Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Les. 8: Using Rock as Primary Source Material
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag' by Country Joe McDonald has been played with great success in classrooms for over twenty years. While it conveys literary elements such as theme, point of view, and irony, it also functions as an...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Make Your Own Book of the Dead (Lesson Plan)
At this site from KinderArt students will learn about the Book of the Dead and its importance to Ancient Egyptian culture by creating their own Book of the Dead using colored pencils and scroll paper.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Understanding Poetry of Maya Angelou Through Rap Lyric
By examining the lives and lyrics of popular, positive black female rappers such as Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill, students can trace a direct line back to the inspirational writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Rap lyrics will help explicate...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Women's History Month
This site highlights historic properties listed in the National Register, National Register publications, and National Park units which commemorate the events and people, the designs and achievements that help illustrate the contribution...
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Winter Holiday History "Carol"
A lesson plan that uses holiday music as a way to explore historical events, people, or topics.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: u.s. History and Children's Literature
Integrate curriculum with topics are fully developed with related children's books, and activities dealing with U.S. history.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Lewis and Clark Barter With Native Americans
In this lesson you will define the term barter and give examples of bartering in several different areas. Find out how this system took shape and was useful to Lewis and Clark. This site is extremely informative and contains extension...
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: African Literature Activity
Specific personal site from the University of Pennsylvania geared towards teachers and students, for it offers a lesson plan on Egyptian history and African literature. Brief summary of lesson plan.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Theory of the American Founding: Why Government? (Lesson Plan)
A lesson that considers how the American founders answered the question, What is government? Examines why, from the point of view of the founders, government is not only necessary, but good for human beings.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Sweet Stuff
Art students will learn about visual balance, visual texture, and textural paint by following the example of Wayne Thiebaud, famous for his dreamy 1960s paintings of cakes.
Other
African American Inventors Who've Changed Your Life (Pdf) [Pdf]
Integrated lesson plan focusing on the contributions that African American inventors have made to modern society. Includes rationale, day by day plan, links, and other information.
US National Archives
Nara: National History Day Research
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides helpful tips for utilizing the NARA website for National History Day research.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Ww Ii as Seen Through Children's Literature
This interdisciplinary unit plan relies on children's literature about World War II. Bibliographies for both students and teachers are included as well as a rationale for the unit. Includes links to resources.
Curated OER
Women in World History
Extensive and rich collection of links to site about women in history, lesson plans, and audio bites of professional historians analyzing historical materials.
Curated OER
Writing Table / Oeben
An extremely well put together site full of information about the decorative arts, specifically the French decorative arts from about 1660 to 1790. Contains history, lesson plans, and even an image bank.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Holocaust
This lesson plan places a human face on the Holocaust, by focusing on survivors' testimony, letters and journals from survivors and those who were killed, and poetry.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The French Revolution
The French Revolution challenged political, social and cultural norms in European society. The lesson is broken down into three parts: political, shifts in power, French nationalism.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Cotton Gin
This instructional activity will help learners understand the importance of the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1794.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Industrial Revolution
Explores the development of the textile industry in Great Britain, focusing on the invention of various machines. Also,discusses the social effects of the Industrial Revolution and the connections between the Industrial Revolution and...
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Manhattan Project
Students will discuss the role of technology of the atomic bomb and explore the destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during WWII. Students will then outline some of the social and political changes that resulted from the Manhattan Project.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Declaration of Independence
Lesson plan helps students understand the Declaration of Independence.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Native American History: John Smith and the Powhatan
This instructional activity relates to understanding primary sources to evaluate John Smith's description of the Powhatan Indians.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Age of Reform
This lesson looks at two reform movements anti-slavery and women's rights and their cultural connections among the various reform impulses.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Indian Removal
This lesson looks at the process whereby a policy of assimilation gave way to one of overt removal under President Jackson.
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