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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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Primary Source Set Picture

The Great Awakening and the American Revolution

Johnson, Betty
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Awakening, Church, City, Colony, Missionary , New York, Protestant, Reform, Religion
Primary Source Set Picture

The Cherokee Removal

Giardina, Greg
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Cherokee, Five Civilized Tribes, Indian, Jackson, Nationalism, Native, Oklahoma, Territory, Trail of Tears, Tribe
Primary Source Set Picture

Starved Rock as an important landmark in Illinois

May, George
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Colonial, French, La Salle, Illinois, Indian, Landmark, Legend, Native, Ojibwe, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Tribe
Primary Source Set Picture

The Titanic

Ferrier, Cassandra
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • 1800s, Catastrophy, Economic Status, Iceberg, Shipwreck, Wealth
Primary Source Set Picture

The Impact of the Automobile on the Environment

Eyer, Patricia
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Auto, Automobile, Car, Environment, Polution, Transportation, Travel
Primary Source Set Picture

The Role of Political Cartoons in Challenging Propaganda and Highlighting Controversial Issues

Domingues-Murphy, Debbie
  • Primary Source Set
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Cartoon, Controversy, Political, Politics, Propoganda
KCA

KidCitizen

Muzzy Lane
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • 3-5
  • Civics and Government, History
  • App, Citizenship, Civics
Curriculum map

Read.Inquire.Write

Michigan University
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • 6-8
  • History
  • Argument, Social Studies, Writing
Curriculum map

Primary Source Sets

State Historical Society of Iowa
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • IA State
  • Primary Source Set, Video
Curriculum map

Reading Like a Historian

Stanford History Education Group
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Contextualizing, Historical Inquiry, Lessons, Sourcing
Curriculum map

NAfME Teaching with Primary Sources Curriculum Units for the 2014 Music Standards

National Association for Music Education (NAFME)
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • Arts and Music
  • Chorus, Curriculum, Music, Units
Curriculum map

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with Primary Sources

Minnesota Historical Society
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • Cultural Studies, History
  • CRP, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Videos
Curriculum map

Thinkport Social Studies Inquiry

Maryland Humanities
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • 6-8
  • History
  • Inquiry Kit, Social Studies
Curriculum map

Science Primary Source Lessons - New Focus

Governors State University
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • History, Science and Technology
  • Lessons, Primary Source, Science
Engaging Congress App Logo

Engaging Congress

Center on Representative Government
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, History
  • App, Civics, Congress, History
Eagle Eye Citizen App

Eagle Eye Citizen

George Mason University
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, History
  • App, Civics, Create, History, Solve, Teach
iCivics

DBQuest

iCivics
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
  • App, Civics, History, Primary Sources, Question
Case Maker Logo

My Case Maker

Bean Creative
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • 6-8
  • Civics and Government, History
  • App, Civics , Inquiry, Online Learning, Primary Sources
C3 photo

Can Music and Dance Change Public Opinion?

Linda Lee
  • C3 Inquiry
  • 9-12
  • Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, History
  • C3 Framework
  • African American, Civil Rights Movement, Dance, Equality, Music, Public Opinion
C3 photo

Did Charles Sumner Deserve It?

C3 Teachers Development
  • C3 Inquiry
  • 3-5
  • Civics and Government, History
  • C3 Framework
  • Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks, Slavery
C3 photo

How Did Birds Gain Political Protection?

TPS Eastern Region Team
  • C3 Inquiry
  • 9-12
  • Civics and Government, History
  • C3 Framework
  • Migratory Birds, National Laws, Political Protection, State Laws, Women's Fashion
C3 photo

How has Music Influenced the Long Civil Rights Movement?

Joyce Mason
  • C3 Inquiry
  • 9-12
  • Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, History
  • C3 Framework
  • Long Civil Rights Movement, Music, Songs of Protest
C3 photo

Did the Founders Want Government to Work?

C3 Teachers Development
  • C3 Inquiry
  • 9-12
  • Civics and Government, History
  • C3 Framework
  • Founders, Government, Liberties, Power, Separation of Powers
C3 photo

Was Jane Addams a Wonder Woman in History?

Ann Canning
  • C3 Inquiry
  • 6-8
  • Cultural Studies, History
  • C3 Framework
  • Jane Addams, Pacifist, World Peace

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