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Middle School United States History Teachers Resources

745 minutes

21 Items

American Heroes, Past and Present

Lesson

3 Activities

George Washington and Self-Governance

Lesson

8 Activities

100 Min

Tiananmen Square and Courage

Lesson

2 Activities

90 Min

Dwight Eisenhower and Responsibility

Lesson

3 Activities

90 Min

Elizabeth Eckford and Courage

Lesson

4 Activities

90 Min

The Founding Documents: A Three-Act Drama

Curriculum

Question Formulation Technique (QFT): Map of 1491 vs. 1754

Lesson

55 Min

Maps Showing the Evolution of Settlement, 1624–1755

Activity

40 Min

Art Analysis: Washington Crossing the Delaware

Activity

40 Min

Cartoon Analysis: The “Rail Splitter” at Work Repairing the Union, 1865

Activity

40 Min

Cartoon Analysis: Thomas Nast Takes on “Boss” Tweed, 1871

Activity

40 Min

Art Analysis: American Progress by John Gast, 1872

Activity

40 Min

Images from the Carlisle Indian School, 1880s

Activity

40 Min

Photographs: The Dust Bowl and Rural Poverty, 1936–1937

Activity

40 Min

World War II Propaganda Posters, 1941–1945

Activity

40 Min

Correspondence between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, 1791

Activity

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845

Activity

Images of the Silent Parade, July 28, 1917

Activity

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”, James Weldon Johnson, 1900

Activity

Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”, 1936

Activity

We Shall Overcome

Activity