Ideas, Activities, and Plans

Lesson Plans, Units, PD Plans, Activities, and Book Backdrops to engage and empower your students.
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Store and Customer Then and Now

Ahlfeld, Kelly

Lesson Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Business, Customer, Customers, Economy, General Store, Store

Striving for Educational Equality: Georgia Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers

Sibille, Jena

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
AASL
Elementary, General Education

Student Reactions to September 11 Attacks on the United States

Lopez, Doreen

Lesson Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
9/11, Children, Historical Fiction, Illustration, September 11, Tragedy

Study of the Brooklyn Bridge and How Technology Impacts Society

Thistle, Gay

Lesson Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
Common Core
Brooklyn Bridge, Engineering, Industrial Revolution, Innovation, Inquiry, New York, Technology

Sugar, Slavery and Salem

Zujewski, MaryAnn

PD Plan
6-8
History
21st Century Learner
Africa, Colony, Europe, Inquiry, New World, Salem, Slavery, Stripling Model, Sugar

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Krocsko, Katie

Activity
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Abolition, Canada, Clara, Freedom, North Star, Ohio River, Quilt, Quilting Codes, Slavery, Underground Railroad

Symbols of the United States

Costolo, Jessica

Unit
Pre K-2
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
American Flag, Bald Eagle, Citizen, Statue of Liberty, Symbols

Taking A Stand With Chemical Weapons

Leatherman, Grace

PD Plan
9-12
Bilingual/ESL, English/Language Arts, History
Learning Forward
Chemical Weapons, Edgewood Arsenal, Military, National History Day, Stand, War

Teaching at the Turn of the 20th Century

Holtz, Jo

PD Plan
9-12
Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner
20th Century, Teaching, Classroom, Photographs, Primary Sources

Teaching Immigration Using Primary Sources

Cole, Nancy

PD Plan
3-5
Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner
Ellis Island, Immigration, Pull Factors, Push Factors, Risks, Statue of Liberty

Teaching Theatre History with Primary Sources

Gee, Aimee

PD Plan
9-12
Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
AASL, ACRL Framework
Federal Theatre Project, History, Primary Sources, Theater

Teaching with Primary Sources to Engage English Learners in Social Justice‐Oriented Democratic Discussions

Kolb, Andrea

PD Plan
9-12
Bilingual/ESL, English/Language Arts, History
C3, ISTE, Learning Forward, Teaching Tolerance Social Justice
Democratic Discussions

Teaching WWI with Primary Sources: Idea Book for Educators

A&E, HISTORY, et al

Activity
Any Grade
Civics and Government, Geography, History

Technology, Coal Mining and Labor Through 100 Years of American History

Divelbliss, David

Lesson Plan
6-8
History
Common Core, NCSS
Coal Mining, Compare, Contrast, Immigration, Industrialization, Labor, Technology, Workers

Thank You, Jackie Robinson

Ritz, Chelsee

Activity
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Baseball, Discrimination, Friendship, Negro Leagues, Race, Robinson

Thanksgiving

Kapp, Ashley; Latimer, Olivia

Unit
Pre K-2
History
Common Core, PA State
Colony, Indians, Mayflower, Native American, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks

Baczkowski, Rebecca

Activity
Pre K-2
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Children, Colony, Family, Indians, Mayflower, Native American, Pilgrim, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving: A Pilgrims Way

Lane, Rebecca; Smith, Laura; Yoder, Hannah

Unit
Pre K-2
English/Language Arts, History
PA State
America, Colonist, English, Mayflower, Pilgrims, Primary Sources, Shipping, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving: Old and New

Crites, Jackie; Holzapfel, Dana

Unit
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
Compare, Contrast, Past, Present, Thanksgiving

That Was Then This Is Now

Csorny, Amy

PD Plan
9-12, Higher Ed
Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts, History
AASL, ISTE
Adolescence, Fiction, Historical Context, Morality, Perception, Perspective, Teens, Timeline

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Library of Congress

Activity
9-12
Arts and Music, History
Analysis, Civil War, Poems, PSSA, Reconstruction, Songs

The Cherokee Removal

Giardina, Greg

Primary Source Set
Any Grade
History
Cherokee, Five Civilized Tribes, Indian, Jackson, Nationalism, Native, Oklahoma, Territory, Trail of Tears, Tribe

The Civil Rights Act: Idea Book for Educators

A&E, Library of Congress, et al

Activity
Any Grade
Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History

The Courage to Remember: Holocaust Remembrance Week Unit

Lee, Gorman

PD Plan
9-12
Civics and Government, Geography, History
Common Core, MA History and Social Science
European History, Holocaust, Survive, World History

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