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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: United States Entry Into World War I: A Documentary Chronology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
EDSITEment offers unit with three lessons that examines the views of whether the U.S. should enter World War I, the reasons for entering the war, and a chronololgy of events that led up to the U.S. entry to the war. A complete plan with...
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University of California

History Project: Lincoln and the Outbreak of War, 1861

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using primary source documents, this middle school lesson plan focuses on Lincoln's role in the outbreak of the Civil War, specifically his actions as President during his first six weeks in office.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sedition in World War I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read anti-war literature from World War I critics to...
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Stanford University

Stanford History Educaiton Group: Cold War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students use primary source material to evaluate issues and perspectives surrounding the Cold War. Lesson plan, PowerPoint and original documents.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Civil War: The Nation Moves Toward War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Examine the causes of the Civil War using primary source documents. This lesson plan gives background on the Civil War, includes a timeline, and a bibliography for further reading. Primary source documents include music, newspapers,...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Chronicling America: Uncovering a World at War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Chronicling America: Uncovering a World at War." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Great War (World War I Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Eight lesson plans for exploring aspects of World War I, also known as the Great War, with instructions for introducing middle-school learners to the causes of the conflict; to the great symbol of the war's stalemate--the trenches; to...
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Other

Lesson Plan: The Civil War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The books about the Civil War period written for young audiences provide a rich context in which to learn about the war itself and to explore more basic issues about the nature of human life and society. This lesson plan for an upper...
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University of Pittsburgh

Center for American Music Library: Civil War Homefront

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A great lesson plan using Stephen Foster's music and lyrics to show what life was like on the homefront during the Civil War.
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PBS

Flashpoints Usa: Looking Back at the Decision to Go to War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provides students with a discussion which will help them try to understand the decision to go to war with Iraq. Media, standards, procedure, and discussion questions are provided and give students an idea of how and why the decision for...
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Library of Congress

Loc: u.s. Participation in the Great War (World War One)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview of the Progressive Era to New Era (1900-1929) through the use of primary sources provided by the Library of Congress, with concentration on World War One. Through these documents, the effects of the war on...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts Through Web Based Inquiry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for six 50-minute lessons where students create internet scavenger hunts in order to learn about the effects of the war on certain groups. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains...
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Other

Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Was it possible to manipulate photographs during the Civil War? Teach your students about critical viewing through this innovative instructional activity and engage them in discussion, analysis and research to explain their findings.
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Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society: The Black Hawk War, 1832

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is accompanied by original accounts from participants in the Black Hawk War, with extensive information on the relocation of the Sauk and Fox Indian tribe.
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Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Iraq After War: Securing the Peace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interactive lesson places students in the role of decision-makers as they explore divergent policy alternatives concerning how the post-war period in Iraq should be handled, who should be in charge, and what the goals should be.
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Rules of War: Choices: Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson and activity on rules of war and the decision to drop the atomic bomb during WWII.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Homer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider "Homer's Civil War Veteran: Battlefield to Wheat Field." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work Before the Civil War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Was There an Industrial Revolution? Americans at Work Before the Civil War." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: President Madison's 1812 War Message

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "President Madison's 1812 War Message" in 3 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Love of War in Tim O'brien's

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for six lessons that use Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" to explore the relationship between war and love. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Weapons of World War I

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The learners will use the Internet and the school's media center to discover the weapons of World War I. They will compare and contrast the weapons used during that time period with the weapons that are used in warfare today. At the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Spy Techniques of the Revolutionary War: Culper Code Book

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a primary source and transcript students decipher and create historically-accurate spy communications like those used by George Washington and the Culper Spy ring in the American Revolutionary War.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students begin this lesson by discussing what makes a good, vivid story and creating a working checklist of the criteria for a good story. They explore background information about the Mercury Theatre production of the "War of the...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Alabama Dept. Of Archives and History: Wwi and Alabama's Rainbow Division [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
This lesson plan contains a PowerPoint and other downloadable resources on World War I and Alabama.

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