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Designing museum exhibits for “The Grapes of Wrath”: A multigenre project

This lesson asks students to focus on one issue from the Depression as it applies to the novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Working alone or with a partner, students create artifacts in a variety of genres for a museum exhibit that... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

The Digital Classroom

Resources and guides to using the primary history materials of the United States in research and teaching. Links to the wealth of materials held in the National Archives and Records Administration collection. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: The National Archives and Records Administration

Dramatizing history in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"

In this EDSITEment lesson, students will consider how Arthur Miller interpreted the facts of the Salem witch trials and how he successfully dramatized them in his play, The Crucible. Students will examine some of Miller's historical sources:... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–11 English Language Arts)

Provided by: EDSITEment

Drop Me Off in Harlem: Exploring the Intersections

Drop Me Off in Harlem: Exploring the Intersections explores the Harlem Renaissance from the ground up, allowing site visitors to take a virtual tour of the community and to become familiar with the people and artistic works that were central... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: ArtsEdge

EDSITEment - Lesson Plans for History and Social Studies

The lesson plans available on this site are organized into U.S. History and World History, with subcategories within each group. The main History and Social Studies page is divided into two content area tabs: Lesson pLans and Websites. The Subject Navigator... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities

Engaging students in a collaborative exploration of the “Gettysburg Address”

In this lesson, students work together on inquiry-based projects in order to understand the message of Abraham Lincoln's “Gettysburg Address”. In this multi-genre activity, students will: explore the history and meaning of... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Exploring cross-age tutoring activities with Lewis and Clark

In this ReadWriteThink lesson, cross-age tutoring gives high school students the opportunity to guide elementary students (in grades 3-5) to a deeper understanding of the adventures of Lewis and Clark. Students use the book How We Crossed the West... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 and 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Eyewitness to history

Families connect us to our own history and to the history of the world around us. In this lesson, students explore this second set of connections, talking with family members about landmark events they have witnessed in their lifetimes to learn how history... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan

Provided by: EDSITEment

Facing History and Ourselves

Collection of teacher resources and workshops designed to develop humanity in students. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Families in Bondage

This two-part lesson plan draws on letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones still in bondage, singling out a few among the many slave experiences to offer students a glimpse into slavery and its effects on African... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Images of Faulkner and the South

In this first lesson in EDSITEment's unit entitled "Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a funeral," students research the life of William Faulkner and investigate the relationship between the "South" of Faulkner's work and the... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)

Provided by: EDSITEment

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

This website gives background information the first Greensboro sit-in, the students who participated, and the Civil Rights movement as a whole. It also provides two well developed lesson plans to be used with the accompanying film. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Independent Television Service

Federal Reserve Education

Get to know the United States Federal Reserve Bank System using these resources. If you need to understand monetary policy and other governmental-level economic concepts, or if you are trying to get a grasp of the personal financial concepts like banking,... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Federal Reserve

Fighting injustice by studying lessons of the past

Using an online Venn Diagram tool, students study the experience of European Jews during the Holocaust, and then compare their experience to those of the Cherokees during the Trail of Tears and the Japanese–Americans during World War II. Students write... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Provided by: ReadWriteThink

First Amendment Schools

Find out how your school embraces democratic principles on this site which features the five freedoms: freedom of religion, speech, assembly, press, and petition. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

The First Amendment: What's fair in a free country?

Balancing rights and responsibilities is difficult, even for the Supreme Court. This lesson demonstrates to students that freedom of speech is an ongoing process. After completing the lessons in this unit from the National Endowment for the Humanities... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)

Provided by: EDSITEment

Foreign Policy Association (FPA) Great Decisions Educators Corner

This free resource provides professional development, global educational resources, a teacher's forum, workshops, global conferences, grants and much more. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: Foreign Policy Association

FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

A vast collection of teaching and learning resources for the arts, educational technology, foreign languages, health and safety, language arts, mathematics, physical education, science, social studies, and vocational education. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

From Arbor Day to Earth Day

In this lesson from the Forest History Society in Durham, North Carolina, students analyze the influence of diverse forms of public opinion on the development of environmental public policy and decision making from the early industrial age through the postwar... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 8 Social Studies)

Provided by: Forest History Society

From forest to farm and back again

In this lesson plan from the Forest History Society in Durham, North Carolina, students examine the history of land use from colonial settlement to the emergence of modern America at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts. Students will examine, interpret,... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Social Studies)

Provided by: Forest History Society