• Read and discuss:

  • • Encounter by Jane Yolen

    • Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki

    • Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff

    • Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

    • A Boy No More by Harry Marzar

    • The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

    • Morning Girl by Michael Dorris

    • Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne

• BrainPOP

• DOGO News (https://www.dogonews.com/)

• NewsEla

• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (https://americanindian.si.edu/)

• Visit government offices

• Interview elected officials

• We the People congressional hearings simulation (https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/8814)

• Kids Voting (https://www.k12northstar.org/Page/8808)

• Constitution Day (September 17) activities

• Discuss the First Amendment and visit news media to discuss free press

• National Congress of American Indians (http://www.ncai.org/about-tribes)

• iCivics (https://www.icivics.org/)

• Timeline of major events in U.S. history.

• Re-enact immigrant entry into Ellis Island and the port of San Francisco

• Dramatize significant events of the American Revolution

• Teaching Tolerance (https://www.tolerance.org/)

• Village Journey by Justice Thomas Berger

• Article on Iroquois confederacy (https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy/)

• News magazines (e.g., Scholastic News, Newsela, Weekly Reader)

• Hold quarterly classroom elections with debates and moderators

• Establish a mock government

• Learn about circular economics (https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy/concept)

• Basic supply and demand lesson

• Participate in a Constitution Hall Pass event: (http://constitutioncenter.org/learn/hall-pass/) or utilize other resources from the National Constitution Center: (http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution-day/constitution-day-resources).

• Participate in Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips. (http://www.history.org/history/teaching/eft/index.cfm)

• Explore how bills become laws on the Kids in the House website. (http://kids.clerk.house.gov/lesson-plans//lesson-legis-gradeschool.pdf).

• Thanksgiving Interactive You are the Historian on the Plimoth Plantation website. (http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/interact/thanksgiving-interactive-you-are-historian)

• Use the Mission US interactive adventure game to get students thinking about concepts in early U.S. history. (http://www.mission-us.org/pages/mission-us-in-the-classroom)

• Modify a Teaching with Historic Places lesson plan from the National Park Service website. (http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/descrip.htm)

• Visit historic places in the World Wonders Project, like

  • • Independence Hall: (http://www.google.com/intl/en/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/independence-hall/);

    • Lancaster County: (http://www.google.com/intl/en/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/lancaster/);

    • and Fort Apache: (http://www.google.com/intl/en/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/fort-apache/).

• Use this New York Times map to discuss immigration to the U.S. (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html).

• Use primary source lesson plans from the National Archives: (http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/) and the Missouri Historical Society: (http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/4_0_0/index.html).

• Use citizenship lessons from the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago website. (http://www.crfc.org/teaching-materials)

• Recognizing Ethnic and Cultural Heritage (REACH) lessons

• Discuss the First Amendment and visit news media to discuss free press

• News magazines (e.g., Scholastic News, Weekly Reader)

• Mini society

• Basic supply and demand lesson

• Invite local Civil War/Revolutionary War groups to do re-enactments

• Have a panel of community members discuss discrimination

• Dramatize significant events of the American Revolution

• Use Thinking Maps® to show the impact of the Westward Expansion

• Use various Foldables®

• Visit government offices

• Interview elected officials

• Participate in the Geography Bee

• National Museum of the American Indian (https://americanindian.si.edu/)

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

by Jean Fritz

Puffin, 1996 (978-0-698-11351-0)

The Boston Tea Party by Steven Kroll

Holiday House, 2000 (978-0-823-41557-1)

Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz

Puffin, 1996 (978-0-698-11402-9)

Charlotte by Janet Lunn

Tundra Books, 1998 (978-0-887-76383-0)

Crossing the Delaware: A History in Many Voices by Louise Peacock

Aladdin Books, 2007 (978-1-416-95890-1)

Dear Benjamin Banneker

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Sandpiper, 1998 (978-0-152-01892-4)

Emma’s Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl by Marissa Moss

Sandpiper, 2001 (978-0-152-16325-9)

Katie’s Trunk by Ann Turner

Aladdin Books, 1997 (978-0-68981054-1)

Redcoats and Petticoats

by Katherine Kirkpatrick

Scholastic, 2000 (978-0-439-16510-5)

Shh, We’re Writing the Constitution

by Jean Fritz

Perfection Learning, 2001 (978-0-673-81771-6)

Sleds on Boston Common: A Story from the American Revolution by Louise Borden

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2000

(978-0-689-82812-6)

Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?

By Jean Fritz

Puffin, 1997 (978-0-698-11440-1)