Teacher Lesson Plans

This lesson will give students the opportunity to hear from other presidents and think about how their character/president might relate to them. It gives the students an opportunity to become a certain president – to look at presidents in a slightly different manner.

Students will learn about Presidential State visits and dinners through the powerpoint of pictures about Gerald Ford’s presidency of hosting and attending state dinners. (He is used as an example since he hosted the most state dinners as President.) Then students will look at an infographic about the continents that are most visited by Presidents for state dinners.

Get student to make connections between documents and history using Civil War primary sources.

Students will learn cause and effect for the historical event of Bleeding Kansas.

Investigate other sources to determine Cause(s) and Effect(s) of various early Cold War events.

Students will be assigned the task of making two 6 panel cartoons that illustrates the desire for Prohibition and the repeal of prohibition. The students will create these cartoons after reading the 18th and 21st Amendment and viewing news reel footage.

Introduce second graders to computer use through a variety of activities

Students will learn the reasons for the US entering WWI, as well as being exposed to WWI propaganda which can be related to wartime propaganda in general.

The students will use American World War I propaganda posters to evaluate how individual citizens were encouraged to support the war effort. Students will work both individually and cooperatively during the course of this lesson.

This activity will involve analyzing various propaganda techniques in the address delivered by President Harry S. Truman at the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 30, 1948, during his reelection campaign.

This exercise will enable students to understand how each individual’ personal bias could be affected by evidence presented to them, in this case, posters of WWI.

Students will determine what facts, fictions, emotions, and/or events were involved between individuals and groups as they examine past prejudices in the cities of Pierce City, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Little Rock, Arkansas; Wichita, Kansas.

Students will understand how prejudice is learned and how members of a group internalize dominant group norms. Students will learn obstacles to normalization after genocide and propose possible solutions to neutralize those obstacles.

There will be cooperative learning as students will be working in groups of 4-5 and analyzing secondary sources concerning Cap Anson and primary sources from after Jackie Robinson's playing days.

Students will be using the Internet to identify regional trends in post reconstruction presidential elections through the election of Herbert Hoover in 1928. Keeping in mind these regional trends, students will then analyze responses to the DePriest tea incident.

In this lesson students will be introduced to important background information on the dropping of the atomic bombs.

In this lesson students will continue with their examination of the dropping of the atomic bombs, this time focusing on varying historical perspectives. In particular this will include the Japanese perspective.

This lesson prepares students to use primary sources for research purposes. It provides students the opportunity to work on their analysis and research skills.

Students will work in groups to analyze primary source documents to investigate the Marshall Plan was and its controversies.

Geography, the rise of the Middle East, and the recognition of Israel.

Role playing activity in which students will portray historical figures who were influential in the U.S. recognition of the State of Israel.

After viewing the PowerPoint titled Israel and the American Cyrus which deals with the influences on President Truman's decision to recognize Israel and the birth of Israel as a nation, students will write to prompts.

Students will analyze and discuss primary source documents pertaining to the Creation of the State of Israel.

Students will analyze primary documents concerning the recognition of Israel.

Student will investigate and compare the personal experiences included in Rod Hersey; book Hiroshima with the first-hand account of American Nikolay Palchikoff’ visit to Hiroshima three weeks after the bomb.

This project will examine the effect of Federal Programs of the 1930s on the rate of road paving in the various decades. We will also explore the impact of road building on various parts of the nature and growth of the county.

This assignment is a technology based cooperative assignment using primary and secondary source materials to determine the role of the First Lady in United States history.

Students role play British intelligence experts who must examine the decoded Zimmerman Telegram and determine the best way to handle this potentially explosive information and act accordingly.

Students will analyze the events that caused the Ruhr crisis, and explain the German response and how the actions of the German government affected its own economy.

The Presidential election gives a wonderful opportunity, every four years, to spark student interest in the election process and the candidates involved. The scrapbook project allows the students to work with primary sources and current materials and develop a working knowledge of the electoral process.

Instead of teaching the concepts of separation of powers and checks and balances, the students can see how the power of the President to use executive
orders have played out in three different moments in history.

This lesson is designed to give students a greater understanding of the Korean War through examining the experiences of a military chaplain, Capt. Emil J. Kapaun who was captured and later died from dysentery while being held as a POW.

Students will look at primary documents in a study of the six day war.

Evaluate the constitutionality and fairness of controversial Presidential elections.

Students will use the SWOT method (Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) to synthesize knowledge about the end of Reconstruction.

Students compare and contrast the lives of three of the most prominent artists in the Regionalism movement: Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry

Developing research skills in third graders using Truman's extensive travels as a jumping off point

Based on the group work, each student will write a 2-3 paragraphs (4-6 sentences) defending or disagreeing with the President's decision to send the 101st Airborne to Little Rock citing evidence from the readings.

Through this activity, students will learn to analyze primary source materials such as pictures, letters, and diaries, and synthesize that information with material presented in the classroom to produce an original story.

Students will close read Truman's statement on the dropping of the atomic bomb

Students in St. Louis are not often exposed to the Border War and thus have no real background knowledge of why there is a natural rivalry between Kansans and Missourians. A lesson exploring this topic directly relates to teaching students.

Students will research and analyze primary and secondary sources on the 1948 U.S. Presidential Campaign and produce a digital scrapbook.

The purpose of this lesson is to take a comparative examination of the Civil Rights Movement. The actions of three Presidents at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement will be examined to determine the effectiveness of each.

The students will have a lecture and view some political cartoons and maps during the time period of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The students will participate in the Notebook activity at the end of the lesson.

Students will write a 20-point persuasive essay explaining their decision on how to end WWII.

Through the use of primary sources, students will learn about the social integration of the White House in 1929 during what became known as the DePriest Tea Incident.

The students will analyze editorial cartoons created in the context of the Election of 1860. Students will use the primary sources to identify the major issues of this election and how those issues shaped the elections outcome.

The lesson will incorporate primary sources, specifically political cartoons, relating to government spying and our interpretations of it. It will use a Socratic Seminar to explore the different viewpoints and arguments of student regarding the issue and will culminate in a short student reaction essay.

Students explore and analyze artifacts in the Vietnam Traveling Trunk

Students will conduct research to gain an understanding for where women started in American society, and as a result a better understanding of how they got to the position they are in today.