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Map Analysis
Lesson 3 - PHOTO ANALYSIS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

This lesson introduces students to the Civil Rights Movement’s direct-actions against segregation. In the 1960s, the New Orleans chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality participated in the Freedom Rides throughout the South. Students will examine a collection of photographs that includes four mug shots of C.O.R.E. activists and a Mississippi cotton field.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
LESSON 4 - CREOLIZATION PART 2: READING ANALYSIS
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
In this lesson students will closely analyze readings to which they were introduced in the previous lesson. These readings will increase their understanding of creole culture and the process of creolization. Many of the ideas will be challenging, and involve issues of racism and colonization.
A Long Way to Santa Fe
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Trading on the Santa Fe Trail
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Overview: Kansas Historical Society offers a highly interactive exploration of life and culture on the trail through the use of a traveling resource trunk. The trunk provides educators with a variety of primary source documents, historical artifacts and photographs. The lessons focus on Kansas and United States history; Most lessons require the physical use of the trunk items.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This lesson is designed to review the purpose of the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. The students will also expand their knowledge of each trail and put a plan together for a trip on each trail. This plan will include a packing list for their wagons. The students will use primary sources to help form their plans and packing list.
Learning about the Homestead Act
Migration Patterns
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
To engage students in the process of data analysis, looking at maps of migration patterns to identify which birds migrate through the area and which do not.
The Bloodiest Day in American History -- Hope for Freedom
George Washington Carver - An Original Conservationist: Sharing the Soil
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

For this activity students will create a brochure for farmers. The brochure will describe the needs each crop has (soil type, weather, etc.), the impact of the crop on the soil and the different ways the crop can be used. Students will focus on cotton, tobacco, peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. The goal is for students to understand the impact cash crops may have on soil quality and how farmers can replenish their soil through crop rotation.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
African Americans During the Civil War: A Compressed History
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
Antietam Then and Now
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will study historic photographs, sketches, and paintings of the battle and then compare them to modern photographs of the battlefield. They will then complete a writing assignment that compares the battlefield then and now. Skills: Reading, writing, utilization and analysis of primary sources, group discussion.
The Battles of Saratoga: Student reading activity
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This activity gives a summary account of the Battles of Saratoga. Using a short reading passage, students will answer several questions. Some of the questions require only knowledge-level responses, while others require a degree of analysis to answer the questions.
Be A Historian!
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Tallgrass Prairie: A Multidisciplinary Curriculum
- Type: Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Prepare students for a visit to the 81-acre tallgrass prairie at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. Activities strenghten skills in observation, analysis, and interpretation in the field and in the classroom. Activities are written with middle school students in mind, but may be appropriate for other ages.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This lesson plan includes mapmaking, class discussions, image and writing analysis. Students have the opportunity to learn about the Mormon Pioneer and Oregon Trail through the NebraskaStudies.org site. Here, they will be able to access primary and secondary source documents, as well as a timeline of events on the trail.