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Lesson Plans: Grades 6-8

The following lesson plans are best suited to students in Grades 6-8:
  • African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
  • The American Dream
  • American Indian Reservation Controversies
  • The American West: Images of Its People
  • Around the World in 1896
  • The Bill of Rights: Debating the Amendments
  • Child Labor in America
  • Civil War Photographs: The Mathew Brady Bunch
  • Civil War Photographs: What Do You See?
  • Civil War Photojournalism: A Record of War
  • The Civil War Through a Child's Eye
  • Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local
  • The Declaration of Independence: From Rough Draft to Proclamation
  • Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
  • The Evolution of the Book: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis
  • Explorations in American Environmental History
  • Family Customs Past and Present: Exploring Cultural Rituals
  • Found Poetry with Primary Sources: The Great Depression
  • French Canadian Immigrants in New England
  • Geography and Its Impact on Colonial Life
  • German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest
  • The Grapes of Wrath: Scrapbooks and Artifacts
  • The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People
  • How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market
  • The Huexotzinco Codex
  • Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
  • Immigration and Oral History
  • The Immigrant Experience: Down the Rabbit Hole
  • Immigration History Firsthand
  • Immigration: Our Changing Voices
  • Indian Boarding Schools
  • Japanese American Internment: Fear Itself
  • Journeys West
  • Labor Unions and Working Conditions: United We Stand
  • Local History: Mapping My Spot
  • Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage
  • Mark Twain's Hannibal
  • Migration during the Great Depression: Living History
  • The Minerva Mosaic of the Library of Congress: Taking a Closer Look
  • Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing
  • Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury
  • The New England Fishing Industry: Sea Changes in a Community
  • Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph
  • Oral History and Social History
  • Out of the Dust: Visions of Dust Bowl History
  • Personal Stories and Primary Sources: Conversations with Elders
  • Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved
  • Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View
  • Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts
  • Recreation Yesterday and Today
  • Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
  • Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
  • Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
  • Suffragists and Their Tactics
  • Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America
  • Thomas Jefferson'sLibrary: Making the Case for a National Library
  • The Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking
  • To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective
  • Twentieth Century Entertainment: When Work is Done
  • The U.S. Constitution: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United States
  • Waldseemuller'sMap: World 1507
  • Westward Expansion: Links to the Past
  • Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies
  • Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less
  • World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There?
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