Bible icon Business icon Communication icon Education icon Languages icon Fine arts icon History icon International studies icon Nursing icon Social sciences icon Biology & environmental science icon Chemistry icon Criminal justice icon Engineering icon Exercise science icon Forensics icon Bachelor's to master's icon Math & computer science icon Professional preparation icon Undergraduate minors icon Email icon Facebook icon Twitter icon LinkedIn icon Apple icon Calendar icon Diploma icon Piggy bank icon Students icon

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:
Classroom Implementation Report
PD Activity Report

TPS Files
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

Placing Primary Sources: Using Story Maps to Connect Space, Place, and Time Webinar

Bunin, Chris; Hribar, Georgeanne; TPS Eastern Region; Webinar
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Geography, History
  • Maps, Space, Time, Webinar
Unit-poster.jpg

Out with HIV/AIDS

History UnErased
  • Unit
  • 9-12
  • Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
  • AIDS, Constitution, Disease, HIV, LGBTQ, Policy
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

Women's Suffrage Movement Idea Book for Educators

A&E, HISTORY, et al
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

America: Promised Land Idea Book for Educators

A&E, HISTORY, et al
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Cultural Studies, History
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

Teaching WWI with Primary Sources: Idea Book for Educators

A&E, HISTORY, et al
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, Geography, History
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

This Day in History: Idea Book for Educators

A&E, HISTORY, et al
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Cultural Studies, Economics, History
  • Addiction, Biography, Health, Intervention, Monument
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

The Civil Rights Act: Idea Book for Educators

A&E, Library of Congress, et al
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
PDPlans-primerofteachertraining-BLUE-light.jpg

The Music of World War I

Walker, Ann
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8, 9-12
  • Arts and Music, History
  • AASL, ISTE
  • American, Change, Lyrics, Music, Over There, Purpose, Song, World War I, WWI
PDPlans-primerofteachertraining-BLUE-light.jpg

Book Backdrops and the American Revolution

Ryan, Sharon
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5, 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • AASL, Common Core
  • American Revolution, Boston Tea Party, Children, Historical Fiction, Lexington and Concord, Literature
PDPlans-primerofteachertraining-BLUE-light.jpg

That Was Then This Is Now

Csorny, Amy
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12, Higher Ed
  • Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts, History
  • AASL, ISTE
  • Adolescence, Fiction, Historical Context, Morality, Perception, Perspective, Teens, Timeline
Curriculum map

A Visual Guide to the Cold War

The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
  • Cold War, Soviet Union, United States
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

Look Back See Further: Studying Photographs and Drawing Connections

University of the Arts
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, History
  • Common Core
  • Documentary, Portrait, Promotion, Purpose, Scenes
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

The Power of the Poster

University of the Arts
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Arts and Music, History
  • Common Core
  • Career, Culture, Health, Imagery, WPA
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

A is for Everything: How Typography Shapes our Language and Culture

University of the Arts
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, Science and Technology
  • Common Core
  • Design, Font, Graphic, Gutenberg, Hieroglyhps, Print, Style, Technology, Writing
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

Pictures Worth Reading

University of the Arts
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Arts and Music
  • Common Core
  • Gender, Melting Pot, Neighborhood, Perspective, Rural, Urban
Activities--SnakeGame.jpg

City as a Primary Source

University of the Arts
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, Science and Technology
  • Common Core
  • Architecture, Change, Design, Map, Neighborhood, Urban
Curriculum map

CRP Tenet 3: Students Examine and Critique the Status Quo

Inquiry in the Midwest
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Pre K-2, 3-5
  • Bilingual/ESL, Cultural Studies
  • CRP, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Culture, Elementary, Video
Curriculum map

CRP Tenet 2: Tap Students' Cultural Competence

Inquiry in the Midwest
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Pre K-2, 3-5
  • Bilingual/ESL, Cultural Studies
  • CRP, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Culture, Elementary, Video
Curriculum map

CRP Tenet 1: Motivate Students to Choose Academic Success

Inquiry in the Midwest
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Pre K-2, 3-5
  • Bilingual/ESL, Cultural Studies
  • CRP, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Culture, Elementary, Video
Curriculum map

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
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
Primary Source Set Picture

Children for Hire: What’s Wrong with This Picture?

Taylor, Priscilla
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Child, Federal, Industrial, Labor, Law , Rights, Strike, Work Force, Protection
Primary Source Set Picture

Child Labor Laws Rights and Responsibilities

Nicole Morrow
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Child, Edcuation, Federal, Industrial, Labor, Law, Rights, Work Force
Primary Source Set Picture

The Johnstown Flood

Kline, Stevie ; Mason, Joyce
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Catastrophe, Dam, Disaster, Flood, Great Flood, Johnstown, Reservoir, River, South Fork, Tragedy

Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program
does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.

Citations for TPS Eastern Region Publications