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Progressive Era

Chaussard, Stefan

Unit
9-12
History
PA State
19th Amendment, Conservation, Corruption, Immigration, Monopoly, Muckrakers, Progressive Era, Roosevelt, Womans Suffrage

Uprising Pre-Reading Activity

Mourer, Peggy

Activity
9-12
English/Language Arts
Common Core
Garment Workers, Immigrant, Industrial Revolution, Laborers, New York City, Pre-Reading, Uprising

Political Cartoons as Representations of the United States Political Party System

Bakhtiari, Rosemary

Activity
9-12
Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
VA State
Election, Government, Political Cartoons, Political Parties, United States

Point of View in Statues of Lincoln: Three Looks at a Leader

TPS

Activity
9-12
Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
Common Core, NCSS
Artist, Civil War, Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial, Lincoln Park, Monument, National Mall, Sculpture, Statues, Tribute

Overview of American Expansion Westward

Schaefer, Kameron

Unit
9-12
Geography, History
PA State
Alamo, France, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Louisiana Purchase, Napoleon, Northwest, Ordinance, Oregon Trail, Texas Annexation, United States, Westward Expansion

Lincoln's Assassination from a Friend's Diary

TPS

Activity
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, NCSS
Assassination, Booth, Civil War, Diary, Horation, Lincoln, Nelson, Taft, Washington DC, Wilkes

Labor Day: Just Closing the Pool?

Mihok, Alys

Lesson Plan
Pre K-2
Cultural Studies, History
PA State
Holiday, Labor Day, Parade, Summer

Killer Angels

Divelbliss, David

Lesson Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner
Civil War, Gettysburg, Killer Angels, Lee, Pickett, Turning Point

Introduction to TPS Professional Development

Domingues-Murphy, Deborah

PD Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Diego Rivera, Literacy, Primary Source, Professional Development, Zapata

Interview With Fountain Hughes

TPS

Activity
9-12
History
Common Core, NCSS
African Americans, Baltimore, Civil War, Emancipation, Fountain Hughes, Interview, Oral History, Slavery

How did Native Americans Influence Jamestown and the Settlers?

Lovell, Lauren

Lesson Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
VA State
Colonies, Jamestown, John Smith, Native Americans, Pocahontas, Primary Sources, Settlers

History and Engingeering Design of Cars

Joll, Eileen

Lesson Plan
6-8
History, Science and Technology
Next Generation Science, NCSS
Assembly Line, Automobile, Car, Design, Energy, Engineering, Henry Ford, Industrial Revolution, Mass Production, Technology

Exploring the Alphabet

Baczkowski, Rebecca

Lesson Plan
Pre K-2
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Alphabet, Children, Writing

Emily Dickinson Among Her Contemporaries: Transcendentalist or Modern Poet?

Peloquin-Burns, Denise

Activity
9-12
English/Language Arts
Common Core
Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Modern, Poem, Poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Romanticism, Transcendentalist, Walt Whitman

Civil Rights Movement in the Courts and Congress

Hughes, Noelle

Unit
9-12
Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
Civil Rights, Discrimination, Inequality, Legislation, Segregation

Challenges for Immigrants

Carlier, Jon; Poland, Jason

Unit
6-8
English/Language Arts, Geography, History
PA State
Angel Island, Ellis Island, Immigrants, Immigration, Nativism, Pull Factors, Push Factors, Urbanization

An Investigation on Herstory in American History

Purdin, Tammara

PD Plan
3-5
History
21st Century Learner, ISTE, Learning Forward
Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, Women's History

Florida and the Civil War

Nadeau, Kacie

PD Plan
6-8
Cultural Studies, History
21st Century Learner, ISTE, Learning Forward
Civil War, Clinch, Florida, Fort, Pickens, St. Augustine

Think Aloud with Photographs, Cartoons and Literary Texts

Waff, Diane

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
ISTE
Dust Bowl, Grapes of Wrath, Great Depression, Photographs, Political Cartoons, Think-aloud

Visibly Invisible. Pop culture Media’s Effect on America’s Attitude Toward Native Peoples

Newell, Christopher

PD Plan
9-12
Cultural Studies, History
ISTE
Curtis , Native, Native American, Photography

Early Exploration of Florida: Elementary Primary Source Analysis

LaValle, Carol

PD Plan
3-5
Cultural Studies, History
21st Century Learner, ISTE, Learning Forward
Florida , Maps

Wright Brothers and Aviation

Putman, Breann; Vidosh, Mikayla

Unit
3-5
English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
PA State
Aviation, Flight, Innovation, Invention, Technology, Travel, Wright Brothers

World War I in the trenches

Pieretti, Jayme

Lesson Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, MD State
Mental Health, Photograph, Shell Shock, Soldiers, Technology, Trench Warfare, World War I, WWI

World War I Armistice

Wilson, Zachary

Activity
6-8
History
Common Core
Armistice, Great War, Kentucky, Peace, Richmond, United States, World War I, WWI

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