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Second grade students will learn about the many important roles that animals played during wartime.

This lesson provides information to students about the White House, and the residents of the White House. Second grade students can identify with animals and pets and it makes the topic of learning about the White House a more personal connection.

Primary source discovery and analysis

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

Reflection and analysis of symbols and their use in political cartoons

Vacation planning as a fourth-grade introduction to a host of ideas including, map reading, state history, recreation in Missouri, scarcity, and opportunity cost

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

Students analyze a biographical comic book summarizing President Harry S. Truman's life prepared by the Democratic Party.