Classroom Materials for Younger Students
Please note that this is not a complete list of our materials that can be used in elementary classrooms. We've heard from many elementary teachers who have successfully scaffolded other lessons and tasks to use with their students. Rather, this is a list of lessons and assessments designed specifically with elementary students in mind or that have been used successfully by elementary teachers with only minor adaptations.
Reading Like a Historian Lesson Plans
- Evaluating Photographs
- Intro to the Work of Historians
- Mansa Musa*
- Pocahontas*
- Portola Expedition
- Battle of Lexington*
- Burr-Hamilton Duel
- California Missions*
- Chumash Revolt
- The Gold Rush and San Francisco*
- Fugitive Slave Act
- Biddy Mason
- Overland Trails
- Chinese Railroad Workers (coming soon!)
- Child Labor*
- Angel Island (coming soon!)
- First Wave of Mexican Migration
- Historical Photographs of African Americans
- Desegregation of City Pools
- Farmworker Movement (coming soon!)
- Chicano Walkouts (coming soon!)
Historical Assessments of Thinking
- The First Thanksgiving*
- Signing of the Mayflower Compact*
- Washington Crosses the Delaware*
- Declaration of Independence*
*The student materials for these lessons are also available in Spanish.