Teaching American History Lesson Plan Notebooks
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by Anne Shadwick
June 23, 2006
1. Pathways to the Past: Historical Field
Trips Rhonda Wyrsch elementary/middle time
variable
Adaptable lesson plans for tying field trips to
curriculum. This one used a Lewis and Clark reenactment
in St.
Charles, Missouri.
2. A
Journey Through the
Journals of Lewis and Clark: A Primary Source Enrichment
Unit
Glenn Oney
jr/sr.
high time variable
36 examples of primary source worksheets
with questions for students
to analyze
3. The
Expedition West Jeanette Carpenter (2
notebooks) fourth-sixth
grade 8 class
periods
1.
Who Knew? Beginning
Formulating What is Known and Unknown About the Lewis and
Clark
Expedition
2.
Where Did Lewis &
Clark Stay in Missouri?
3.
Plants & Animals Along
the Lewis and ClarkExpedition
4. The Lewis and Clark Expedition: The
Amazing Race Renee Cebula high
school
1. Unit Introduction
2. Task
1: Race Preparations
3. Task 2: What’s On the Menu?
4. Task 3: Extreme Challenge
5. Exploring the Adventures of Lewis &
Clark Through Research and Activities Jeanne Sneddon junior
high
6 hours
l. We’re Looking for a
Few Good Men
2. What will the Corps of Discovery Need on Their
Expedition?
3. Indian Discovery on the Lewis & Clark
Trail
6. The Mission, Men & Materials
of the Lewis & Clark Expedition Daniel
Lewis high
school 7
hours
1.
Analyze the Missionand Create a List
2. Read Excerpts from the Journal and Create a Newspaper
Page
3. Brainstorm Possible Problems and Prepare for
Success
7. Lewis and Clark:
Missouri History, Geography,
then Westward Ted Johnson high
school 14-16
hours
1. The student will identify the answers to a worksheet
concerning Lewis and Clark by
implementing the ideas or facts presented in a video and recall
information for a Jeopardy game.
2. The student will organize a presentation about one of
the Missouricities on the Lewis and Clark Trail by
employing the research tools.
3. The student will create a historical site for a particular
location on the Lewis and Clark Trail by investigating the cultural
and geographic features.
4. The student will create a map of an area of interest
in Missouriby using the principles of
mapmaking.
5. The student will create a traveling trunk or a time
capsule for Southwest Missouri for future viewing by investigating the
cultural and geographic aspects of Lewis and Clark traveling
trunks.
8. The
Great Journey West, A Legacy to Remember Jane Trosper eighth grade 15-17
hours
1. Louisiana (includes power
point)
2. Join the Corps of Discovery
3. Sacajawea, a Historical Figure
9. Lewis and Clark and the Corps of
Discovery Andy
Ritter junior high
1. Lewis & Clark: The Multiple Intelligences of the Corps of
Discovery
2. Lewis & Clark: By the Numbers
3. A Lewis & Clark Simulation Game
10. It’s A Mystery: Lewis & Clark,
Adventurers & 1800s Medicine Jean Wernel fifth-eighth
grade 18 + hours
1. Mysteries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
2. Men and Women Who
Confront the Unknown
3. Confronting the Unknown: Medical Practices in the
1800s
11. Lewis and Clark Sue
Davis elementary/middle school 8
hours
1. A Daring Challenge
2. Accepting the Challenge
3. A Journey of Discovery
12. Beam Me Up the Missouri, Lewis and Clark:
Let The Journey Begin Belinda
Herndon
fourth grade - Missouri
History 17 hours
1. MissouriWas Not Empty
2. You Bought, What?
3. Who’s Going To Carry
All of That?
13. Introduction to the
Louisiana Purchase
Nicole Boone
eighth grade
1. The Louisiana Purchase
2.
Mapping the Lewis & Clark Trail
3. Members of the Corps of Discovery
14. Eleanor Roosevelt: Champion of Human
Rights
Jean Wernel
junior,
senior high 4
to 5 hours
Information given about Mrs. Roosevelt and examples
of human rights documents for students to write their own Bill of
Rights for a specific group, such as the homeless, elderly,
etc. Worksheet to fill out on Mrs.
Roosevelt.
15. The
Causes of the American Revolution, Told with Special Attention to
the Plight of the Loyalists, Especially Thomas Hutchinson
of Boston
Jason
Navarro
high school - 8
hours
Lecture notes, study guide and three primary source documents to
compare and analyze.
16. Operation Deep Freeze Brenda
R. Durbin
sixth grade 5
hours
Cross-curricular unit (geography, science,
art). Includes
websites and oral history transcript of temporary resident of Antarctica.
17. Declaration of Independence
and the Events
Leading Up to That Event Ginger
Baugh fifth grade 7 hours
Geography activity on mileage traveled by Continental
Congress, diorama and TV commercial activities and section
of worksheets
18. Maria Mitchell-Lighting the
Way Jennifer James
eighth grade 10
hours
Information about her, political cartoons to
analyze. Worksheets charts and strategies for
group work in selecting and presenting a Women’s Hall of Fame to
class
19. Alexander Hamilton-Architect of
the American Nation Jason Navarro
high school 8 hours
Lecture notes and primary source documents to analyze.
20. John Muir-Politics, Philosophy and
History Kathleen
Swift
8th grade gifted 1 to 2
weeks
Students access primary source documents and learn to construct a
FAQ booklet, power point or web page on John Muir.
21. Abigail Adams, Founding
Mother Jerri J. Bollig fifth
grade 5 class
periods
Students create an illustrated timeline and research using
suggested websites, analyzing pictures and documents.
22. The
Escape of Henry ‘Box’ Brown From Slavery: A Lesson
from his Personal Account
Marti Pittman jr/sr high 2
class periods
His primary source account is featured and students write a news
story featuring the viewpoint of a Southerner or a
Northerner.
23. The
Founding Fathers and Founding Mothers and the American
Constitution Dawn
Toler fifth grade 10 hours
Unit on researching
a colonial person. Includes her own web
page and Constitution worksheets.
24. Are
We Our Brothers’ Keeper?
The United
States and the
Holocaust - Glenda
Brown
junior high 4
hours
Human needs analysis worksheet and study guide to be completed
using the Internet.
25. Necessity is the Mother of all
Inventions Sue Holzrichter
junior high 3 hours
Economics lesson on creating a new product, history of M &
M’s and Robert Fulton
scavenger hunt on Internet.
26. Missouri’s Culture Changes as
Seen Through the Eyes of a Childhood Missy DeLozier elementary
2 hours
Oral
history lesson with transcript. Students
use Venn diagrams and 4-square model of paragraph writing to
compare the 1930’s-1980’s with
their lives today.
27. Were the Good Ole Days Really That
Different? An Oral History Lesson for 6th
Grade
Kim
Gilmore sixthgrade 7 hours
1. Were the Good Ole Days Really That
Different?
2.
Poster Promotions for New Deal
Programs
3.
WWII Collage
28. What is Patriotism? Becky Simpson
high school 3 class
periods
Students develop a working definition of patriotism, read oral
history transcript of Vietnam War veteran, contrast Vietnam War with
the American Revolution and develop questions for an interview from
someone from that era.
29. What Is In a Life? Oral History
Tells A Story? Marti
Pittman
sixth/seventh grade
3
hours
Information and oral history transcript included about a Rosie the
Riveter. Primary source documents and sample interview
questions.
30. Great American Lives Through Oral
History Jeanne
Sneddon
junior, senior high 3
hours
Information on how to conduct a
oral history, many websites, Civil War letters
to compare to today’s soldiers and a complete oral history
transcript of a veteran.
31. We Didn’t Start the Fire Marti Pittman junior/senior
high 4
hours
Cassette tape and master list for students to learn what
the lyrics of the song refers to in
20th century history.
32. Take A Trip Through Times with Oral
History During the 1930s and 1940s Crista Bobski
grades four-
twelve 4
hours
Websties given to listen to oral histories and an
oral history transcript from a man who was a local
moonshiner.
33 Recovering
American Lives Through Oral History Donna Marshall
fourth grade 4
hours
Students read “The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse,” learn vocabulary and how to write interview
questions. They practice listening skills during hearing student
interviews.
34. If These Walls Could Talk: American
History Through Madison
Square
Garden
Cheryl
Butterfield
high school 7 to 10
hours
1.
Garden of Dreams
2.
These Walls are Talking
3.
Outside These
Walls
35. New York
City Capital of the
World Nancy Ohmart
junior high 11 class
periods
Notebook includes DVD,
Islandof Hope, Island of Tears
1. Coming to America:
Who, Why, Where From, Where to, When, and How Did They
Come?
2. Famous New Yorkers
3. Great American Landmarks in New York City
36. Strangers in a Strange
Land
Kristen Williams
5th- 9th grades 11
hours
1. Who Were They & Where
Did They Come From?
2. Ellis Island, Processing Immigrants
3. Home Sweet Home, Tenement Housing
37. Passage or
Not? -
Crista Bobski
6th grade 6 to 7
hours
1. Research and Overview of Immigrants
2. Immigration Process of Ellis Island
3. Cultural Diffusion
38. The
New, The Poor, The Rich: Life in America(1880-1920)
-
Darrin Griffin high
school 7 hours
1. Coming to America
2. Living Poor in America(scavenger hunt included)
3. Living Rich in America(power point included)
39. New York
City and the American
Dream Phyllis
McCully
K-6 grades 1
week
Entire
school activity to coordinate with National Children’s Book
Week. Includes music. books. guests. decorations. dress-up
days, multiculturalism,
role-playing and many worksheets.
40. Western Expansion into
Native
American
Land
Kurt
Stumpff
ninth grade
4 to 5 hours
1. Western Expansion: Farmers Tame the Frontier
2. Native American Land Area Map 1890
3. Homesteader v. Native American – Performance
Event
41. A Changing Culture--Exploration,
Encounter and Exchange in the Louisiana
Territory,
1700-1840 Kathleen Swift
seventh-eighth grade
gifted
14- 23 hours
1. Cultural Encounters
2. Perceptions of Authority
3. Trappers, Traders, Explorers, and the
Osage
42. A
Walk in The Past: Whose Shoes Will You
Wear? Ann Odenbrett and Charlotte
Wilson
fourth grade 8
weeks
1. Join Our Wagon Train – Westward Bound
2. Famous Missourians
3. 2020 – Where Are We?
4. Osage People: Before the Paleface
5. Native Americans Made An
Impact in History
6. Bartering With Friends
43. Missouri is Ours – We Stole it Fair and
Square: The Rise and Fall of the Osage Indians in
Missouri
-
Darrin Griffin high school 6
hours
1.
Recalling Missouri’s Early History
2.
Analyzing the Louisiana
Purchase
3.
Evaluating the 1808 & 1825
Osage Treaties
Unit includes a 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' game CD on
Osage
44. The
Evolution of the Native American Economy from Fur-trading to
Present Day - Dustin Craft high school 9
hours
1. Reenacting the Osage Traditional Economy in a Historical
Role Play
2. Researching the Factors of th
Evolution of the Native American
Economy
3. Debating the Issue: Native American Gaming Through the Research
of Newspapers
45. A
Patchwork of Names Melody A. Young
high school
14 hours
1.
In Search of Americans
2.
Distribution Map
3.
American Historical Journeys
Brochure”
46. Joplin--Who’s Your
Daddy? Rocky Biggers
junior high 6-7 class periods
Local
history handout for students to read. Five Themes of Geography used. Study
guide and student activity on the growth of towns.
47. Primary Sources and
Missouri
History Paula Brous
fourth grade
15 class period
Lessons on how to read a primary source and
interpret it, how to write a bibliography, gather information for a
report, suggested Missouritopics and how to make a
power point.
48. The
Civil War in Missouri
With Emphasis
on Barry
County
and Surrounding
Areas Jason Navarro
high school
Lecture notes on Missouri’s Civil War and many primary source documents
to compare and contrast. Casualty lists
included.
49. A Cross-Curricular Look
at Missouri’s Civil
War Sue Davis
fifth grade
7 hours
1. Picture This(math and graphing)
2. On the Border (mapping activity)
3. The Rest of the
Story
50. Catalyst and Casualty
Missouri and the Civil
War Jennifer James
eighth
grade 8 hours
1. Slavery in Missouri1860 Map and Analysis
2. That’s One Way to Look at It
The Camp Jackson Affair
3. Everybody Sing! Expressing Emotion Through Songs of the Civil
War
51. Confused State: Missouri in the Civil
War - Glenda Brown
eighth grade
7.5 hours
1. To Secede or Not to Secede?
2. Where Are the Elephants? Or, What Really Happened at
the Battleof Carthage?
3. Home, Not So Sweet Home: Guerilla Activity
in Jasper County
52. Civil War in the Ozarks Table Top
Simulations--The Battles of Wilson’s Creek,
Pea Ridge, and Westport
Laurence
Bryan
high school
15 class periods
1.
Using Historical Miniatures to Recreate the Battle of Wilson’s
Creek
2. Using Historical Miniatures to Recreate the Battle of Pea Ridge
3.Using Historical Miniatures to Recreate the Battle of Westport
53. Are
You Sure? Civil War in Missouri
-Daniel
Lewis
jr/sr high 6
hours
1. Are You Sure? Battle of Wilson’s Creek
2. Making A Map:
Price’s Missouri Campaign 1864
3. Fact or Fiction: Does the Camera Lie?
54. Battle of Carthage- Tour
Through Time Jeanne Sneddon
eighth grade 3.5
hours
1. Battleof Carthage– Tour Through Time
2.Tales of Terror – Guerilla Warfare in Jasper County
3. Civil War Letters – The Ties That Bind
55. When Johnny Came Home: Life After
World War II Kristen Williams
high school 10
hours
Veteran oral history transcript included, websites listed
and activities for
students to learn how to conduct one
themselves.
56. NYC
Culture Diversity Kate
Crawford
eighth grade 8
hours
1. New York City, Culture and You
2. Fight * Stereotyping *
Fight
3. What is Culture?
57. Using Oral History to Teach About the
Great Depression Marlene
Moran high school 8
hours
Includes overheads about Dust Bowl, Procter and Gamble
simulation, taped oral history interview.
58. Are
You Now or Have You Ever Been?
Steve Mann
high school
3-4 hours
A student
research/reenactment of the HUAC investigations into the search for
'communist sympathizers' in the U.S. of the 1950’s.
59. An
Introduction to the Civil War - Nicci
Pierson
elementary/middle school 3
hours
1. An Introduction to the Civil War
2. Mapping the Civil War
3. The Local Impact of the Civil War
Notebook contains many pages of information on Civil War heroes and
heroines, coloring book pages and flags.
60. World War II Hits Home: Looking at the War
Through the Eyes of a Soldier on the Front
Dustin Craft
high school 3-4
eighty minute periods
Notebook includes an oral history interview as well as web sites
with oral histories
61. Dred Scott- Newspapers in
Education Page Jerri Bollig
fourth grade
Notebook used to develop the Joplin Globe page. Worksheets, student
play and many sources and information about Dred Scott
62. Yo-ho-ho and a Bottle of Rum Crista
Bobski
sixth
grade 10-12 hours
Cross-curricular for also reading Treasure
Island. Many handouts and information
given about Golden Age of Pirates
63. Colonial America and the Men and
Women who Helped Form Early America: Biography Project
on the Influential Figures of Colonial America
Jari
Jacobs high school 6 to 7
hours
Students research from a list given, writing a paper and a
poster. 'Connecting lives' worksheet
is included for them
to discover relationships between these famous colonial
people.
64.Whose Side Are You On? Patriots and
Loyalists in the American Revolution Jennifer James
eighth grade
Students make a graph showing percentages of Loyalists, Patriots and those who remained neutral. Other student
activities are writing a paragraph and newspaper
headlines.
65. Statue of Liberty
Kathe Athey
fifth grade
12 class periods
1.
What Does the Statue of Liberty Mean to Us Today/
2.
The New Colossus
3.
The Life and Times of the Statue
of Liberty
66. The
Civil War
Catherine Summers
fourth grade
1.
Why Civil War?
2. Battlein
your Backyard: Wilson’s
Creek
3. People in War
67. American Dreamers: John Winthrop
and Martin Luther King Jr. Kathleen Swift
ninth-tenth grade
gifted
5
hours
Students compare and contrast both men/\’s vision through the use
of primary sources. Student product is a poster, power point, or
duet presentation.
68. Talking Tombstones
Rhonda
Wyrsch
6th grade and up
Information about cemetery symbols, iconography, common cemetery
plants and lists of Jasper County, Mo,
Civil War graves.
69. Jews in America--Life as a Jewish
American Citizen during World War II Amber Hemphill
high school
5 to 7 hours
Students assume role of a Jewish person- hang yellow stars from the
ceiling to represent each one. Take down if they
die. Role-playing, journaling, research.
70. African American Heroes and Heroines Sue Holzrichter seventh-eighth grade 5 lessons
71. Jamestown Revisited:
Development, Settlement, Failures and
Successes of the Jamestown Colony,
1607-1671 Carol Ann Patterson
fifth grade 12
hours
Cross
curricular unit to use with A Lion to Guard Us. Use of
primary sources, reading strategies, focus cards, graphic
organizers.
72. 1607-1732: Settlement of the New England Colonies Thomas L. Tabb, Jr. ninth grade 10-12 hours Interactive websites, timeline and graphic organizer activities
73. Mary Rowlandson’s Indian Captivity
Narrative Written Under Puritan Influence
Nancy Ohmart
sixth through eighth grades 4
hours
Power Point included and three cartoons to analyze.
Copy of
primary source account. Candy
activity to illustrate “Indian giver.”
74. John Smith and His JamestownExperience Debbie Neill
fifth grade
17 class periods
several primary sources included in
notebook for students to use to research,. Map-making
(climate & topography), a play to read, guides in writing
a research paper.
75. FDR
and the Holocaust Nicole Boone
high school
5 to 7 hours
Primary documents to analyze, including very
moving Shaef document, handouts for a mock trial, DVD included
about Dachaupost-war trials.
76. We Shall Overcome--The
Determination, Courage and Commitment of Civil Rights Activists
During the 1950s and 1960s Darrin Griffin
high school 6
hours
1. Determination: Daisy Bates and the little Rock Nine (Power
point)
2. Courage: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and the Foot Soldiers
of Alabama
3.
Commitment: Viola Liuzzo and the
Civil Rights Martyrs
77. America’s Achilles’ Heel--Athletics--The Holocaust vs.
Sports: The Changing Views of Nazi Germany in the
US
Media as a Result of the 1936 Olympics
in Berlin Barb Roberts
11th grade 5
hours
Students research on the Internet and then debate the
issue.
78. The St. Louis Affair: An Affair