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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will identify locations on a street map using accompanying text. They will search a database to find historical photos of the corresponding locations. Using what they have discovered, they will analyze the connection between location and methods of working for change. Taking it further, the students will identify an issue they would like to advocate for and describe a corresponding location to work for that change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment by the National Woman's Party beginning in 1923. They will evaluate a political cartoon to identify different perspectives on the ERA. Students will then respond to the argument presented in the cartoon. Finally, they will predict the possible effect of the ERA on society today.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A learning activity for 4th through 8th grade comparing two versions of Sojourner Truth's Ain't I A Woman speech. Students will identify the main argument of the speech and analyze the different versions to determine which source may be more accurate. Extend the lesson by reciting the speech with expressions and gestures.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students examine a primary source document from the National Woman's Party lobbying records and identify differing perspectives on a political issue, the Equal Rights Amendment. They plan their own lobbying approach based on what they learned. Students then identify an issue and design their own campaign for change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In wartime, women traditionally served either on the home front or as nurses and laundresses. During the U.S.-Mexican War, most women played these traditional roles while others aided the military in non-traditional ways. Read primary documents about female soldiers, war correspondents, and spies.
Indiana Dunes National Park
A Royal Journey
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The goal of A Royal Journey is to spread the voice on conservation and need of this threatened species. We also strive to bring a scientist’s journey into the concept of the student’s thinking. The dynamic timeliness of necessity has inspired the Indiana Dunes National Park to invite and educate students of today and adults of tomorrow to learn and save this imperiled species.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Zora Neale Hurston, U.S. Library of Congress, Reproduction number LC-USZ62-62394 (b&w film copy neg.). Card #2004672085. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004672085/
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students hold a sleep-in as a form of protest in Flint, Michigan in 1967.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Wheat Honeys advertisement. The Left side features a bumble bee holding a gun in each hand and wearing a cowboy hat. The right side features a rocket mid-launch.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This is a GM Delco Transistorized "Hybrid" (vacuum tubes and transistors) radio model 3725156, which was first offered as an option on the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette car models. Photo by Historianbuff, Wikimedia.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors' attempt to prevent Black tenants from moving in. American flag next to a sign that reads: "We want white tenants in our white community," directly opposite the housing project. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A picture of a statue at Kelly Ingram Park called The Four Spirits. This statue honors the lives of the 4 girls who died in the dynamite blast at 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963. Photo courtesy of the Alabama Tourism Department, Chris Granger (photographer).
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Page 2 of Langston Hughes' "Great Migration" poem.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A sign from the Lewis Mountain Campground, a segregated area for African Americans, demonstrates the role of Jim Crow laws on National Parks such as Shenandoah.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Iva G. and Evans B. Davis in front of their home in Flint, Michigan. Photograph. n.d. Davis Family Archives.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Young civil rights demonstrators speaking at a press conference at the Gaston Motel during the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama. Andrew Young (dressed in overalls) is standing behind them. Photo taken 5/8/1963. Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by the Alabama Media Group, http://www.alabamamediagroup.com
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
NPS Employee talking to a group of children in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. She wears the 1962 women's uniform with badge and pill box hat. She is not wearing the uniform coat. NPS History Collection photo by M. Woodbridge Williams.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) paratroopers jump from a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft over Bangladesh during exercise Cope South 14 Nov. 10, 2013. Cope South is an annual bilateral aerial exercise designed to increase the combat readiness and interoperability of the U.S. Air Force and the BAF. Public domain photograph from defenseimagery.mil.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
1958 logo for Billboard Hot 100, Bilboard, wikimedia commons.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
A black and white photograph featuring a woman smiling as she looks at a video call with a baby held up to the screen on the other end. The photograph was taken in 1964, this is an example of early video call technology.