for a K-5 lesson and
Civil Rights: An Investigation
for a high school lesson plan.
Teaching with Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
This excellent lesson plan
from the NARA Digital Classroom uses historical documents available on
this site.
American Educational History: A Hypertext Timeline
My favorite
Web project, this annotated, clickable timeline of American educational
history extends from 1607 to the 21st Century. See the accompanying
activity,
American Educational History: What's Most Important?
Teaching
with Documents: The Amistad Case
From the National Archives.
Slavery in America
A teaching/ unit from Digital History.
After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans in the South
A lesson plan using the Internet to access pamphlets and other
materials, most of which were written by African American authors about
pressing issues of the day. See also
Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
for another lesson plan from the same source.
The Life of George Washington Carver
A lesson plan from the National Park Service. See the
Curriculum Materials that accompany the lesson.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
A unit on the issues
raised by the celebrated debate between two famous African American
leaders:
Booker T. Washington
and W. E. B. DuBois.
Harlem Renaissance Retrospective
A lesson plan for 9th grade connecting art forms.
Sojourner Truth
A lesson plan from the Academy 4 Social Change.
Unforgiveable Blackness
Lessons from
PBS about Jack Johnson, the first Black prizefighter.
Segregation: From Jim Crow To Linda Brown
An elaborate lesson involving a study of the famous court case, Plessy
v. Ferguson (1897); a simulation of the Afro-American Council Meeting in
1898 using African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.
P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907; and the creation of a similar meeting
of the Afro-American Council prior to the landmark Brown v. the Board of
Education case in 1954.
Teaching with Documents: Documents Related to Brown versus the Board of
Education
From the National Archives, this lesson
plan uses historical documents available online. See also
Dorothy
Davis, et al, versus County School Board of Prince Edward County,
Virginia
for two more lesson plans using historical documents.
Brown v. Board: Where Are We Now?
Information and teaching
activities from Tolerance.org.
Little Rock
Nine and the Children's Movement
From Teaching Tolerance.
Tuskegee
Tragedy
A WebQuest exploring this exploring this dark medical experiment and
its victims.
Mosaic America: Patterns of Racism
A 7th-grade unit. For other
similar units see
Racism and Nativism in American Political Culture.
NAACP Homepage
Institute for Urban and Minority
Education
Information about teaching
urban and minority students.
Civil Rights Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans and
Resources for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A long list of lesson
plans from my History Page.
Travel Places
of the Civil Rights Movement
From the National Register of
Historic Places, this page would be an excellent resource for putting
together a WebQuest on the civil rights movement.
The Civil Rights Movement
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from The Discovery Channel School. See also
Learning to Respect Each Other for a K-5 lesson and
Civil Rights: An Investigation
for a high school lesson plan.
Teaching with Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
This excellent lesson plan
from the NARA Digital Classroom uses historical documents available on
this site.
Little Rock
9, Integration 0?
A collaborative WebQuest on integration in
schools. See also
Little Rock Nine: Activities.
Tuskegee
Tragedy
A WebQuest exploring this exploring this dark medical experiment and
its victims.
Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
Information, documents,
and lesson plans about Jackie Robinson's role in the Civil Rights
movement. Scroll down the page for the lesson plans.
Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education
An excellent lesson plan using historic documents the National
Archives that are available online. See
Order of Argument in the Case, Brown v. Board,
Brown v. Board: What It Means Today,
and
Frontiers in Civil Rights: Dorothy E. Davis et al versus County School
Board. of Prince Edward County, VA.|
A Time for Justice
A teacher's guide with five lesson plans on the Civil Rights Movement.
An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of Rosa
Parks
A lesson plan about Rosa Parks using historic documents. See also
Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights.
Before Rosa Parks: Frances Watkins Harper
A high school lesson plan from Tolerance.org. See also
Before Rosa Parks: Ida B. Wells.
National Civil Rights Museum
See their Educator Resources.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lesson
Plans and Resources
Martin Luther King 's "I Have a Dream Speech."
No lesson on Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is complete without reference to this speech
from August 28, 1963. The above site offers a transcription as well as
an audio file. See also the
Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
for other speeches, sermons, papers, and articles.
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Racial and Social Justice: A
Curriculum for Empowerment
Lesson plans and teacher guides from the National Park Service.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Three lesson plans for middle school and high school from the Center for
Civic Education.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Me: Identifying with a Hero
A
primary-grade lesson plan from Read-Write-Think.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
A list of lesson plans and links
from Mrs. Donn's pages.
Martin
Luther King Teaches Many Lessons
Lesson plans and links Education
World.
Learning To Respect Each Other
A lesson plan from Discovery
Education for grades K-5.
Court
Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Memphis Sanitation
Workers
Original documents and suggested teaching activities
from the National Archives and Records Administration's Digital
Classroom. Though no suggested grade level is provided, the materials
and activities seem appropriate for grades 7-12.
1960s Lesson Plans (Including Kennedy and Johnson)
The
Sixties : For Teachers
Two units from PBS.
Counterculture in the 1960s
A high school lesson plan.
Turbulent Times of the 60s
A unit for grades 7/8.
The Turbulent 60s: Youth Counterculture and Activism
A U.S. lesson plan intended to cover 6 class periods.
Kennedy Years Unit
Eighth-grade unit adapted for inclusion of special education
students. See
John F.
Kennedy
for an intermediate-grade lesson plan.
Life
of John F. Kennedy
Information from the JFK Library and Museum.
See their Curricular Resources which include
Why Choose the Moon?
and
The President's Desk: A Resource Guide for Teachers: Grades 4-12.
Founding Documents of the Peace Corps
Background information and
a lesson plan using original documents from the National Archives.
The Sixth Floor Museum
Lesson plans for all grade levels
including
The State of Texas v. Lee Harvey Oswald: A "What If?" Mock Trial.
Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
A 6th-grade lesson plan.
Flash Points: Searching for Modern Lessons in the Cuban Missile Crisis
A lesson plan from the NY Times.
Race to the Moon!
A lesson plan for grades 2-5.
1969, the First Human Walked on the Moon
A
high school activity from Read-Write-Think.
The John F. Kennedy
Assassination Home Page
The 1965
Immigration Act and the Myth of the Model Minority
A lesson plan about the Immigration Act of 1965 for grades
10-12. See also
50 Years On, The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to
Reshape America.
Lynden B. Johnson: The 36th President
A high
school lesson plan from the Discovery Education.
Vietnam War Lesson
Plans
The National Vietnam War
Museum
Vietnam
Passage Teacher's Guide
From the PBS
program which looked at the war from the Vietnamese perspective.
The Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War
A lesson plan from the
The History Teaching Institute at The
Ohio State University.
Opposing Views on the Vietnam War
A high school lesson plan.
Against the War
Not a lesson plan, but a novel available as a free pdf document,
Against the War follows the lives of four Minnesotans during the
Vitnam war.
"It is a thoroughly documented study of the Vietnam War generation with
many accurate descriptions of historical events that took place in the
years 1967-1971, and with many links to websites that provided this
information."
It could be an excellent supplement to your Vietnam War unit. The
novel is also available on public domain websites including World Public
Library, Gutenburg, and Internet Archive.
The
Wall that Inspires Letters to Veterans
A lesson plan from
Education World in which students learn about the Vietnam War by
responding to the words, illustrations, and symbolism in Eve Bunting's
The Wall.
Vietnam
War - Liberty - Theme Park
Links to information and activities to
learn about the war.
Mapping Your States Role in the Vietnam War
A lesson plan from
Education World.
The
War in Vietnam - A Story in Photographs
A lesson plan using
photos available online from the National Archives and Records
Administration's Digital Classroom.
1968: Year of Social Change and Turning Point in Vietnam and the U.S.
An 11th-grade lesson plan.
Kent State
and Vietnam War Protest
A 10th-grade lesson plan.
1970s Lesson Plans
Kent State
and Vietnam War Protest
A 10th-grade lesson plan.
White House Scandals
A high school lesson plan comparing the events of Watergate to
other infamous White House scandals
Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution
A lesson
plan utilizing documents available online from the National Archives and
Records Administration's Digital Classroom.
Letter from House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to President Richard M.
Nixon
A lesson plan using historical documents
from the National Archives.
For background information on Richard
Nixon, see Richard M. Nixon.
Watergate
A secondary lesson plan.
Watergate.com
Links, news archive, discussion
board, etc.
Roe v. Wade (1973)
A lesson plan from the Bill of Rights
Institute. See also
Revisiting Roe v. Wade.
Carter as President and Ex-President
A lesson plan for grades 6-8 from The Discovery Channel School.
See also
Iran
Hostage Crisis for another lesson plan about this event from the
Carter years.
The Carter Center
Information about President Jimmy Carter and his recent activities.
1980s Lesson Plans
Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S. History of the
1980s
A lesson planning article from Education
World.
The Early
1980s: A Tough Time for Home Builders and Mortgage Bankers
A
Web-based lesson plan from EonEdLink.
Balancing Budgets: from Reagan to Today
A high school lesson
plan from The Discovery Education.
Ronald
Reagan on Reducing the Size of Government
A lesson plan from the
Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History. You will have to register to view the lesson.
Ronald Reagan and the Constitution
Three lesson plans for a
variety of grade levels from The Center for Civic Education.
Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library and Museum
Includes biographies of Ronald
and Nancy Reagan as well as other information. See also the curriculum materials at Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and
Library.
The Cold War and Beyond
A high school lesson plan exploring the end of the cold war.
The Berlin Wall - Lesson Plan 3
See also
Art and the Berlin Wall,
From Concrete to Memory: Scrapbooking the Berlin Wall, and
The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989.
Making the
History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
Information and teaching modules from German Historical Institute.
1990s Lesson Plans and Gulf War
Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S, History of the 1990s
From Education World
George H. W. Bush
From Lessons on American Presidents.
The Great Depression and the 1990s
A unit for grades 7-11.
Tax Reform in the 1990s and 2000s
A lesson plan from the IRS!
Tactics in the Persian Gulf: From Diplomacy to Force
A lesson plan from the
NY Times.
Operation Desert
Storm: Ten Years After
Good source for information.
Exploring the Middle East: Hands-On Approaches
A unit from the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
William J. Clinton
Presidential Library and Museum
Good source for information on
the Clinton presidency.
Commander in Chief: Bill Clinton: Teacher’s Guide
Lessons
based on the video from Discovery Education.
The Clinton Impeachment
A high school lesson plan.
Bill Clinton
Activities from Lessons on American Presidents.
2000 and Counting
George W. Bush, Our 43rd President
An activity from "Like father
Like Son: Presidential Families"
Bush v Gore and the 2000 Presidential Election
A lesson plan from
the Bill of Rights Institute.
9/11 Lesson Plans
Lesson plans and teaching guides from 9/11 Memorial.
Learning from the Challenges of Our Times: Global Security, Terrorism,
and 9/11 in the Classroom
A curriculum guide and
lesson plans from The 4 Action Initiative.
9/11
Materials for Teachers
From the U.S. Department of Education.
9/11
Anniversary Teaching Guide (Updated)
Lesson plans and activities from
Teachable Moment.
9/11 National Day of Service
The Official Site.
New Orleans
& the Gulf Coast Six Months After Katrina
A lesson plan from Teachable Moment,
but please be aware that they have
a decidedly liberal political agenda.
Examining the
Tax Cuts (2011)
One more lesson plan from Teachable Moment.org.
The Current Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(2011)
Unfortunately, these four lesson plans from Teachable Moment could be
pertinent for almost any recent decade!
Center for Middle East Studies
This link takes you to their lesson plans, many of which are related to
current events.
Cold War into Guerilla War
A high school lesson plan about the war on terrorism from The
Discovery Education.
War and Terrorism
Many
lesson plans from the National Council for the Social Studies.
Afghanistan:12 Years of Violence
A high school lesson plan from
the Discovery Education. See also
Postwar
Afghanistan: Problems, Dangers, Costs.
Afghanistan Today: Civil War and Human Rights
A high school lesson plan from the above page.
The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Teaching Resources and Essential
Questions
From the NY Times. See also
Lessons
for War.
The ISIS Threat: Teaching about the Complex War Raging in Iraq and Syria
Teaching ideas from the NY Times.
The Life of the (Tea) Party: Comparing Social Protest
Movements
A lesson plan
from the N.Y. Times Learning Network.
Who Are the 99%? Ways to Teach About Occupy Wall Street
Also from the
N.Y. Times
Learning Network. See also
Occupy Wall Street:
Background and International Context.
Teaching and Learning About the U.S. Debt Crisis and
Credit Downgrade
A lesson plan from the NY
Times. See also
Understanding the Debt Ceiling Debate and Budget Control Act of 2011.
Wealth & Taxes: What's fair?
(2012)
A lesson plan from Teachable Moment that examines what is sure
to be
one of the hottest issues in the
2012 election. See also
Understanding Taxes for a lesson plan from the IRS!
The Effects of the Recession
A lesson plan from
Econedlink.
Donald
Trump
News and resources from PBS News Hour Extra.
President Trump's First 100 Days
A lesson plan for grades 7-12 from PBS News Hour Extra. See also
The Inauguration of a New President: A Lesson Plan on Predicting and
Evaluating the First 100 Days of a Trump White House.
Immigration and the U.S. Policy Debate
Readings and lesson plans from the Choices Program.
Analyzing Trump's Immigration Ban
A lesson plan from the
NY Times.
Analyzing the
Second House Impeachment Debate of President Trump
A lesson plan from C-Span Classroom.
Teaching about the January 6 Insurrection and Its Impact on U.S.
Democracy
See also
Ultimate Guide to Jan. 6 Hearings: Lesson Plan, Timeline, Key Terms.
The Power of Executive Action and What Trump Can Do After Taking Office
A lesson plan from KQED Learning.
You Be the Judge! Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Acrivity
For grades 9-12.
Teacher's Guide to the
Syria Lesson Toolkit
From I Am Syria.
A Brief History of North Korea
A lesson plan from KQED Learning. See also
A Tale of Two Heavens: Escaping North Korea.
Black Lives Matter, the Killing of George Floyd, and the Long fight for
Racial Justice
A lesson plan from Brown University. See also
Teaching about the George Floyd Murder Trial.
Lesson of the Day: Teaching about 'Critical; Race theory: A Brief
History'
A lesson plan from the NY Times. See also
Teaching about the Critical Race Theory Debate.
The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Several lesson plans from the Choice Program.
The Nuclear Option Vocabulary
Flash cards from Quizlet.
President
Biden's Plans for His Administration
A lesson plan from S-Span Classroom. See also
Joe
Biden.
2024 Election
Night: What to Expect
A lesson plan from C-Span. See also
The
Electoral Process and
Election Central.