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Lesson Plans, Units, PD Plans, Activities, and Book Backdrops to engage and empower your students.
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Using the Online Resources of the Library of Congress to Teach Immigration

Gardner, Arlene

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
C3 Framework, Common Core
Analysis, Ellis Island, Immigration, Statue of Liberty

Using The QFT with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress Webinar

Heafner, Tina; Westbrook, Sarah; Canning, Ann; Hanson, Jennifer; TPS Eastern Region

External link
Activity
Any Grade
Civics and Government, History
Strategies, Inquiry-based Learning, Webinar

Utilizing Primary Sources to Bring Historical Events to Life

Yewell Volin, Emily

PD Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
ISTE
Contextualization, Fulton County, Marriage Bar

Utilizing Primary Sources to Explore Japanese Internment

Norris, Christie

PD Plan
9-12
History
NC State
Homefront, Espionage, Executive Order, Internment, Japanese, Korematsu, Roosevelt, World War II, WWII

Veterans

Boscaljon, Lauren; Crile, Alyssa; Henrich, Rachel; Sapic, Stephanie

Unit
Pre K-2
Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
Civil War, Dog Tag, Interview, Letter, Oral History, Soldier, Veterans, War, World War

Veterans Day

Isiminger, Karley

Unit
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
PA State
Poppy, Red Cross, Symbols, Veterans Day, World War I, WWI

Visibly Invisible. Pop culture Media’s Effect on America’s Attitude Toward Native Peoples

Newell, Christopher

PD Plan
9-12
Cultural Studies, History
ISTE
Curtis , Native, Native American, Photography

Voyage of Columbus in His Own Words

Dunlap, Austi

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Columbus, Exploration, Journal, Nina , Pinta, Sailing, Santa Maria

War Game

McCollum, Rebecca

Activity
6-8
History, Science and Technology
Friendship, Soccer, Technology, World War I, WWI

Was Jane Addams a Wonder Woman in History?

Ann Canning

C3 Inquiry
6-8
Cultural Studies, History
C3 Framework
Jane Addams, Pacifist, World Peace

Was President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation to Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House a good idea?

David Hicks

C3 Inquiry
9-12
Cultural Studies, History
C3 Framework
Booker, President , Roosevelt, Washington, White House

Was the Cherokee Removal Fair?

Greg Giardina

C3 Inquiry
6-8
Cultural Studies, History
C3 Framework
Cherokee, Jackson, President, Removal

We Came Through Ellis Island: The Immigrant Adventures of Emma Markowitz

Bartley, Shannon

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Anti-Semitism, Ellis Island, Experience, Immigration, Judaism, Statue of Liberty, Sweatshops

Wee and the Wright Brothers

Ferro, Rachel

Activity
Pre K-2
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Engineering, Flight, Technology, Wright Brothers

Were the Whiskey Rebels Champions of the Common Man or Treasonous Traitors?

Ann Canning; Greg Giardina

C3 Inquiry
9-12
Civics and Government, History
C3 Framework
Bill of Rights, Rebels, Traitors, Whiskey, Whiskey Rebellion

Westward Expansion and the Impact on Native Americans

Kim, Ruth

Lesson Plan
3-5
History
NCSS
Chief Josepf, Custer, Native American, Nez Perce, Reservations, Sitting Bull, Westward Expansion

Westward Expansion: The Transcontinental Railroad

Burns, E

Unit
3-5
English/Language Arts, Geography, History
Common Core, Pennsylvania State
Map, Native American, Perspectives, Point of View, Railroad, Viewpoint, Westward Expansion

What are the Props Behind Propaganda?

Shimko, Jessie

C3 Inquiry
9-12
Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
Cold War, Inquiry, Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda

What Impact did Civil Rights (Segregation) Have on the Current Education System?

Mitchell, Lakisha

Activity
6-8
History
Common Core, NCSS
Civil Rights, Disobedience, Education, Little Rock, School, Segregation, Youth

What is the Importance of Play in a Child's Early Educational Development

Zettl, Ann

PD Plan
3-5
History
21st Century Learner, NCLS
Book, Child, Development, Inquiry, Learn, Leisure, Play

What is the Truth About Pocahontas?

Storcks, Caitlin

Lesson Plan
3-5
History
VA State
Colonization, English, Native Americans, Pocahontas, Smith, Timeline

What Makes Up Our Community

Woodcock, Brittany

Unit
Pre K-2
Economics, Geography, History
Business, Change, Community, Jobs

What Was She Thinking?

TPS

Activity
9-12
Cultural Studies, History
Common Core, NCSS
19th Amendment, Gender, National Association, New York, Opposed, Suffrage, Suffragette, Woman, Women's Rights Movement

What Were the Major Events that led to Tension that Caused the American Civil War?

Irwin, Maddie

Activity
3-5
History
Common Core, NCSS
19th Century, Civil War, Sectionalism, Slavery, States Rights

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