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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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Veterans Day

Isiminger, Karley
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • PA State
  • Poppy, Red Cross, Symbols, Veterans Day, World War I, WWI
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Veterans

Boscaljon, Lauren; Crile, Alyssa; Henrich, Rachel; Sapic, Stephanie
  • Unit
  • Pre K-2
  • Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, PA State
  • Civil War, Dog Tag, Interview, Letter, Oral History, Soldier, Veterans, War, World War
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Utilizing Primary Sources to Explore Japanese Internment

Norris, Christie
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • History
  • NC State
  • Homefront, Espionage, Executive Order, Internment, Japanese, Korematsu, Roosevelt, World War II, WWII
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Using the Online Resources of the Library of Congress to Teach Immigration

Gardner, Arlene
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • C3 Framework, Common Core
  • Analysis, Ellis Island, Immigration, Statue of Liberty
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Using the Library of Congress Website to Bring History to Life

Smith, Sharon
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Art, Arts, Band, Civil War, Library, Life, Literacy, Music, Perform
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Using the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a Means for Cross Curricular Collaboration

Genovese, Vincent
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • 21st Century Learner, PA State
  • Clark, Explore, Lewis, Manifest Destiny, Technology, Westward Expansion
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Using Primary Sources With Historical Fiction

Rosenberger, Connie
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts
  • Common Core, School Library
  • Analyze, Dorothea, Fiction, Inquiry, Lange
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Using Primary Sources to tell the Story of Early American Immigrants

Al-Mateen, Ameerah
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Ellis Island, Experience, Immigration, Nativism, Statue of Liberty
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Using Primary Sources to Bring Middle School Science to Life

Almond, Sharon
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Math, Science and Technology
  • 21st Century Learner, ISTE
  • Alexander Graham Bell, Analysis, Wright Brothers
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Using Primary Sources to Analyze Photographs

Meyers, Shanna
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Analyze, Drug, Health, Medicine, Photographs, Science
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Using Primary Sources

Kennedy, Ann
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Analysis
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Using Primary Source Sets to Support NYS Social Studies C3 Toolkits

Schweizer, Tom
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • American, Discrimination, Espionage, Framework, Homefront, Inquiry, Internment, Japanese, Pearl Harbor, Primary Source Set, Roosevelt, Toolkit, World War II, WWII
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Using Online Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

Kensill, Heather
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • ISTE
  • Critical Thinking, Inquiry
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Using Maps as Primary Sources

Goodall, Shana
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • Geography, History
  • Common Core
  • Analyze, Geography, Inquiry, Maps, Waldseemuller, Zoom
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Using LOC Primary Sources to Explain the Guilded Age

Mottola Poole, Cyndi
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • History
  • C3, Common Core
  • Analyze, Guilded Age, Homestead, Industrial Revolution, Labor, Miner, Monongahela, Pittsburgh, River, Work
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Using Library of Congress Resources to Study Westward Expansion

Marcus Feld, Lauren
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Art, Geography, Maps, Migrate, Painting, Westward Expansion
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Using Library of Congress Primary Sources - Political Cartoons

Jackson, Andrea
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Bilingual/ESL, English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Analysis, Cartoons, Library of Congress, Political
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Using Google Tools to Integrate Primary Sources in Classroom Activities

Duggins, Brene E.
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Forms, Google, Integrate, Sheets, Tools
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American Propaganda as Imagery Tool During World War II

Carney, Paul
  • Lesson Plan
  • 9-12
  • Arts and Music, History
  • Common Core
  • Imagery, Poster, Propaganda, World War II, WWII
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US Constitution and the Bill of Rights: Relevance to Today

Lail, Sara
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • Civics and Government, English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner, ISTE
  • Amendments, Bill of Rights, Constitution, Founding Father, Franklin, Government, Madison, Washington
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Unlocking Your Inner Sherlock: Inquiry Learning With Primary Sources

Walker, Juan
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Captain, Detective, Inquiry, Interview, Jackson, Native American, Oral History, Sherlock, Walker
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Unknown Civil War

Zewe, Debbie
  • Activity
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • PA State
  • Civil War, General Order, Grant, Jewish, Population, Slavery, South
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Understanding Political Cartoons of the Civil War Period

Corwin, Karen
  • Lesson Plan
  • 9-12
  • History
  • PA State
  • Analysis, Cartoon, Civil War, Copperhead, Lincoln, Uncle Sam, Slavery, States Rights, Symbolism
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Uncle Jed's Barbershop

Thistle, Gay
  • Activity
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Bank, Barbershop, Dreams, Failure, Family, Great Depression, Healthcare, Segregation, Sharecropper

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