Lesson Plans

The following lesson plans were created by project participants and were written for middle level students. Adapt as needed for your own use. They do not represent the work of ESSDACK consultants or the Library of Congress. 

(Links within lessons will lead to other websites, books, and resources and are included to assist in your own lesson design. These links do not an endorsement of the linked site or its contents.)

• Cultural Identity and The Bear That Wasn't

• The Rights of Others and Social Change

• Reconstruction: Were African Americans Free?

• I Have a Dream

• Out of the Dust

• Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

• The Civil War: Pink and Say

• Follow the Drinking Gourd

• Pocohantas and Different Historical Perspectives

• At the Same Moment Around the World

• The Dust Bowl Through Literature

• Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics

• Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, and Slave

• The Arrival and America in the Early 1900s

• Harriet Tubmand and Pre-Civil War America

• Geography and the Dust Bowl

• Which is Better: Barter or Money?

• How Do Stereotypes Impact Individuals?

• Nazi Propoganda, Anne Frank, and Indentity

• Equality and Ruby Bridges

• Early Trading Through Literature and Primary Sources

• How Did Explorers Justify Conquest?

• Life in a Refugee Camp. And What Comes After?

• Snow White, Cinderella, and Life in 1920s New York City

• We are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know