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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 Sets

State Historical Society of Iowa
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • IA State
  • Primary Source Set, Video
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Primary Sources and Getting Familiar with the Library of Congress.pdf

Woolfolk, Sandy
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Analyze, Industrial, Inquiry, Labor, Revolution, Triangle Factory Fire, Work
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Primary Sources in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Classrooms

Slobodnik, Candace
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner, Common Core
  • African American, Baccalaureate, Critical Thinking, Discrimination, International, Research, Tuskeegee Institute
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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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Primary Sources The Future to Teaching the Past.pdf

Grier, Caroline
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • History
  • ISTE Standards
  • Future, Past, Present, Teaching
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Primary Sources The Key to Library Classroom Collaboration

Labert, Stephanie
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Analysis, Book Backup, Classroom, Collaboration, Library, Literature, SCIM-C
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Primary Sources Today and Yesterday

Young, Jayne
  • PD Plan
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Baseball, Japanese, Inquiry, Internment, Photograph, Today, Yesterday
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Primary Sources, The Battle of Gettysburg, and Killer Angels

Divelbliss, David
  • PD Plan
  • 9-12
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Book Backdrop, Civil War, Gettysburg, Killer Angels, Pickett, Robert E. Lee
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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
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Quiltmakers Gift

Thistle, Gay
  • Activity
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Great Depression, New Deal, Quilt, Roosevelt
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Read.Inquire.Write

Michigan University
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • 6-8
  • History
  • Argument, Social Studies, Writing
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Reading Like a Historian

Stanford History Education Group
  • External link
  • Curriculum
  • Any Grade
  • History
  • Contextualizing, Historical Inquiry, Lessons, Sourcing
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Real Deal for Project Based Learning

Mitchell, Audrey
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • VA State
  • Analysis, Coal Breaker, Industrial, Manifest Destiny, Project, Revolution, Westward Expansion
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Recalling September 11, 2001

Parry, Reba; Polesovsky, Melanie; Wadsworth, Tia
  • Unit
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History, Science and Technology
  • PA State
  • 9/11, Air Pollution, Asbestos, Cancer, Change, Emotion, Heroes, Identity, September 11, Sulfur Dioxide, Superman, Terrorism
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Reconstruction 1865-1877

Davenport, Rikki
  • Activity
  • 6-8
  • History
  • SC State
  • Amendment, Discrimination, Freedmans Bureau, Political Cartoon, Reconstruction, Sharecropper, South Carolina, Slavery, Technology
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Redesigning History to Understand the Culture of Quilt Making

Sessoms, Diallo
  • PD Plan
  • 6-8
  • Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, Science and Technology
  • 21st Century Learner
  • Primary Sources, Quilting, Technology
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Responsive Inquiry In and Through Instrumental Music - NAfME

Neff, Jenny
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, History
  • Analyzing, Instrumental, Music, NAfME, Responsive Inquiry
NAfME Logo

Responsive Inquiry In and Through Vocal Music - NAfME Webinar

Bennett, Carolyn
  • External link
  • Activity
  • Any Grade
  • Arts and Music, History
  • Analyzing, Music, NAfME, Responsive Inquiry, Vocal, Webinar
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River Ran Wild

Colcuhoun, Jaclyn
  • Activity
  • Pre K-2
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Colony, Declaration of Independence, Immigrant, Nashua Indian, Nashua River Valley, River, Small Pox
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Roaring Twenties

Goeggelman, Corey
  • Unit
  • 6-8
  • Cultural Studies, History
  • PA State
  • 18th Amendment, Coolidge, Entertainment, Fashion, Harding, Hoover, President, Prohibition, Roaring Twenties
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Role of Women During World War II

Fowler, Mary Conner
  • Lesson Plan
  • 6-8
  • History
  • NCSS
  • Government, Home front, Propaganda, Women, World War II, WWII
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Roles of Government

Swingle, Adam
  • Unit
  • 9-12
  • Civics and Government, History
  • PA State
  • Checks and Balances, Constitution, Franklin , Government, House of Representatives, President, Senate, Separation of Powers, Washington
Vintage Photo of People Riding Roller Coaster

Roller Coasters and Newton's Law of Gravity

Dana Wright
  • External link
  • Primary Source Set
  • 9-12
  • Science and Technology
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Rosa Parks

Uram, Paige
  • Activity
  • 3-5
  • English/Language Arts, History
  • Common Core
  • Civil Rights, Civil Disobedience, Equality, Jim Crow Laws, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, Segregation

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