Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning Empathy Through Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe the painting, From That Day On, by Ben Shahn, and reflect on the story of the Lucky Dragon. They research and discuss the physical and emotional side effects on the Japanese people after the atomic bomb was dropped.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Just How Small is a Nanoparticle?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine the size of a nanoparticle. In small groups, they calculate the actual size of a particle shown in a photo, and discuss how they arrived at their answers.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Portraits That Capture Character

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners explore the definition of a portrait. In this portrait analysis lesson, students discuss two of Dorothea Lange's portraits and create their own portraits of their classmates.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ticket to the Past: The First 25 Years of the Missouri State Fair

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students use the internet to gather information about Missouri's state fairs. They work together to complete a worksheet about the online exhibit. They discover the purpose of state fairs.
Primary
Other

Indiana Historical Society: Digital Image Collections

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Vast database of images and artifacts tells the story of Indiana and its people. Search by keyword or browse preset special collections of notable Hoosiers, the history of African Americans in Indiana, or Indiana military history, among...
Lesson Plan
Other

Digital Imaging in Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
Primary
Library of Congress

World Digital Library: United States History: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of primary source materials presented on a timeline that showcase events in the history of the United States from 1625 on. Click on an image to go to a page with descriptive information about each item. Each description has...
Primary
Library of Congress

World Digital Library: United States History: Map

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source materials linked to a map that explore a wide scope of events in the history of the United States from 1492 on. Click on any numbered circle and a popup appears showing one or more thumbnails and where the...
Primary
Other

New York Public Library: Images of African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
An image database that includes pictures of African Americans from the 19th Century. Each image includes a description.
Website
University of California

University of California, Davis: The History Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The History Project is a growing collection of lesson plans, teaching tools, digitized images, and documents for the teaching of history. Includes assignments for having students apply analytical skills to primary sources.
Website
Other

From History to Her Story:yorkshire Women's Lives Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Showcased are the lives of women in Yorkshire, England, from the 2nd century CE to the present day. The site presents 85,000 digitized images and microfilmed documents from the collections of the archives and libraries in and around...
Primary
Library of Congress

World Digital Library: World History: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of primary source materials presented on a timeline that showcase events in the history of the world beginning with Moses and the Ten Commandments in 1240 B.C. Click on an image to go to a page with descriptive information...
Primary
Library of Congress

World Digital Library: World History: Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of primary source materials linked to a map that explore a wide scope of events in the history of the world. Click on any numbered circle and a popup appears showing one or more thumbnails and where the material is located....
Unit Plan
Virginia Tech

Digital History Reader: Which Side Are You On? The Flint Sit Down Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
The first conflict between a corporation and labor union materialized in Flint, Michigan in the 1930's. Identify the tensions between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers during this time through Context, articles, images,...
Unit Plan
Virginia Tech

Digital History Reader: Did World War Ii Advance Minorities, Women, and Poor?

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit probing into the progressive development of women, minorities, and the poor as a result of World War II. Pore over documents and images, circumstances, probing questions to understand what might have caused the societal...
Unit Plan
Virginia Tech

Digital History Reader: Who Won? Student Protest and Politics of Campus Dissent

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore American college students' political views, convictions, and concerns in the midst of the war in Vietnam through several articles, images, further reading, and writing assignments. Student protests on campuses across the nation...
Handout
Other

Rochester Images: The Erie Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of digitized images that reflect the time and life on the Erie Canal.
Handout
Other

Archives & Museum Informatics: The Digital Hammurabi Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the Digital Hammurabi Project at The Johns Hopkins University. Its purpose is to advance scanning technology in order to produce high-quality 3-D images of cuneiform tablets, and to store these in a digital library...
Primary
Library of Congress

World Digital Library: Chinese Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Prints: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of primary source materials presented on a timeline that explore the history of China from 1200 B.C. to 1931. Click on an image to go to a page with descriptive information about each item. Each description has an audio...
Activity
Other

Gutenberg Digital: Gutenberg and the Gutenberg Bible

For Students 9th - 10th
An incredible website offering the entire Gutenberg Bible, information about Gutenberg and the history of printing. Rich variety of images and a wealth of information. Loading times will be slow, so be patient. Interactive and complete -...
Website
Other

Wsu: Virtual Motor City Collection (Detroit News)

For Students 9th - 10th
Peruse this collection of over 800,000 photographs offering an illustrated history to the city of Detroit, Michigan.
Website
Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Basic Concepts in Optical Microscopy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the microscope in great detail. Content includes a focus on the microscope's basic functions (including a general diagram), the history of the microscope, each feature of the microscope, differing objectives,...
Graphic
Other

Israel Museum: Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

For Students 9th - 10th
Virtual exhibit gives users access to some of the most important ancient manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls. Provides images, short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history.
Primary
Digital History

Digital History: Coexistence and Conflict in the Spanish Southwest

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the testimony of a Pueblo Indian, captured by the Spanish after the Revolt of 1680, giving his ideas of why the Indians attacked the Spanish and destroyed the images of Christianity they found.