Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Presentation of Pilgrims

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students are given a category to research (clothes, life before the New World, the voyage, etc.) about Pilgrim life. s Students, in groups, create presentations using software program such as PowerPoint.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Patchtowns: Big Industry, Little Towns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore what it was like to live in a coal mining town.  In this history lesson plan, students discuss specific details about the lives of coal company workers and their families.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

FDR's First Inaugural Address

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners, in groups, describe a photo to the class. They determine which New Deal program is depicted in each of the images based on the research they conducted.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Keystone Science School: Sustainable Automobiles

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students explore how to choose the correct car for them based on their needs.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Reconstruction Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this social studies worksheet, students look for the words in the puzzle that are related to the theme of the word search. Spelling skills are worked on.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: World War Ii: Women on the Home Front

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore women's work on the home front during World War II.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Japanese American Internment in World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Japanese American internment during World War II.
Website
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Women Aviators in World War Ii: "Fly Girls"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explores the contributions of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II, and their aviation legacy. They will examine portrayals of women in World War II posters (and newsreels) and compare and...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: Shaping the Postwar World

For Students 9th - 10th
Consider how U.S. foreign policy changed in the aftermath of WWII, and analyze the philosophical, geopolitical, and economic factors that influenced these changes. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written argument...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age it started.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Attacks on American Soil: Pearl Harbor and September 11

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to compare American responses to Pearl Harbor and September 11.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Mexican Labor and Wwii: Bracero Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Bracero Program.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Truth, Justice, and the Superhero Comic Book

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the emergence of superhero comic books.
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 7: Facing Challenges at Home and Abroad

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive learning module examines the role of economic fluctuations in creating new demands on the government to design reforms and how the United States became a dominant military, political, cultural, and economic force in the...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Impact of Television on News Media

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the impact of television on news media.
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Great Depression and Wwii, 1929 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Page depicts information on the Great Depression and World War II, with famous photo of migrant worker by Dorothea Lange from 1938.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: America From the Great Depression to World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains 160,000 black and white photos and 1600 color photos documenting America from 1935-1945. These images make up the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Jitterbugs, Swing Kids, and Lindy Hoppers

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the cultural impact of swing dancing.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Social Realism

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore social realism in American art.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Deal.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Feed the Hungry With Food Stamp Programs

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to the history of food stamp programs.
Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the end of World War II.