Lesson Plan Environmentalism, Love Canal, and Lois Gibbs, 1953-1997 Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this four-lesson unit
Lesson Plan Evaluating Lyndon B. Johnson’s Character and Efforts during the Civil Rights Era Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Background Information In 1969 Thomas Baker conducted an interview with Roy Wilkins, executive directory of the NAACP, based on Wilkins’s experiences with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. This abridged version of the...
Lesson Plan First Day of Integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas Government and Civics 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Sources Students Entering School Building , National Park Service Book: Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock (1962), or online at Civil Rights Teaching Background Information On the first day of integration at Central High...
Lesson Plan Free Speech in US History, 1917-1988 Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download the middle school lesson unit. Click here to download the high school lesson unit.
Lesson Plan Generations of Chinese in America, 1880s–1940s/1940s–1990s 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download Unit 1. Click here to download Unit 2.
Lesson Plan Going to School, Then and Now: Education in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird Literature 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Overview The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are both written in the voices of children. While each book gives and unabashed commentary of the social mores of the time and place...
Classroom Resources Guided Readings: American Foreign Policy in the 1970s Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 Why are we in South Vietnam? We are there because we have a promise to keep. Since 1954 every American President has offered support to the people of South Vietnam. . . . We have made a national pledge to help South Vietnam...
Classroom Resources Historical Context: American Slavery and Abolition through Hollywood 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Throughout the twentieth century, many influential Hollywood films, such as Birth of a Nation , Gone with the Wind , Glory , and Amistad , have helped shape the way Americans have thought about slavery and its legacy. Birth of a...
Lesson Plan Hubert Humphrey’s Speech to the 1948 Democratic National Convention Government and Civics 11, 12, 13+ Unit Introduction As the United States moved into the post-WWII world, it faced struggles over diversity and race relations. Soldiers returning from Europe recognized the disparities between races in the United States and, by the late...
Classroom Resources Infographic: "Bookending" the Twentieth Century Economics, Geography, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 View this infographic as a downloadable PDF.