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Primary Source Lesson Plans
Lesson plans for students in grades 4-12 from the Library of Congress

Civics/Gov | Poetry/Lit | 1585-1763 | 1783-1815 | 1815-1860 | 1861-1877 | 1876-1900 | 1900-1929 | 1929-1945 | 1945-1968

Using Primary Sources

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-8	Artifact RoadShow	5-8	History Firsthand

Civics & Government

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-6	Voices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies	6-9	Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit
6-12	Created Equal?	6-12	In Congress Assembled
7-10	Sea Changes: A Study of a New England Industry	8-12	Great Depression & 1990s
8-12	George Washington	8-12	Explorations in American Environmental History
8-12	Reservation Controversies	9-12	Our Changing Voices
9-12	Conservation at a Crossroads	9-12	From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
9-12	Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks & Traditions
10-12	Suffragists and Their Tactics	11-12	All History Is Local
11	The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?

Poetry & Literature

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-8	Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal	5-8	Visions in the Dust
6-8	The Civil War through a Child's Eye	6-8	Jacob Have I Loved
7-9	Enhancing a Poetry Unit with American Memory	7-10	Sea Changes: A Study of a New England Industry
7-12	To Kill a Mockingbird	8-12	Recreation Yesterday and Today
9-12	Twain's Hannibal	10-12	1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
8-12	Figuring Somepin 'Bout the Great Depression	11-12	The Grapes of Wrath - Scrapbooks and Artifacts
11	Murder and Mayhem - The Great Gatsby: Facts behind the Fiction

Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763

Grade	Lesson Title
4-8	Tinker, Tailor, Farmer, Sailor

The New Nation, 1783-1815

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-8	Journeys West	4-12	America Dreams
6-12	In Congress Assembled	6-12	Created Equal?
8-12	George Washington	11	The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation?

National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-6	Voices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies	4-8	Journeys West
4-8	Marco Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage	4-12	America Dreams
7-12	Women: Struggle and Triumph	9-12	Women, Their Rights & Nothing Less
10-12	Suffragists and Their Tactics

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-6	Voices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies	4-12	America Dreams
5-8	Photojournalism	5-12	What Do You See?
6-8	The Civil War through a Child's Eye	6-12	Links to the Past
7-12	Mathew Brady Bunch	7-12	Women: Struggle and Triumph
8	New Deal: North Carolina	8-12	Tracking Down the Real Billy the Kid
9-12	Women, Their Rights & Nothing Less	9-12	America at the Centennial
9-12	After Reconstruction	10-11	Ladies, Contraband, and Spies: Women in the Civil War
10-12	Suffragists and Their Tactics

Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-6	Voices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies	4-12	America Dreams
5-8	Nature's Fury	5-12	Images of our People
5-12	What Do You See	6-8	Around the World in 1896
6-8	Down the Rabbit Hole	6-8	Turn-of-the-Century Child
6-9	Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit	6-12	Child Labor in America
6-12	Doing the Decades	6-12	Links to the Past
6-12	Who Really Built America?	7-12	Stand Up and Sing
7-12	Thank You, Mr.Edison	7-12	Women:Struggle and Triumph
8-10	United We Stand	8-12	Tracking Down the Real Billy the Kid
9-12	America at the Centennial	9-12	From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
11-12	Two Unreconciled Strivings	9-12	Our Changing Voices
9-12	Rounding the Bases	9-12	Women, Their Rights & Nothing Less
9-12	Linking the Past to the Present: The Legacy of French Canadian Immigrants in New England
10-12	1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions	10-12	Suffragists and Their Tactics
11	To Market, To Market

Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-12	America Dreams	5-8	Nature's Fury
5-12	Images of Our People	6-8	Around the World in 1896
6-8	Down the Rabbit Hole	6-8	Living History Project
6-8	Mapping My Spot in History	6-8	Thank You, Mr.Edison
6-8	Turn-of-the-Century Child	6-9	Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit
4-8	Child Labor in America	4-8	Doing the Decades
6-12	Exploring Cultural Rituals	6-12	Port of Entry
6-12	Grandparent/Elder Project	6-12	German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest
6-12	Who Really Built America?	7-12	Stand Up and Sing
7-12	Recreation Yesterday and Today	8-10	Sea Changes: A Study of a New England Industry
9-12	Linking the Past to the Present: The Legacy of French Canadian Immigrants in New England
9-12	Our Changing Voices	9-12	Rounding the Bases
9-12	From Jim Crow to Linda Brown	9-12	Women, Their Rights & Nothing Less
10-12	What Are We Fighting For?	10-12	1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
10-12	Suffragists and Their Tactics	11	Immigration Through Oral History
11	When Work is Done	11	Murder and Mayhem-The Great Gatsby: Facts behind the Fiction
11	To Market, To Market	11-12	Two Unreconciled Strivings

Great Depression/World War II, 1929-1945

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-12	America Dreams	5-8	Nature's Fury
5-8	Nothing to Fear	5-8	Visions in the Dust
5-12	Images of Our People	6-12	Doing the Decades
7-9	Enhancing a Poetry Unit with American Memory	7-10	Sea Changes: A Study of a New England Industry
7-11	Great Depression & 1990s	7-12	Grandparent/Elder Project
7-12	To Kill a Mockingbird	7-12	Using Oral History
8	New Deal: North Carolina	8-12	Recreation Yesterday and Today
8-12	What is an American?	9-12	From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
9-12	Our Changing Voices	9-12	Rounding the Bases
9-12	Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks & Traditions
10	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime	10-12	Figuring Somepin 'Bout the Great Depression
11	Immigration/Migration	11	When Work is Done
11-12	The Grapes of Wrath - Scrapbooks and Artifacts

Postwar United States, 1945-1968

Grade	Lesson Title	Grade	Lesson Title
4-8	America Dreams	4-8	Images of Our People
4-8	Sea Changes: A Study of a New England Industry	4-8	Great Depression & 1990s
4-8	When Work is Done	4-8	From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
4-8	Jackie Steals Home	4-8	Rounding the Bases