Students will be introduced to the first African American Regiment that fought in the Civil War through a memorial sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. They will compare and contrast the experiences of these soldiers through their...

Students will explore life on a nineteenth-century farm by analyzing a painting of "Mahantango Valley Farm" and researching the Manual of Agriculture (1862). They will then write a journal entry of a day in the life of a young person on...

Use this teacher's guide to plan how you'll integrate video clips, biosketch readers, and graphic organizers for Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum across your Grade 1-2 classroom curricula. From guided reading to a living wax museum,...

Thinking creatively about written language is an important communication skill developed by this lesson, which can be used with passages from any book being read by students. Includes student handout and evaluation rubric.

This lesson plan has a new approach to vocabulary building where students generate their own vocabulary word lists and research the words' meanings.