Add engaging new material to Harriet Tubman and Civil War curricula with a crisply designed, two-page reading about the famous abolitionist. The text details a military raid she led against the Confederate army, informs readers about Tom...

Fourth graders investigate the style of diary writing as its own genre of literature. They read Harriet The Spy in order to have a text for this literature study. Students use the skill of prediction to preview the story, and then...

Students examine websites about the book, "Harriet the Spy." There are suggested classroom activities, such as having students keep a journal of their observations. Also includes tips on how to teach students to use descriptive writing.

Harriet Tubman developed a rich extended metaphor for slavery and the imperative for Lincoln to abolish it in this dictated letter from 1862. Young historians read the original document and interpret Tubman's allegory with a pair of...

Students research Harriet Tubman via an Underground Railroad website in cooperative groups. They identify Tubman's first route to freedom and organize information gleaned from the research in a visual display (created in KidPix.)

In this family activity worksheet, students work with family members to discover the various shapes of objects around them. Students complete the presented activity and respond to 2 short answer questions about what they have discovered...

Learners examine the role of women during the Civil War investigating their roles as spies, soldiers, and nurses.

Students discuss the many different types of animal signs that can be used to identify and track animals. They participate in an hands-on activity in which they examine tracks, trails, homes, territory markings, and even "scat" left by...

Studying African American history? Explore and discuss famous African Americans such as Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, and more. Simple bulleted facts detail the heroic deeds of these individuals. Use...

Students participate in a reading literacy that focuses on the skill of summarization. They delete trivial details and redundancies, place items and events in order, and create a statement that contains the message the writer is trying...

Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.

Harriet Tubman is best known for the Underground Railroad, but she also served critical roles in our federal government during the Civil War and requested a federal pension for her work. Congress debated whether or not to extend to her a...

Find out more about Rose O'Neal Greenhow and three other female informants who played a significant role in America's bloodiest conflict, the Civil War.

Harriet Tubman's eyewitness accounts as a Union spy during the Civil War.

This lesson uses primary sources - diaries, letters, and photographs - to explore the experiences of women in the Civil War. By looking at a series of document galleries, the perspectives of slave women, plantation mistresses, female...

Learn more about the runaway slave named "the Moses of her people." Harriet Tubman's life was dedicated to helping others. Read more about her adventures during the Civil War and her continuing bravery.