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

Multiple Perspectives of World War I

Lee, Alyson

PD Plan
9-12
History
21st Century Learner
Perspective, Photograph, Point of View, Propaganda, Soldier, Troop, World War I, WWI

Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers

Thistle, Gay

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Beard, Civil War, Inauguration, Lincoln, Whiskers

Mr. Lincoln's Boys

Smith, Laurelin

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Civil War, Lincoln, Slavery, Washington DC

Moving Through Primary Sources with the Library of Congress and Thinking Routines

Vanderwall, Annette

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner, Common Core
Analyze, Critical, Library, Photo, Thinking, Visibility

Memorials and Their Meaning

Pohodich, Amy

Lesson Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
Design, Memorials, September 11, Statue of Liberty, Symbols

Martin's Big Words

Kifer, Laura

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Civil Rights, Disobedience, Equality, I Have a Dream, Jim Crow Laws, Martin Luther King , Segregation

Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl

Petri, Gail

Activity
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
African Americans, Civil War, Draft Riots, Girl, Maritcha , New York, Slavery

March of the Civil Rights (The African American Experience)

Baker, Allison; Brooks, Abby ; Flower, Heather

Unit
3-5
Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
PA State
African American, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Interview, Martin Luther King, Movement, Music, Segregation, Song

Mapping Out Ways to Include Geography in the C3 Framework

Bamford, Heidi

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
C3
C3 Framework, Geography, Inquiry, Maps

Map Analysis Across the Curriculum

Cracovaner, Ann

PD Plan
6-8
Arts and Music, Bilingual/ESL
ISTE
Analysis, Geography, Map, Washington DC

Many Faces of Advertising

Sielski, Mary

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
PA State
Advertising, America, Inquiry, Modern, Propaganda, Vintage

Man of Commerce Map

Liddiard, Evan

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Audience, Bias, Commerce, Geography, Inquiry, Map, Point of View, Purpose

Making Connections Through the Use of Primary Sources

Feriano, Patricia

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
19th Amendment, Alice, Connections, Construct, Inquiry, Paul, Suffragette, Stripling, Voting, Women's Rights

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

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

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

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

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

Lay of the Land

Pohodich, Amy; Sakai, Scott

Lesson Plan
6-8
Geography, History
PA State
Coal, Geography, Industrial, Maps, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pollution, Revolution

Keeping Quilt

Warzinski, Julia

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

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

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

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

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

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