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Ideas, Activities, and Plans

Lesson Plans, Units, PD Plans, Activities, and Book Backdrops to engage and empower your students.
This vetted searchable database of teacher-created resources is your source of inspiration for primary source driven teaching across the curriculum. Find just the right resource and then let us know how you used it:
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Episodes of Misinformation, Sensationalism and Fake News in History - Yellow Journalism

Feldman, Michael
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Fake News, Literacy, Misinformation, News, Sensationalism, Yellow Journalism
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Erie Last Summer of Peace 1941

Henning, Greg
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Erie, Farm Security Administration, Franklin Roosevelt, General Electric, Peace, Summer, World War II
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Esperanza Rising

Franchino, Cathi
  • Activity
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Class Divisions, Esperanza Rising, Farmers, Human Rights, Migrant Workers, Prejudice
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Esperanza Rising: Using Literature as a Backdrop for Inquiry Based Learning in Social Studies

Anderson, Tasha
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Learning Forward
  • Class Divisions, Esperanza Rising, Farmers, Human Rights, Migrant Workers, Prejudice
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Experience of African Americans

Areford, Alyssa; Post, Jaimee; Uram, Paige
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, PA State
  • Civil Rights, Feelings, March, Perspective, Segregation
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Exploring Contemporary Life Through the Arts

Lawrence, Salika
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts
  • AASL
  • Art, Compare, Contrast, ESL, Inquiry, PD Activity
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Exploring Maps of Africa in Study of Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Youngs, Charles
  • Lesson Plan
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Africa, Colonial Period, Conrad, European Imperialism, Geography, Heart of Darkness, Maps, Scramble for Africa
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Exploring the African American Civil Rights Movement in America Through Primary Sources

Hunter, Samantha
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • African American, Civil Rights Movement, NAACP, Print
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Exploring the Alphabet

Baczkowski, Rebecca
  • Lesson Plan
  • Pre K-2
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Alphabet, Children, Writing
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Exploring the World With Maps

Guthrie, Kim
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, ISTE, SC State
  • Analysis, Europe, Exploration, Exploring, Geography, Inquiry, Maps, New World, North America, World
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Facts in Fiction: Using Library of Congress Primary Sources to Enhance Book Discussions

Buckley, Linda
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts
  • ISTE
  • Book , Discussion, Fact, Fiction
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Finding Daddy: A Story of the Great Depression

Haines, Mary Ann
  • Activity
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Daddy, Dust Bowl, Farm, Great Depression, Migrant
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First Thanksgiving

Faust, Brittany; Shultz, Chelsey
  • Unit
  • Pre K-2
  • English/Language Arts, Geography, History
  • PA State
  • Colony, Indian, Mayflower, Native American, Pilgrim, Thanksgiving
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First Thanksgiving

Brockman, Jen; Fox, Katie; Fox, Missy
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • PA State
  • America, Mayflower, Native, Pilgrim, Thanksgiving
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Florida and the Civil War

Nadeau, Kacie
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Cultural Studies, History
  • 21st Century Learner, ISTE, Learning Forward
  • Civil War, Clinch, Florida, Fort, Pickens, St. Augustine
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Found Poetry

Pohodich, Amy
  • Lesson Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, PA State
  • American History, Poetry, Primary Sources
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From Baseball to Rock and Roll

Canning, Ann
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • Cultural Studies, History
  • NCSS, PA State
  • Baseball, Culture, England, Independence, King, Music, Popular Culture, Queen, Rock and Roll, Royalty, Super Bowl, Webquest
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Gettysburg Address

Cooper, Emily
  • Lesson Plan
  • 3-5
  • History
  • NCSS
  • Civil War, Gettysburg Address, Lincoln
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Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message

Taylor, Bethany
  • Activity
  • Pre K-2
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Colonists, Native American, Outdoors, Pilgrims, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving, Tradition
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Glimpse Into America's History

Simatic, Sandy; Tracanna, Suzanna; Udovich, Joey
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, PA State
  • American History, Citizenship, Government, Landmarks, Newsletter, Patriotism, Primary Sources, Scrapbook
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Going To The Source!

Bunin, Chris
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • ISTE
  • Inquiry, Research, Soldier, Source, Teaching, World War I
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Google Community: Librarians as Leaders

Eyer, Patricia
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner, Common Core
  • Community, Google, Inquiry, Leader, Library, Literacy, Network, Social
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Graffiti: A Tool of Communication

Alexander, Silvino
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, Science and Technology
  • PA State
  • Art, Communication, Graffiti, Heiroglyphics, News, Technology
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Grapes of Wrath

Carter, Catherine
  • Activity
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Dust Bowl, Grapes of Wrath, Great Depression, Homeless, Migrant, New Deal

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