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Lincoln's Governmental Impact on the Modern Day through Speeches and Policies

Crise, Thomas

PD Plan
9-12
Civics and Government, History
Common Core, MD State
Lincoln, Government, Speech, Policies, Primary Sources, Policy, Modern Day

Look Back See Further: Studying Photographs and Drawing Connections

University of the Arts

External link
Activity
Any Grade
Arts and Music, Cultural Studies, History
Common Core
Documentary, Portrait, Promotion, Purpose, Scenes

Making Connections Through the Use of Primary Sources

Feriano, Patricia

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
19th Amendment, Alice, Connections, Construct, Inquiry, Paul, Suffragette, Stripling, Voting, Women's Rights

Man of Commerce Map

Liddiard, Evan

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Audience, Bias, Commerce, Geography, Inquiry, Map, Point of View, Purpose

Many Faces of Advertising

Sielski, Mary

Lesson Plan
9-12
History
PA State
Advertising, America, Inquiry, Modern, Propaganda, Vintage

Map Analysis Across the Curriculum

Cracovaner, Ann

PD Plan
6-8
Arts and Music, Bilingual/ESL
ISTE
Analysis, Geography, Map, Washington DC

Mapping Out Ways to Include Geography in the C3 Framework

Bamford, Heidi

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
C3
C3 Framework, Geography, Inquiry, Maps

Maps Tell Stories: The American Revolution

LeBlanc, Michelle

PD Plan
6-8
Geography, History
21st Century Learner
American Revolution, Boston, Colonist, England, Geography, Maps, Washington

March of the Civil Rights (The African American Experience)

Baker, Allison; Brooks, Abby ; Flower, Heather

Unit
3-5
Arts and Music, English/Language Arts, History
PA State
African American, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Interview, Martin Luther King, Movement, Music, Segregation, Song

Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl

Petri, Gail

Activity
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
African Americans, Civil War, Draft Riots, Girl, Maritcha , New York, Slavery

Martin's Big Words

Kifer, Laura

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Civil Rights, Disobedience, Equality, I Have a Dream, Jim Crow Laws, Martin Luther King , Segregation

Memorials and Their Meaning

Pohodich, Amy

Lesson Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core, PA State
Design, Memorials, September 11, Statue of Liberty, Symbols

Moving Through Primary Sources with the Library of Congress and Thinking Routines

Vanderwall, Annette

PD Plan
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner, Common Core
Analyze, Critical, Library, Photo, Thinking, Visibility

Mr. Lincoln's Boys

Smith, Laurelin

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Civil War, Lincoln, Slavery, Washington DC

Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers

Thistle, Gay

Activity
3-5
English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Beard, Civil War, Inauguration, Lincoln, Whiskers

Multiple Perspectives of World War I

Lee, Alyson

PD Plan
9-12
History
21st Century Learner
Perspective, Photograph, Point of View, Propaganda, Soldier, Troop, World War I, WWI

Museum Walk Activity

TPS

PD Plan
6-8
Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Analyze, Artifact, Inquiry, Museum, Observe, Question, Reflect

Music Literacy + The Common Core

Pailen, Lillian

PD Plan
6-8
Arts and Music
Common Core
Culture, Heritage, Literacy, Music, Song

My Case Maker

Bean Creative

External link
Curriculum
6-8
Civics and Government, History
App, Civics , Inquiry, Online Learning, Primary Sources

Myth Vs. Reality: What Really Happened at Plymouth

Zupan, Michelle

PD Plan
6-8
English/Language Arts, History
21st Century Learner, NCSS
Bay Colony, Indians, Massachusettes, Mayflower, Myth, Pilgrims, Plymouth, Reality, Thanksgiving

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

Nellie Bly Thematic Primary Source Set

Canning, Ann; Hicks, David; Lee, John

Primary Source Set
Any Grade
Civics and Government, History
1890s, Analyzing, Nellie Bly, Primary Source Set

Night

Knight, Asher

Activity
9-12
Cultural Studies, English/Language Arts, History
Common Core
Adolf Hitler, Ellie Wiesel, Genocide, Germany, Holocaust, Nazi, Night, World War II, WWII

Old Newspapers Reveal Great Stuff About the Past

Greeble, Marty

PD Plan
9-12
English/Language Arts, History
ISTE
Chronicling America, Newspaper, Past, Present, Western North Carolina

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