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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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Teaching with Primary Sources to Engage English Learners in Social Justice‐Oriented Democratic Discussions

Kolb, Andrea
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • Bilingual/ESL, English/Language Arts, History
  • C3, ISTE, Learning Forward, Teaching Tolerance Social Justice
  • Democratic Discussions
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Better or Worse? The Push-Pull Migration Factors in 19th Century America

Wiebe, Glenn; Peckham, Terri
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • Bilingual/ESL, English/Language Arts, History
  • ISTE, KS State
  • Bi-Lingual/ESL, Problem-based Learning
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Exploring Contemporary Life Through the Arts

Lawrence, Salika
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts
  • AASL
  • Art, Compare, Contrast, ESL, Inquiry, PD Activity
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Striving for Educational Equality: Georgia Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers

Sibille, Jena
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • AASL
  • Elementary, General Education
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The Courage to Remember: Holocaust Remembrance Week Unit

Lee, Gorman
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • Civics and Government, Geography, History
  • Common Core, MA History and Social Science
  • European History, Holocaust, Survive, World History
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Past and Present: Homes Then and Now

Haugen, Alicia
  • Unit
  • Pre K-2
  • Geography, History, Science and Technology
  • WV State
  • Chronology, Community, Family, Local History, Model, Past and Present, Timeline, Unit
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Picnic in October

Goldsmith, Jill
  • Activity
  • Pre K-2
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Ellis Island, Immigration, Migrate, October, Picnic, Statue of Liberty
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Technology, Coal Mining and Labor Through 100 Years of American History

Divelbliss, David
  • Lesson Plan
  • 6-8
  • History
  • Common Core, NCSS
  • Coal Mining, Compare, Contrast, Immigration, Industrialization, Labor, Technology, Workers
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Primary Sources of our Lives

Patel, Aruna
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • History
  • ISTE Standards
  • Historian, Inquiry, Lives, Past

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