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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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Inventions and Transportation

Joll, Eileen
  • Lesson Plan
  • 6-8
  • History, Science and Technology
  • Next Generation Science
  • Invention, Knowledge, Resources, Science, Technology, Transportation
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Inventions That Changed the World

VanSickle, Shelby
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • Economics, History, Science and Technology
  • Band-Aids, Economics, Inventions, Marketing
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Inventions Throughout History

Kumer, Laken; Wagner, Emily; Wyllie, Jordan
  • Unit
  • Pre K-2
  • English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
  • PA State
  • Airplane, Automobile, Brothers, Inventions, Telephone, Wright
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Investigating Slavery

Dillow, Zachary
  • Lesson Plan
  • 6-8
  • History
  • PA State
  • Plantation, Slave Trade, Slavery
Sanborn Fire Map of Valparaiso, Indiana

Iris Baughman Diary Escape Room

Suzanne Walker
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
C3 photo

Is Freedom Free?

C3 Teachers Development
  • C3 Inquiry
  • 6-8
  • Cultural Studies, History
  • C3 Framework
  • Douglass, Emancipation , Freedom
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Is it Permissible for One Nation to take Over the Actions of Another?

Deal, Larry; Wozmak, Michael
  • Lesson Plan
  • 9-12
  • History
  • C3 , NH State
  • Colonization, Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Intervention , McKinley, Nation, Roosevelt, Spanish American War, Territory
C3 photo

Is Peace in the Middle East Possible?

John Lee
  • C3 Inquiry
  • 9-12
  • Cultural Studies, Geography, History
  • C3 Framework
  • Conflict, Middle East
Primary Source Set Picture

It needed to be done: The responsibility of American women in the manufacturing industry during WWII

Urtz, Matt
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Airplane, Factory, Homefront, Industry, Labor, Poster, Women, Work Force, WWII
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Japanese Internment During WWII

Amy Bickford
  • Lesson Plan
  • 6-8
  • Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Equity, Fairness, Internment, Persuasive Essay, World War II, Writing
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Jim Crow Laws and the Effect of the Laws in America

Jacobsen, Morgan
  • Lesson Plan
  • 3-5
  • History
  • VA State
  • African American, Degregation, Discrimination, Jim Crow , Law, Teconstruction
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John Brown A Hero?

Pohodich, Amy
  • Lesson Plan
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, WV State
  • Abolition, Brown, Civil War, Hero, Obituary, Slavery
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Keeping Quilt

Warzinski, Julia
  • Activity
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Culture, Immigrant, New York, Quilt, Russia
KCA

KidCitizen

Muzzy Lane
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • 3-5
  • Civics and Government, History
  • App, Citizenship, Civics
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Killer Angels

Divelbliss, David
  • Lesson Plan
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Civil War, Gettysburg, Killer Angels, Lee, Pickett, Turning Point
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Labor Day: Just Closing the Pool?

Mihok, Alys
  • Lesson Plan
  • Pre K-2
  • Cultural Studies, History
  • PA State
  • Holiday, Labor Day, Parade, Summer
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Langston Hughes' Drafts of "Ballad of Booker T." Exploring the Creative Process

Library of Congress
  • Activity
  • 9-12
  • Arts and Music, English/Language Arts
  • Common Core, NCSS
  • Analysis, Ballad, Creative Process, Harlem, Hughes, Manuscripts, Poetry, PSSA, Washington
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Lay of the Land

Pohodich, Amy; Sakai, Scott
  • Lesson Plan
  • 6-8
  • Geography, History
  • PA State
  • Coal, Geography, Industrial, Maps, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pollution, Revolution
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Learning Wright

Coughlin, Kayla; Hein, Ronald; Jackson, Beau
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
  • Common Core, PA State
  • Airplanes, Brothers, Patent, Wright
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Library of Congress: More Than Meets the Eye

Reitz, Christa
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner, Common Core
  • Analyze, Inquiry, Stripling
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Life and Impact of Martin Luther King Jr.

Cowden, Lauren; Limback, Ellen
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, PA State
  • Civil Rights, I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King
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Life Choices of the Suffragettes

McCready, Cheryl
  • Lesson Plan
  • 6-8
  • History
  • PA State
  • 19th Amendment, Catt, Chapman, Equality, Lifestyles, Movement, Suffrage, Suffragette, Women's Rights
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Lights, Camera Action: American Memories at the Library of Congress

Morgan, Jacqueline
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Action, Camera, Lights, Memories, Timeline
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Lincoln's Assassination from a Friend's Diary

TPS
  • Activity
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, NCSS
  • Assassination, Booth, Civil War, Diary, Horation, Lincoln, Nelson, Taft, Washington DC, Wilkes

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