1.   The Rise of Railroads Students will use research techniques to investigate the role of railroads throughout American history. Students will write a research report explaining the connection between national U.S. events and advancements in transportation.

2.   Retain Your Integrity: The Life of Alan Cranston In this lesson, students explore the different factors that influence a person to become an elected official. They examine how a famous person views his life and how he lives his life, with emphasis on a vision of a future. They will be acquainted with a person who believes in public service and in world peace.

3.   What Do You See? This resource for teachers provides lesson plans in which students analyze Civil War photographs, and develop links between the Civil War and American industrialization.

4.   Doing the Decades: Group Investigations in Twentieth Century U.S. History This unit provides a flexible investigative structure for the study of selected themes in U.S. history and culture using the American Memory collections and related resources.

5.   Who Really Built America? This resource for teachers provides lesson plans in which students examine child labor in America from 1880-1920 to gain a personal perspective of how work affected the American child within a rapidly growing industrial society.

6.   Jacob Have I Loved Pictures from America From the Great Depression to World War II in American Memory provide visual images to introduce and spark curiosity about Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson, a novel about jealousy set on an island in the Chesapeake Bay in the early 1940s.

7.   U.S. History Timeline U.S. History Timeline is a project that will guide the student in an organized, chronologically; from Explorations and Early Colonial Era to A New Nation Is Born 1790. This project will help students to overview the U.S. history in an organized timeline from the origins to the Declaration of Independence.

1.   American History American History Home Technology Portfolio Name and Description of Activity: A review of American History Curriculum area: Social Studies Children: 3-8 Rationale: I chose this activity because the children enjoy it Objective: Students will be able to: 1. Understand that life is influenced by man's physical environment,...

2.   Hanson!!!!!! HANSON!!!!!! Hi, and welcome to the page dedicated to HANSON!!Well, In this part of my site you will see individual biographies on each brother, a bit of Hanson history, and be sure to check out my picure gallery dedicated to those three blonde brothers!!! Who is your fave brother? Click here to vote!! What is Isaac's nickname? Point and click here to find out What's Taylor's real name? Click to find out Where was Zac born? Click here to find out, and more! Click here...

3.   Writing the History of African American Slave Women _ In This Issue _ A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON SLAVERY: The Historians Perspective Writing the History of African American Slave Women _ _ From the Teachers Desk Overview: The accounts of African American slavery in textbooks routinely conflate the story of male and female slaves into one history. Textbooks rarely enable students to grapple with the lives and challenges of women constrained by the insti...

4.   Deaflympics in History Clerc Center _ Menu: Home Contest People Sports Cultural History Educators' Lounge Video Central Archives Contact Clubhouse Home > Educators' Lounge > Lesson Plan on ?Deaflympics? in History Lesson Plan on ?Deaflympics? in History Content Areas: Math, Social Studies, Language Arts Brief Description Students create charts showing historical statistics on participatio...

5.   Welcome to MGTV Online Mission Statement Programming Policies The MGTV Story FAQ Holidays Staff Employment Copyright Battle Flags: Michigan and the Civil War Lesson 7: I see, I feel, I know Overview: Students will have the opportunity to view a History Channel video to get a compelling look into the feelings and senses of the civilians involved in the Civil War. The student will reflect the images that he/she saw in the video in a "senses" poem. Benchmarks Targeted: I.1.MS.2, I.2.MS.1, I.2.MS.2, I.2.MS.4, I.3.MS.1, I.4.MS.3, II.1.MS.3, II.2.MS.5, VI....

6.   Writing a Short Story Add a School - K-12 Articles - Lesson Plans - Advanced Search Search Public & Private Schools Home >> Free Lesson Plans >> Middle School Lesson Plans Information -Top Public Writing a Short Story History Schools Submitted By: Janet Blaylock -Top Private Schools -Link To Us -Contact Us -Privacy Policy Grade Middle School -About Us Levels: -Terms Subject: History Length of 1 hour Find Old Friends Time: Reunite With All Your Old Friends At Classmates.com Description: Students will choose a period of histo...

7.   Computer Literacy - Internet101 (databases) How did we get the Internet? by Karen Shaw Paul Revere Middle School Houston, Texas Students may click here to go straight to the lesson. Subject Areas: Computer History, Computer Applications, Social Studies Grade Levels: 7th-9th grade Time Requirements: + Approximately 2 hours On-line Search Time + Approximately 2 hours Computer Class Time Student Prerequisites: + Basic Databas...

8.   Week 4 Outline Outline for the Fourth Week on the Titanic Monday: Sensory Remote Sensing (2 hours) Playtime (1 hour) Polar: The Titanic Bear and a Little Imagination (3 hours) Tuesday: Reading & Journal (1 hour) Sensory Remote Sensing (2 hours) Playtime (1 hour) Music Appreciation (2 hours) Wednesday: Reading & Journal (1 hour) Headlines from History (5 hours) Thursday: Reading & Journal (1 hour) Playtime (1 hour) Headlines from History (4 hours) Friday: Playtime Presentations (5 hours) Headlines from History Presentations (1 hour) Return to Title Page The Titanic - de...

9.   The History of the British Army in WW I The History of the British Army in the Great War The Homepage of the 7th Royal Irish Rifles Re-enactors, GWA Welcome! This is the home page of the 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, affiliated living history regiment of the Great War Association, First World War re-enacting. This site has full color diagrams and p...

10.   Mapping History Mapping History Social Studies Student research historical facts relating to the Northeast region of the United States, then create a "history map" of the Northeast. Background From before the Revolutionary War and through modern times, the Northeast has been the location of many events that have become part of the na...