Teacher Lesson Plans

Students will examine primary sources to determine Truman's actions over Israel.

This lesson will help students focus on the needs of the world following World War II and will allow the students to use and understand the importance of political cartoons as a primary source.

Students will be assigned an area of the museum to closely examine during our field trip to the Decision Center. At the museum, students will gather information about their assigned area. If possible, students should take pictures of important displays a

This lesson implements the Socratic Seminar Instructional Method to investigate Women and the Islamic Revolution.

Students will read primary documents from suffrage workers and female WWI contributors to discover their feelings toward not being allowed to vote.

The students will read about events and people significant to the women's suffrage movement in the United States. They will review documents, photographs, poems and listen to music associated with the movement. They will compose a poster using four primary source documents.

Students will read and analyze an excerpt from Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech, delivered to Congress in January 1918. The classroom activity is both an individual and a cooperative learning activity.

This lesson will be a cooperative activity between a pair or group of students that will incorporate primary sources and a writing activity.

Students will study the impact of World War I on wheat farmers, learning how a dramatic world event can impact a small sub-set of people.

Students will present an argument for what was the most significant result of World War I to change the development of the world.

Uses primary documents to engage students in large and small group structured analysis of World War I poems by three different poets.

Working in cooperative learning groups, students will explicate selected poems. Written analysis will be completed on the attached teacher generated analysis guides.

In the classroom students will be creating a list, taking notes, pair sharing, brainstorming, discussing answer, and analyzing posters.

Students will conduct a trial based around the question “How should instigators of war be held responsible for their actions?”

College students will create a 1 week curriculum on the topic of World War I using 3 different information formats for junior high age students.

Students will be able to analyze one or more primary sources in order to take and defend a position on the World War Two atomic bombing in Japan.

This lesson asks students to consider the war years as equally important in pushing for racial equality.

Compare and contrast various types of camps in World War II.

Second grade students will learn about the many important roles that animals played during wartime.

After viewing the MovieMaker presentation titled, "WWI Cemeteries" students will listen to "Will Ye Go to Flanders" by Jane Tabor and complete Song Analysis with teacher.

As part of a geographic study of modern Europe, students will look at maps of Serbia from 1914, 1919 and 2007. As a class, we will discuss changes in the map of Europe over the time period.

Students will use Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Henri Barbusse's Under Fire, and letters written home by American soldiers to compare the experiences of different participants in World War I.

Writing a Persuasive Paper on Civil Rights Legislation during the Truman Presidency

The students will produce a monthly magazine from WWI. The time frame (month) will be chosen to coincide with a particular battle of their choice.

This lessons aims to present an event in history through the eyes of Wilfred Owen to the students, so they can understand the pain, struggle, and consequences of war. Students will then also see how literature can portray history.

Students will fulfill the role of the political leaders at the Conference at Yalta and reenact the conference. They will debate the issues discussed at the conference to determine if they come to the same ends as what actually happened in 1945.

Students will view a variety of examples of WWI propaganda posters and discuss their message and why they were important for the war effort.