- Lessons created during the 2007 - 08 school year.
- I attended a National Endowment for the Humanities summer workshop in DC focusing on Race and Place. Here is a lesson plan and power point to help you and your classes.
- Native American Issues pdf. Classroom discussion around important issues relating to Native Americans in Washington.
- Using two grants, one in 2005 and and one in 2007, one teacher wrote the first two parts of a teacher resource book on American history from the earliest explorers to 1825. Besides introducing the history, Creating America lists resources and gives suggested activities for each lesson. (PDF doc).
- Lessons created during the 2006 - 2007 school year.
- My students use colonial names for the duration of this unit. They journal for about two months as colonists using a sprinkling of colonial words, first deciding whether or not to go to the New World (using the Colonial Dilemma in "family" groups). They journal about the decision, what to bring, what it feels like getting ready, saying goodbye to friends and neighbors, hearing other languages for the first time on the boat, getting seasick, eating wormy food, surviving a storm, dealing with a death while on the journey, reaching their new home, surviving the starving time during the first winter, watching their colony build up, interactions with the natives, etc. They are required to make colonial Valentines, etc.
- Funding from the grant was used by this teacher to take a class and purchase software in order to create her web site -- Historian in Residence which has lessons and classroom information.
- Here is a lesson about the Fugitive Slave Act for middle school students.
- This lesson is fourth in a series of eight 75-minute sessions. The focus of this series of lessons is: The enduring American values that began shaping our country from the first footfalls in the Southern, Northern and Middle Colonies. In this lesson, we begin to focus on the value of "freedom of religion".
- Take an roadtrip with your students.
- Fifth grade teachers put together this lesson about explorers.
- A high school teacher from Kent created the following four lessons:
- Colonial Seals--A primary document analysis where students are asked to compare and contrast the company seals of the Virginia Company of London and the Massachusetts Bay Company, which funded the founding of Jamestown, VA and the Massachusetts Bay colonies, respectively. Word
- NEH Jefferson Project--A summer assignment for incoming 11th grade Advanced Placement US History students. The project asks students to use Thomas Jefferson as a lens for viewing the new nation. Students watch a documentary film on Jefferson, read scholars' interviews regarding Jefferson, and then write their own evaluative essay. Word
- NEH Jefferson Project Worksheet--A worksheet which accompanies the above project. Word
- Penn's Letter--A primary document analysis where students are asked to evaluate the reasons for settling Pennsylvania. Word
- Lessons created during the 2005 - 2006 school year.
- Who was the greatest American Revolutionary? Word.
- This teacher made two lessons. The first was created after attending a workshop at St. Mary's college in Maryland. In the first lesson, students compare and contrast the founding of the first four British North American colonies, using both primary sources (like the Maryland Act for Religious Toleration) and secondary sources such as student textbooks. The second lesson was created while attending a workshop at George Washington's home, Mount Vernon. In the lesson, students are asked to determine core "American" rights through their study of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the events that led to the American Revolution. Both lessons are aimed at 11th grade US history students.
- A Civil War lesson. (Word. doc.)
- A High School teacher attended the "Can We Talk" workshop on classroom discussions at the University of Washington this past summer.. One of the discussion models that we have been using from this workshop is Socratic Seminar. Attached are some teacher resources and plans developed for using Socratic Seminar in a U.S. History classroom. These are Word documents: Seminar -- Student --Address -- Preamble -- Naturalization. These are PowerPoints: Preamble -- Oath -- Gettysburg.
- How Clothes Speak. Men's Fashion of the Antebellum Period: lesson -- PowerPoint.
- An Ethnographic Investigation into the Lives of Our Native Americans Past and Present from a Junior High School teacher. Lesson.
- Jamestown Relay. Word
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