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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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Women's Suffrage Movement Idea Book for Educators

A&E, HISTORY, et al
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, Cultural Studies, History
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Women's Suffrage: Yea or Nay

Heidler, Kathy
  • Lesson Plan
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, PA State
  • 19th Amendment, Suffrage, Voting, Women
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Working Toward a Culturally Relevant Classroom Webinar

Ellison, Jessica ; TPS Eastern Region
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Civics and Government, Cultural Studies
  • Inquiry, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Webinar
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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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World War I Armistice

Magyar, Casey
  • Unit
  • 9-12
  • History
  • PA State
  • Conflict, Isolationism, Military, Music, Newspaper, Propaganda, Soldier, Speech, Technology, United States, World War I, WWI
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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
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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
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Yes, YOU Can Engage Students and Enhance Learning With Primary Sources

Rickman, Pam
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, Math
  • Professional Learning
  • Engagement, Library of Congress, Immigrants
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You Can't Play (Integration of Baseball)

Arbogast, Robi; Glenn, Brandon; Red-Horse, Rachel
  • Unit
  • Pre K-2
  • Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core, PA State
  • Baseball, Brooklyn Dodgers, Civil Rights, Equality, Little League, Negro Leagues, Robinson, Segregation, Women

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