Explorers Lesson Plans & Activities
UNIT with handouts - European Explorers
Europe And America
Meet, 1492-1673
Explorer Fact Sheets Include: Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro,
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Giovanni Da
Verrazano,
Samuel de Champlain, Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, Martin Frobisher,
Sir Humphry Gilbert, Henry Hudson
Vikings - Lessons, Daily Life, Religion, Norse Myths (Donn)
Was Columbus Smart About Safety
Columbus Day (lessons, activities)
Magellan, Verrazzano, Ortelius, Gulliver, and more (4 lessons)
Magellan - A Man of his Time (lesson, with 3 handouts)
Ferdinand Magellan (2-3 day lesson plan)
Magellan's Route (map)
Magellan (lesson)
Juan Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth
Plan a Vacation with an explorer (lesson)
Marco Polo (visits China) with worksheet
Birth of the Modern World - Age of Exploration (lesson)
Explorers - Create trading cards lesson
Age of Exploration (Core Knowledge) - 3 week unit
Reasons for Exploration (Spain, France)
GUIDE: European Explorers (dates, countries, explorer name, voyage)
Early Explorers of America (Grade 5)
Culture: Upper Elementary Lessons - Explorers (5-8)
Through the Eyes of an Explorer
Exploration - Student Activities
The Experience of Colonialism, 1850-1914
Children's Literature
By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid
Fleischman
13 COLONIES
Lesson Plans & Activities
Crossroads - Elementary, Middle, High School Levels
Global Influence of the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Eras of the Western Hemisphere
Formation and development of the United States
Relationships Between the Colonists and Indians (unit)
Voyage on the Mayflower (lesson)
Why did the settlers come to America (Crossroads)
Colonial America (lessons, activities, school site)
Life in the Colonies (EdWorld)
Colonial Life - Colonial Fair (Leahy)
Core Knowledge: Colonial America Units
Colonial American Activity Ideas
Pilgrims Units, Lessons, Activities (Donn)
New England Colonies (Core, 3rd)
Colonists in the New World UNIT
Creating a Colony in the New Land (Unit, Tefft Middle)
Peg's American History Unit: Colonies
Colonial Williamsburg Site (lessons, daily life, more!)
Global Influence of the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Eras of the Western Hemisphere
Revolutionary War / American Revolution
Crossroads - Elementary, Middle, High School Levels (or try this link: Crossroads )
Causes of the American Revolution (unit)
Core Knowledge: American Revolution Units
Boston Tea Party simulation/storyboards (click on excerpt from the book)
American Revolution Newspaper (lesson)
American Revolution War Timeline (lesson)
Can't you Make them behave, King George?
The American Revolution (lesson idea)
Center for Civic Education Sample Lessons
Formation and development of the United States (50+ pages!)
Eras of Revolution, Expansion, and Reform Prior to the United States Civil War
Revolutionary War (Bill of Rights, Constitution)
American Revolution Student Cartoons (Leahy)
The American Revolution (Student Reports)
The American Revolution (lessons, activities, school site)
The American Revolution (famous people, by kids)
Resources
Declaration
of Independence,
Constitution
& Bill of Rights Amendments
Declaration of Independence Lesson Plan
Amendments 1-27 (Bill of Rights) - list
Bill of Rights UNIT (8th, Dept of Ed, KY)
Creating Classroom Constitutions - Opening Lesson Plan
The Constitution: Principles & Structures of American Democracy
The United States Constitution
Constitution and Economy Lesson Plan
The Constitution in American History Lesson Plans
The Constitution: Debate on Ratification (lesson activity)
Creating a Bill of Rights - Opening lesson plan
>First Amendment Posters Lesson Plan
Freedom of the Press Lesson Plan (Freedom of Speech)
School Violence and the Second Amendment
4th Amendment: Search & Seizure Lesson Plan
4th Amendment: Do I have a right to privacy?
Reworking the Bill of Rights (lesson)
Winning the Right to Vote (19th)
Sufferage Movement from 1840-1920
Sufferage: Susan B. Anthony and more
Women's Rights in the 1800's (lesson plans)
Constitutional Community (35 lesson plans)
PBS Kids - The Democracy Project (unit)
Youth Leadership Initiative - Free Teacher Created Units
What are my rights as an American? (Unit, government, culture, history)
Lesson Plans & Activities
These key topics for War of 1812 are covered by the lessons below
Andrew
Jackson
Battle of New Orleans
Burned Washington
Old Ironsides - USS Constitution
Star Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key
Oh Say Can you Sing (5 lessons)
Core Knowledge - grade 2, lessons on War 1812
Star Spangled Banner, Old Ironsides (Scholastic, War of 1812 webquest)
Resources
Louisiana Purchase
History Note
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The Louisana
Purchase was made available because Napoleon needed money. |
Louisiana Purchase (lessons, classroom play)
The Louisiana Purchase (Lawson)
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Wars & Actions |
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Lesson Plans
Mexican American War (unit, 3 weeks)
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War Between the States |
Our Lesson Plans
Letters from the Civil War (Donn)
Lesson Plans by Many Authors
Slavery and Events Leading to the Civil War (Bedford Schools unit)
How
did slavery impact our nation (unit)
War Between the States (unit)
The United States Civil War (50 pages)
War Between the North and South (Civil War)
Crossroads - Elementary, Middle, High School Levels
A View From Me (Civil War Stories, Mississippi teachers)
Calendar Creations about the Civil War (lesson)
Death and the Civil War (science lesson)
Abraham Lincoln (mock trial, lessons, Presidents Day activities)
Role Playing the American Civil War
The Blue & The Gray Project (student work)
Civil War: Causes, Conflicts, Consequences (5-7, CK)
1850: The Two Faces of Slavery (click on excerpt from the book)
Harriet Tubman & Slavery - The Underground Railroad
Era: Civil War Literature (6-8)
Reconstruction: A Time of Turbulence UNIT (5)
Reconstruction: Unfinished Business (lesson, activity)
Civil War: Continuity or Change? Reading Slave Codes 1940's, Jim Crow Law, Reconstruction
Civil
War and Reconstruction Webquests
Problems of
African Americans in the South
using pamphlets and other materials (online), most of which
were written by African American authors about pressing issues of the day.
Our Lesson - Primary Documents, Opening Lesson Civil War Unit (Donn)
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Progressive Era
Imperialism
Lesson Plan Age of Imperialism & Teachers Guide
Empire Beyond the Seas Imperialism UNIT
Concept and Developments of the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries
1900-1920 - Free PowerPoint Presentations
1920's Rise of Consumer Culture (advertising) UNIT
American Cultural History (1920-1929)
1920/1930 (activities, school site)
1930's & The Great
Depression & The New Deal
1930's Life on the Farm
during the Great Depression
Not everyone felt the effects of the depression in the same manner.
People who had little to begin with had always coped.
New Deal Network Great Depression Lesson Plans
&
Images of the Depression Era (lesson plans)
Great Depression and World War II (50+ pages of activities)
Up Close & Personal (Begins with Great Depression)
EdWorld Great Depression Lesson Ideas
Brother, can you spare a dime?
American Cultural History (1930-1939)
The Cold War - Free PowerPoint Presentations
Civil Rights Movement (40's, 50's, 60's)
Turbulent Times of the 60's UNIT
Cuban Missile Crisis (To be or not to be)
1950's Television changes the world
Mrs Laddish's 1900 - 1990 Decades Project
American Dream of the Decades (lesson)
School Sites
Civil War (reading lessons, activities, quiz, school site)
Resources
Civil War Ends - A Child's Diary (primary document)
Civil War Archives - Finding your ancestors (free)
Civil War Clipart (Florida Ed)
Teaching the Holocaust (Grades 4-7)
Holocaust Unit (CoreKnowledge)
Holocaust Educational Resources for Teachers
A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust
The Diary of Anne Frank & Night