Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Decades Mural Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Lesson for social studies teachers whose students are studying various decades.
Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Feminism Reborn

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
Article
University of Virginia

Virginia Center for Digital History: United States Expansion, 1800 1860

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay that looks at issues affecting Americans leading up to the Civil War. These included economic changes that led to new ideological, social, cultural, and political issues that further divided the nation along moral and regional...
Article
Arizona State University

Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: France Since 1871

For Students 9th - 10th
This course of twenty-four college video lectures covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization,...
Handout
Henry J. Sage

Sage American History: The Progressive Era: 1896 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive and detailed look at the changing political, social and economic landscape during the Progressive Era, 1896-1920. Readers will find well-organized links to readings, documents and external sources.
Website
Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
Primary
Brown University

World War Ii: Diversity in American Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed and comprehensive picture of the social changes and events in the United States during World War II. Includes legislation and its effects, race riots, the position of women in the work force, African Americans and job...
Website
Other

Pro Publica: Journalism in the Public Interest

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An independent newsroom that covers a wide variety of topics and events, which are often neglected by the mainstream media, and works to promote change. Explore investigative reports on politics, social-justice issues, technology, and...
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 3: The Growing Republic

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive learning module examines how the United States' efforts to increase foreign trade, add new territory, and isolate itself from Europe affected its foreign policy and other initiatives. It investigates how advances in...
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Equal Rights Amendment.
Handout
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Reconstruction in Georgia

For Students 9th - 10th
After the Civil War ended, Georgia was in a state of chaos. Learn all about the Reconstruction in Georgia from 1865-1871 and how it changed the state politically, socially, and economically.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes: Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspire civic awareness, promote student activism and examine the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship by exploring stories of how ordinary citizens accomplished extraordinary changes.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes: Student Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship focusing on examples of citizens who took action to effect positive changes. Explore ways in which students can become involved in their communities.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Jeffersonian Ideology

For Students 5th - 8th
An easy to understand overview of the thinking of Thomas Jefferson in terms of politics and the role of the people in political action. See what he feared as the nation was becoming industrialized, and read about the contradictions in...
Website
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Global America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Comprehensive teaching unit on globalization's influences on the political and social structure of America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Includes a look at how immigration has affected a changing America. Contains video and...
Website
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Roccoco to Realism

For Students 9th - 10th
From the early 18th to the mid-19th century, dynamic transformations in European art mirrored turbulent political and social changes, including revolutions, imperial conquests, and the emergence of the modern industrial age....