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Lesson Plans, Units, PD Plans, Activities, and Book Backdrops to engage and empower your students.
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How to Teach with Primary Sources in the Elementary Grades

Knight, Bailey

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
ISTE
Elementary, Primary Source, Inquiry, Historical Context, South Carolina

How Welcoming Have We Been to Immigrants?

Davison, Meghan; Rooker, Sarah

Lesson Plan
6-8
Cultural Studies, History
NY State
Claim, Culture, Evidence, Immigration, Inquiry, Nativism

How Well Do Our Parties Represent Us?

Solomon, Paige

Lesson Plan
9-12
Civics and Government, History
VA State
C3, Democrat, IDM, Inquiry, Political Parties, Republican, Third Party

Human Migrations (Push and Pull Factors)

Crawford, Elizabeth

Lesson Plan
3-5
Cultural Studies, History
NC State
Immigration, Primary Sources, Push Factors, Pull Factors, Human Migration

I Am An American: Learning About Primary Sources Through the Lens of Immigration

Taylor, Courtenay

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner, VA State
American, Angel Island, Ellis Island, Immigrant, Immigration, Lens, Primary Source, Statue of Liberty

Images of Integration: The Story of Desegregating Fulton County (Ga.) Schools after Brown v. Board of Education

Santrock, Mike

PD Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, NCSS
Brown V. Board of Education, Civil Rights, Primary Sources, Segregation

Immigration

Busby, Alison; Danley, Leeann; Mineard, Brittany

Unit
6-8
English/Language Arts, History, Math
Common Core, PA State
Angel Island, Disease, Ellis Island, Graphs, Immigration, Poetry, Research, Unit

Immigration to the United States

Neumann, Kathleen

PD Plan
6-8
History
Common Core
Ellis Island, Europe, Immigrant, Immigration, Pull Factors, Push Factors, Stature of Liberty

Immigration: Past and Present

Kerr, Amy

PD Plan
9-12
History
Common Core
Ellis Island, Europe, Immigrant, Immigration, Inquiry, Pull Factors, Push Factors, Statue of Liberty

Immigration: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Davis, T.R.

Lesson Plan
6-8
Cultural Studies, History
Common Core
Ellis Island, Emigrate, Immigration, Inquiry, Pull Factors, Push Factors

Incorporating Inquiry Into Instruction: Topic - Slavery in Georgia

Oatts, Ashleigh

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner, ISTE
Abolition, Civil War, Freedom, Georgia, Inquiry, Plantation, Primary Source, Slavery

Industrial Revolution - Child Labor Conditions

Sammler, B.

Lesson Plan
6-8
History
NCSS
Breaker Boyes, Child Labor , Employment, Industrial Revolution, Work

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Haddix, Michelle

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Inquire, Inquiry, Minds, Primary Sources

Instructional Change Through Inquiry and Primary Source Content

Kramer, Mariah

PD Plan
Higher Ed, Any Grade
Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner
Girl Scouts, Google, Inquiry, QR Code, Stripling

Interview With Fountain Hughes

TPS

Activity
9-12
History
Common Core, NCSS
African Americans, Baltimore, Civil War, Emancipation, Fountain Hughes, Interview, Oral History, Slavery

Intro to Primary Sources and the LOC Analysis Tool

Brawley, Anna

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Analysis, Inquiry, Primary Sources

Introducing Pre-Service English Teachers to the Library of Congress

Sunday, Jill

PD Plan
Higher Ed
English/Language Arts
Critical Thinking, English, Higher Education, Pre-Service Teachers

Introducing Primary Source Resources - A Scavenger Hunt

Pokalo, Kathryn

PD Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Birthdate, Hometown, Inquiry, Primary Source, Scavenger

Introduction to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Using Primary Sources

Inquiry in the Midwest

External link
Curriculum
Pre K-2, 3-5
Bilingual/ESL, Cultural Studies
CRP, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Culture, Elementary, Video

Introduction to Library of Congress and Southwestern Pennsylvania Map Analysis

Valentino, Maranda

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner
Analysis, Library of Congress, Maps, Primary Sources

Introduction to Primary and Secondary Sources

Queen, Jedda

PD Plan
3-5
Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner
Inquiry, Primary , Secondary, Source

Introduction to Primary Sources

Domingues-Murphy, Deborah

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner, Common Core
American Progress, Chicago, Inquiry, Stripling, Zapata

Introduction to TPS Professional Development

Domingues-Murphy, Deborah

PD Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Diego Rivera, Literacy, Primary Source, Professional Development, Zapata

Introduction to Westward Expansion

Joshua Olive

Unit
6-8
History
PA State
Battle, Expedition, Jackson, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Louisiana Purchase, Madison, Manifest Destiny, Monroe, National Bank, National Treasury, New Orleans, Panic of 1837, Van Buren, War of 1812

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