Library of Congress
Loc: German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest
Why did Germans immigrate to the Upper Midwest in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century? What contributions did they make to the region's cultural heritage? Young scholars use American Memory photographs and documents to answer...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Reisefieber a German Radio Mini Play
This is an online German Radio program for students studying German. It would work best for German 3 or 4 students. It is also recommended this be read over a semester's time period.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: German Food and Eating Customs
Working in small groups, students plan and serve a typical German supper, using the studied vocabulary to express their needs and opinions. Presentations of cultural customs, cultural differences, and menus make efficient use of limited...
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Expression Leads to Repression
An interesting lesson plan from the Wisconsin Historial Society that includes primary source material that shows the anti-German feelings in Wisconsin in World War I.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Greeting Exchange Auf Deutsch
This is a great "first day of first-year German" activity. Using the melody to "Are You Sleeping" introduce students to a typical exchange of greetings. If taught on the first day of school, students will be able to "speak German"...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Body Parts Auf Deutsch
This lesson is good for first-year learners learning the German words for body parts. Using music and the Internet, students will practice vocabulary and pronunciation.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Health Expressions Auf Deutsch
The lyrics to a song provide help for beginner German students to learn and recall some common German health expressions. Since it to the melody of "This is the Song That Never Ends."
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ein Mann Zu Viel
In this lesson designed for second semester of German 3/4, students will read a short story Ein Mann zu Viel, review vocabulary, discuss chapters and then recreate the story by making a video adaptation of the story. Students may alter...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying Clouds
Students work together to learn how to identify clouds. They take pictures, create models, and identify various forms of clouds. Since this is an immersion setting, students also learn the names of the clouds in the German language.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Musical Travels for Children
A series of lesson plans geared toward elementary young scholars. These lessons explore various musical cultures such as Germanic music, Korean songs, Ugandan music and Mexican music. You can use all of the lessons or simply choose which...
PBS
Pbs: Tolerance in Times of Trial
This instructional activity compares the treatment of Japanese-Americans and German-Americans during World War II and the treatment of Arab-Americans after September 11th.
Digital History
Digital History: Isolationists, Internationalists and Lend Lease [Pdf]
Read about the German incursion into France and the Low Countries and the bombing of Great Britain which caused much discussion in the United States. Should the US stay out of affairs in Europe, or intervene to help their long-time ally,...
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Harry Truman & the Potsdam Conference: Student Activity
This activity allows students to see President Truman's perspective at the Potsdam Conference in 1945. Features include overview and firsthand accounts of conference, questions, vocabulary, and photos.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Pennsylvania Colony: The Holy Experiment [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the people who founded the Pennsylvania colony and the role that religion played in shaping it. Includes background information for the teacher. Students explore primary resource readings on the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Immigration
A content-rich site and Library of Congress "Featured Presentation" that looks at the immigration experiences of Americans from many backgrounds and countries. Includes lesson suggestions and resources, online immigration vocabulary...
Read Works
Read Works: Fourth Grade: Two Lesson Unit: Setting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on setting where students use book The Three Brothers: A German Folktale by Carolyn Croll to show how the setting effects the plot of a story, and the book Even More Short and Shivery:...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Hero Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Hero, a story written by Martha Attema, is a historical fiction novel set in Holland during World War II. It centers on a young boy's love for a horse that sustains him after he is separated from his family. The horse is later taken away...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Hermann Hesse
Use this site to broaden your knowledge of Hermann Hesse. This site features links to biographical information and lesson plans and activities for specific works.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Anne Frank Writer
Using this lesson plan, teachers can help young readers not only understand the Holocaust's impact on Jewish people in Germany, but also relate to other young people from distant generations and cultures.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Erich Maria Remarque
Explore this informative site featuring links to lesson plans for the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.
Other
Armstrong Atlantic State University: English Language
Discover more about the history of the English language when you visit this informative site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource.
Other
Rmc Research Corporation: Kristallnacht
This is a reading comprehension lesson plan featuring Kristallnact "Night of the Broken Glass." Middle school students will have an opportunity to learn through this interdisciplinary activity.
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