United States History

Lesson Plans

 

By Topic

Colonial Period

• Christopher Columbus (Core Knowledge/Kindergarten)
• Just Where was Columbus?
• Who in History are Famous Explorers?
• Christopher Columbus Web Quest
• A Royal Charter from the King   Stuart Kornbluth, Bonnie Oehl Elementary, San Bernardino City USD
• A Practical Experiment in Colonization  Gene W. Mason, Emerson Junior High, Enid, Oklahoma (8-12)
• Colonial Rules Donnalee Eisenhart, Mountain View High School Orem, Utah (9-12)
• A Royal Charter from the King (ITDC Webquest)
• The Thirteen Original Colonies
• A Time to Give Thanks: A Thanksgiving Unit Study
• A Thanksgiving Lesson Plan
• Science and the Colonies
• Columbus' Voyage to the New World (Grades 3-5)
• Creating a Compass
• Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents
• Ben Frankin Timeline
• Children in Colonial America
• Go West With Columbus
  • Worksheet
• The Pilgrim Life Adventure
• Colonial Williamsburg (Web Quest)
• All Aboard for Jamestown (Web Quest)
• Thanksgiving Unit
• The Mariners' Museum: Age of Exploration Educational Curriculum
• Discover Columbus
• Kindergarten Lesson 1: Why Did the Plimoth Settlers Celebrate Thanksgiving?
• Mayflower (Picture)
• Life on Plymouth Plantation
• Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism
• Life on Plymouth Plantation
• Life in Early America
• Colonial Americas Internet Hunt
• Colonial and Revolutionary Americans Internet Hunt
• Colonial America
• Children in Colonial America
• Colonial American Villages
• Christopher's Crossing
• Chart Columbus/ Voyage
• The Founding of the 13 Original Colonies
• Colonial America Thematic Unit
• Pocahontas
• Explorers of the New World
• Jamestown
• French and Indian War
• Meet the Fort
• The Salem Witchcraft Trial Project
• Columbus Day
• The Age of Exploration Curriculum Guide
• Historic Jamestown
• Interactive Exercises

 

The American Revolution

• Thomas Paine and "Common Sense"   Terry Jordan, Orange High School, Pepper Pike, Ohio (11/AP)
• Thomas Paine: A Rebel with a Cause (John Gibson, Champion High School, Warren, Ohio)
• Assess Declaration of Independence's Significance (CNN)
• American Revolution Simulation Roseann Fox, Casper, WY (8-9)
• Signers of the Declaration of Independence (Millbury Schools)
• How Man Negotiates Away His Natural Freedoms Ed Cannaday, Oklahoma (10-12)
• John Adams and the Boston Massacre (The History Net)
• Not Worth a Continental Activity (Discovery School)
• Mapping the Revolution Activity (Discovery School)
• A Variety of Lesson Plans by Discovery School
• You Are There: A Revolutionary On-line Newspaper (George Cassutto) (NARA)
• Images of the American Revolution (NARA)
• George Washington Biography Lesson
• Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents
• Ben Frankin Timeline
• Images of the American Revolution (NARA)
• Valley Forge
• Colonial and Revolutionary Americans Internet Hunt
• The Washington Monument: Tribute in Stone
• I Pledge Allegience: The History of the American Flag
• The American Revolution (Lessons)
• American Revolution Worksheets
• American Revolution Simulation
• John Adams (CNN)
• What Does the United States Flag Symbolize? (CNN)
• The American Revolution
• American Revolution Worksheets
• American Revolutionary War: Thematic Unit
• My Brother Sam is Dead
• American Revolutionary War Thematic Unit
• American Revolution Simulation
• Images of the American Revolution (NARA)
• Review Philadelphia's place in American history (CNN)
• Assess Declaration of Independence's significance (CNN)
• Johnny Tremain: Teaching Cyberguide

 

The United States Constitution

• Inaugural Lesson Plan: George Washington: The President without Precedent
• The Articles of Confederation Game  Rob Bishop, Box Elder High School, Brigham City, Ut. (19-12)
• The U.S. Constitution Power Grab Game Don M. Carlson, Columbia River High School, Vancouver, WA (10-12)
• Separation of Powers Among the Three Branches of Government Tim Brennan, Weiser High School, ID (10-12)
• Supreme Court Decisions on Freedom of Religion Bruce D. Berst (11)
• The Constitution Scavenger Hunt  Betty Haile, Central Mid-High; Norman, OK (9)
• Symbolic Speech Vicki Row, WI (9)
• Supreme Court Rulings Rex Hefner, Okemah High School; Okemah, OK (10)
• Big Box Citizenship Review
• Building an Archives (NARA)
• Federalism (Close Up Foundation)
• Origins of the American Republic (George Cassutto)
• In Congress Assembled: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States (Library of Congress)
• You Make the Rules
• In Congress Assembled: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States
• The Importance of Government
• Rights and Freedoms
• The United States Constitution/Joseph A. Montagna (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)
• The Bill of Rights (Web Quest)
• Bill of Rights Songs
• Systems of Government
• The Branches of Government
• Types of Government
• The American President: Classroom Activities
• Forming a Government
• The U.S. Constitution and Amendments
• Judges in the Classroom
• Electing the President: Activities for Grades K - 5
• Web Lessons: Impeachment
• Precedents and Presidents
• The Washington Monument: Tribute in Stone
• Presidential "Firsts" Activity
• Web Lessons (Constitutional Rights Foundation)
• So, You Want to be President?
• You and the Constitution
• A More Perfect Union
• A Classroom Bill of Rights
• A Lesson in Law Making
• How Laws are Made
• Branches of Government
• Bill of Rights Song
• Who Knows What is in Article 8?
• The Creation of a Bill
• Teacher Resources
• The Constitution (Yahoo)
• The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met (Edsitement)


The Nation Takes Shape (1789-1841)

• Sectionalism in the Early United States
• Whole Cloth (Discovering Science and Technology through American Textile History)
• The United States v. Thomas CooperA Violation of the Sedition Law (NARA)
• Tally of the 1824 Electoral College Vote (NARA)
• The Lewis and Clark Expedition (NARA)
• Johnny Appleseed Web Quest
• Tracking Alexis de Toqueville
• Lewis and Clark (Grade Five)
• George Washington Lesson Plans
• American History, 1824: Josefina Montoya
• American History through Fiction: 1824
• Lewis and Clark (Game)
• Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
• Lewis and Clark Thematic Unit
• Davey Crockett Lesson Plan
  

 

The Mexican War

• Bilingual Webquest
• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (NARA)

 

The Civil War

• Nat Turner's Rebellion   Terry Jordan, Orange High School, Pepper Pike, Ohio
• The Civil War Gazette Jim Evans, Teacher on Assignment, Redlands Unified School District
• The Civil War -- Emancipation Experience Brian I. Yamashita, W.R. Farrington High School, Honolulu, Hawaii (9-12)
• Civil War Essay Writing Steven Player (11-12)
• Civil War Lesson Plans (Core Knowledge)
• Literature of the U.S. Civil War
• Lesson Ideas for the Civil War Gallery
• Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin (NARA)
• To Be a Slave
• From a Log Cabin to the White House and What's So Civil About the Civil War?
• Clara Barton
• Not Just a Man's War
• Civil War Soldiers: Fact and Fiction
• Slaves Conductors of the Underground Railroad
• About Abraham Lincoln
• Slavery in the United States
• Lesson Ideas for the Civil War Gallery
• Civil War Gazette
• If the Dead Could Talk
• Civil War Personal Journal
• Life as a Slave: WebQuest
• Civil War Cemetery
• Civil War Personal Journal
• Women During the Civil War
• Lesson Ideas for the Civil War Gallery
• Slavery in the United States
• A Nation Divided
• Casualty Pictograph
• Indentured Servants
• Abraham Lincoln: Of Two Minds
• Civil War Activities Using the Internet (*************)
• Analyze the Underground Railroad as Reflective of the U.S. Psyche (CNN)
• Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Charting the Slave Trade
• Civil War Lesson Plans
• Lesson Plan #4/The Civil War: 1850's to 1860's
  
  

 

Reconstruction

• Web Lessons on Impeachment

 

The Gilded Age

• Negotiating Treaties Maureen Crosby, Juneau-Douglas High School,

     Juneau, Alaska (11)

• Rocky Mountain Locust Plague (National History Day)
• Anti-Railroad Propaganda Poster: The Growth of Regionalism, 1800-1860 (NARA)
• Glidden's Patent Application for Barbed Wire (National Archives)
• United States Immigration Policy (Close Up Foundation)
• Design a Navajo Rug - a Lesson in Symmetry (Dale A.Pickering, Elementary Art Teacher Mesa Public Schools, Mesa, Arizona)
• The Sioux Treaty of 1868
• A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers (Sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society)
• Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor (NARA)
• The Industrial Revolution and You (Web Quest)
• Little House in the Census: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder (NARA)
• Wizard of Oz Lesson Plans
• Wizard of Oz Activities
• Oregon Trail Diary
• Oregon Trail Teachers' Guide
• Westward Expansion
• Create Your Own Pioneer
• The Industrial Age and You
• "The Public Be Damned" A Thematic and Multiple Intelligences Approach to Teaching the Gilded Age (Nina Mjagkij and E. Antonio Cantu)
• Donner Online (Web Quest)
• A Journey on the Oregon Trail (Web Quest)
• Exploration of the West (Grade 1)
• Gold Rush Players (Web Quest)
• 5th Grade Immigration Page
• Collaborative Thematic Unit Theme: Native Americans
• Westward Expansion
• A Celebration of Prairie Life
• A Prairie Town Activity
• The Westward Movement
• The California Gold Rush
• Trail of Tears Lesson
• The Lone Star Dilemma
• Projects: Oz
• The Rockefellers
• Gilded Age Newspapers

 

The Innocent Years

• The Age of Imperialism

 

World War I

• Civil Rights: Casualties of Wartime Linda Hugle, Hidden Valley High School, Grants Pass, OR (9-12)
• World War I Group Newspaper Presentation Jeri Kelley, Mountain View High School., Orem, UT (9-12)
• The Costs of War (Web Quest)
• World War I (Encarta Schoolhouse)
• Propaganda in World Wars I and II
• Woodrow Wilson: Prophet of Peace (Teaching with Historic Places)

 

The 1920's

• The Nineteenth Amendment Larry W. Rowley, Green River High School, Green River, Utah (9 -12)
• The Stock Market Game Janet Westgard, Newberg High School, Newberg, OR (9 -12)
• Communication in U.S. Society; Radio in America Chris Hegele, Denver Academy; Denver, CO (10-12)
• The Jazz Age vs. The Great Depression Jamie F. Staub, L.W. Higgins High School; Marrero, Louisiana (11)
• The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Magazine Description Continued (Lori Gwinn)
• The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Prohibition (Lori Gwinn)
• The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Famous People (Lori Gwinn)
• The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Jazz Age (Lori Gwinn)
• The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Automobile (Lori Gwinn)
• The Great Gatsby, 1920s, Trends (Lori Gwinn)
• The Internet Stock Market Simulation
• The Stock Market Game 2000
• Scopes Trial Activity
• Using the Stock Market in the Classroom
• Taking Stock
• Edu Stock
• Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents
• Teaching Activity on U.S. Immigration Policy
• The Teapot Dome Scandal
  

 

The Age of FDR

• Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the Treatment of Polio
• FDR and Political Cartoons
• War of the Worlds (Discovery School)
• The Great Depression and the 1990s ( Douglas Perry and Wendy Sauer)
• The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Amelia Earhart Lesson Plans
• Amelia Earhart Lesson Plan
• Web Quest: The Great Depression

 

The New Deal

• Who Gets the Job (Bureaucracy) Jeanette Jackson, Caldwell High School, Caldwell, Idaho
• Look Who's Footing the Bill (Web Quest/National Debt)
• Lesson Ideas for the Great Depression Gallery
• Images of the Depression Era
  

World War II

• Propaganda in World Wars I and II
• Causes of World War II Cecelia L. O'Keefe, Natrona County High School; Casper, WY (10-12)
• "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy": The First Typed Draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Address (NARA/Teaching with Documents)
• Anne Frank in the World, 1929 -1945 Teacher Workbook
• Anne Frank Lesson (Middle School)
• The Beast Within: An Interdiscipline Unit (Holocaust)
• The Children of War (Discovery Channel)
• Crack the Code (Encarta Schoolhouse)
• Great Figures of World War II (Encarta Schoolhouse)
• Schindler's List Teaching Guide
• The Costs of War (Web Quest)
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
• The Ernest and Elisabeth Cassutto Memorial Page: Survivors of the Holocaust
• A Trip Through World War II
• Eleanor's Story: An American Girl In Hitler's Germany
• Citizenship Denied: An Integrated Unit on the Japanese American Internment
• Eleanor's Story: An American Girl In Hitler's Germany (Lesson Plan)
• World War II Home Front Simulation
• The Holocaust: A Web Quest (George Cassutto)
• Pearl Harbor Lesson Plan
• Women and World War II
• Understanding Anne Frank
• Pearl Harbor Lesson Plan (CNN)
• Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Powers of Persuasion - Poster Art of World War II
  
  

Continuity and Change (1945-1975)

• Freedom of the Press Jim Skvorc, Summit High School, CO (10)
• The Korean Penninsula (National History Day)
• Snapshot Map Activity (Discovery School)
• Modern Presidency: Hail to the Chief (Discovery Channel)
• Teach Vietnam: The Learning Experience
• The 1960 Election and Foreign Policy
• US Foreign Policy in the 1970s and at the Turn of the Millennium By - George Cassutto
• Vietnam Once Again Examining Why the Vietnam War Is Still Difficult to Discuss (New York Times)
• White House Scandals (Watergate)
• Korean War Lesson Plans (Google)
• The Korean War (Discovery School)
• Lesson Plan/The Spy's Dilemma

 

Cold War

• Cold War: Lesson #1
• Cold War: Lesson #2
• Cold War: Lesson #3

 

Civil Rights

• Have Minorities Gained Acceptance? Donna Cawiezell; Casper, Wyoming (9-12)
• Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate
  • Lesson Plan
• Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West (NARA)
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Alabama Archives)
• Jackie Robinson
• Outstanding African Americans Internet Hunt
• A Study of Tolerance in America
• Are You Prejudiced?

 

The Travail of Liberalism (1976-2003)

• Operation Desert Fox (Nathan Everett)
• Crisis in Kosovo (Education World)
• Life in the 21st Century Theme (Discovery School)
• Post-Nuclear War Survival (Academy Curricular Exchang Columbia Education Center)
• Lesson Plans about Women in History
• Attack on America Lesson
• Examine History of U.S. Involvement with Israel/Middle East Conflict (CNN)
• Identify Attitudes of Americans and Muslims Toward Each Other (CNN)
• Relate Bush's Budget to the Nation's Priorities (CNN)
• Analyze President Bush's Reference to 'axis of evil' (CNN)
• Analyze Bush's State of the Union Address (CNN)
• Jimmy Carter as President and Ex-President
• Labels and Lyrics (Riverdeep)
• Lesson Plans for the Iraq War (Lesson Planet)
• Lessons for War (Education World)
  

Miscellaneous

• Baseball Statistics are Really Functions
• Math, Baseball and the San Francisco Giants
• How Long is the Volga River?
• America Dreams Through the Decades (*******)
• Wind Up Learning as the Year Winds Down: Activities
  for the Last Days of School
• Character Education Lesson
• Inca Lesson Plan
• A Review of American History (4-8)
• Women. Monarchs and Heads of State
• Micro Economics -- Personal Budgeting
• Death Penalty Curricula for High School
• Y1900 Connected to Y2K (Elizabeth L. Horn and Barbara F. Olic-Hamilton)
• Ireland: The Emerald Isle
• Mystery Guest Game
• Writing Assignments: Writing from Literature
• Paper Clip Game for Learning the Value of Rules
• Create a Super Hero
• Maya Quest Lesson Plans
• Class Trip Project
• Create Your Own Newspaper
• Life's Instructions: Collecting Family Sayings in a Student Publication (Rae Anne K. Alpers)
• The Law Web Quest
• Cooperative Learning Activities
• Daily Activity Cards
• My Favorite American Monument
• Rock 'n Roll Presidents
• Who Writes History
• Lawn and Landscape in World Context, 1945-2000

 

CNN

• John Adams
• Student Activism
• Clinton Memoirs
• Discussing a National Crisis
• Using Words and Gestures as Weapons
• Examining Terrorism Against the United States
• Examining the Effects of War on Civil Liberties
• What Does the U.S. Flag Symbolize?
• Identify How Local Papers Reported the September 11 Events
• Evaluate President Bush's First Year in Office
• Compare the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11 Attacks
• Examine State of the Union Addresses
• Analyze President Bush's Reference to 'Axis of Evil'

 

Web Links

• Ed Helper.com
• U.S. History Lesson Plans
• The Learning Page: Lessons
• TrackStar (Excellent Web Address Tracking Site)
  • Browser Search
• Scholastic Lesson Reproducibles
• Teach.net
• Ask ERIC
  • Ask ERIC Lesson Plans
• Crossroads
  • The High School Curriculum
  • Electronic Expo
  • Road Sign List Serve
  • Sitescene
    • A Monthly Review of Electronic Resources in American Studies
  • American Studies Web Pilot Version
• Lesson Plan Search
• Collaborative Lesson Archive (*******)
• U.S. History Lesson Plans (George Cassuto)
• Teaching with Historic Places
  • News of the Century Project
• Lesson Plans (Development)
• Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum (*******)
• Teacher Friendly Lesson Plans (Rainbow Horizon's Publishing)
• Marc's Lesson Plans Page
• Lesson Plans Page
• Lesson Plans (Social Education)
• Lesson Plan Links
• Elementary Social Studies Lesson Plans (Proteach)
• Marc Sheehan's Lesson Plans Page
• American History Lesson Plan Links
• Teachers and Students of North Hagerstown High School Help Fight Hate! (George Cassutto)
• Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Exchange
• Teachers Helping Teachers
• Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers (*)
• The Notre Dame Libraries Electronic Reference Resources
• Lesson Plans and Activities (Extensive)
• Lessons by Susan Boone
• Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library
• Social Studies Mini-Lessons
• Green & Growing Environmental Education Projects Home Page
• Lesson Plans (A Plethora)
• Princeton High School Student Lessons (Use of the Internet)
• Filamentality (Web Learning)
• Collaborative Lesson Archive
• Social Studies Lesson Plans
• Lesson Links
• National History Day Lessons
• League of Women Voters
• Mr. Cassutto's Lesson Plan of the Day
• Oh, Kids
• Academy Curricular Exchange (Social Studies High School (9-12)
• 1998 Winter Olympics Lesson Plans
• Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Lesson Plans
• Discovery Lesson Plans
  • Index
• Southern Poverty Law Center (Teaching Tolerance)
• United States Government Lessons (George Cassuto)
• The Digital Classroom (NARA: Primary Sources, Activities, and Training for Educators and Students)
• Encart Encyclopedia Lesson Plans
• C-Span in the Classroom
  • Lesson Plans
• Hammurabi's Code
• Edsitement
• Civics Resources (Close Up Foundation***)
• ITDC Curriculum Resources
• Center for Civic Education
• Think Quest
  • Coaching a Think Quest Team
• The Web Quest Page (***)
  • Building Blocks of a Web Quest
  • Web Quests and Resources for Teachers
  • Training for Teachers (Lesson Template)
• Start of the Hero's Journey
• Simulation Station
• Eyes on Art
• Deep in the Bush, Where People Rarely Go (African Folk Tales)
• ESPNET SportsZone (Sports Figures)
• The Nobel Channel
• UMI Support Center
  • Resources for Schools (*******)
  • Great Events Study Guides
• World Empires Theme (Discovery School)
• Using the Music "Rush" in the Social Studies Classroom (George Cassuto)
• Literature Day (Education World)
• Effective Speaking In A Debate Patsy Kretsch, Weiser High School, Weiser, Idaho (9-12)
• Better Book Reports (Education World)
• 12 Tips to Improve Literacy (Education World)
• Beat the Clock (Lessons in Time Management for Middle School Students)
• The Constitution Community Main Page (NARA) *********
• Student Web Workshop (George Cassutto)
• Pittsford Central Schools (Peter Pappas)
  • Teaching With Documents
• Fourteen Great Activities for the First Days of Sxchool! (Education World)
• Resources and Lessons by Grade Level
• Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
  • Medieval Life and Times
• "Decorating Your House"
• Musicans United for Songs In the Classroom, Inc.
• 21st Century Schoolhouse
• Document Analysis Worksheets (NARA)
• Decisions, Decisions (Tom Snyder)
• Internet TESL Journal
• Organization For Community Networks
  • The Academy Program
• The Academy Curriculum Exchange
• Teacher Link
• Discovery School Lesson Plans (Grades 6-8)
• Discovery School Lesson Plans (Grades 9-12)
• California Web Based Lesson Plans
• Lesson Plans for Dr. Seuss
• Green Eggs and Ham Activities
• Dr. Seuss Book Activities
• Dr. Seuss: A Cat in the Hat
• River Deep

 

General Information

• Geneaological Research Nelda Helt, Stillwater High School, Stillwater, OK (11)
• Family History Lesson Plan (Pete Harames, Mills High School, Millbrae, NM)
• Geneology Research (Nelda Helt, Stillwater High School, Stillwater, OK
• History -- Up Close and Personal (Loueen Morgan, Bixby High School, Bixby, OK)
• Why A Mock Trial?  Chris Dousso, Spearvill High School, KS (10-12)
• Topical Discussions  Mike Fitzgerald; McNary High School, Salem, Oregon (8-12)
• History Bingo  Sandy Kellogg, Churchill Co. Jr. High, Fallon, Nv.
• American Political Culture Sharon B. Brown, Box Elder High School; Brigham, UT (12)
• Comparing Communities (Language Arts Activity)
• The Continents Game (Grades 5-6)
• Society: Lesson Ideas
• You be the Historian
• Global Internet Project
• IRS Tax Interactive: Teachers' Toolkit
• Youth and Society Lessons
• Peace Corps World Wise Lessons
• Advice to the President (Encarta Schoolhouse)
• The Listening Game (Grade 3)
• Celebrate the 100th Day of School
• Executive Powers Lesson Plan
• Steps in Selecting a President
• President's Day Web Quest
• Online Economics Lesson Plans
• Teaching With Historic Places: Presidential Lesson Plans
• The American Experience/Presidents/Teacher's Guide
• Social Studies/Society
• Electing a Good President
• Acts of Kindness
• Poetry of the City
• NASA Space Link
• America Dreams .....through the Decades
• Lesson Plan on Myth, Legend and Folktales
• Myth Activities
• A WebQuest: Was It Murder? The Death of King Tutankhamun: The Boy King
• Social Studies Lesson Plans
• Make Your Own Class Newspaper
• Letter Writing Unit
• Coast to Coast Virtual Road Trip
• Computer Lesson Plans
• The 100 Most Significant Events of the Last Thousand Years
• Journalism Lesson Plans
• Creating Comic Strips

  
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