We have organized our activities and lesson plans by topic and identified their corresponding programs. We noted if they work best as a pre-visit, post-visit activities, or stand-alone lesson plan.

In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American World War I heroes. They analyze period ...

YORK, Maine — If all goes as state and local educators hope, the coming school year will prove formative not only for Maine's current students but also for the lesson plans their teachers will use in ...

In this lesson, students learn how the life of an enslaved person changed from the Antebellum period through Emancipation. They analyze primary source documents in order to create a timeline of an ...

This lesson is devoted to a verbal review of the results of the library research. Systematically work through the questions of the assignment sheet for each group of refugees. As the lesson progresses ...

This lesson aims to consolidate understanding of the concept "refugee", through examination of historical examples of refugee groups. The students will have an opportunity to practise library research ...