Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Materials

View, print, or download free lesson plans and study aids designed for use in K–12 classrooms. Browse our full collection of lesson plans and teaching resources.

LESSON PLANS

• Americans All: Foreign-born Soldiers and World War I by John McNamara and Ron Nash
• Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Immigration and Migration: History through Art (Grades 3–5) by Tim Bailey
• Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Immigration and Migration: History through Art (Grades 6–12) by Tim Bailey
• Norwegian Immigration in the Nineteenth Century
• The Jungle

VIDEO BASED ON A TRAVELING EXHIBITION

• Immigration: An American Story

TIMELINES

• Timeline: American Immigration: 1565–2017
• US Immigration since 1850: A Statistical and Visual Timeline

OTHER RESOURCES

• Historical Context: Movies and Migration
• Study Aid: The Language of Cultural Mixture and Persistence