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LESSON PLANS
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Engage your students with history! Develop their powers of analysis and inquiry by guiding them to examine and study a historical source. Use these analysis sheets with any historical source to guide their exploration.
ATTACK the Source (Elementary)
You are CLEVER enough to examine a historical source (Middle)
Historical Source Analysis Sheet (Middle)
Historical Source Analysis Sheet (High)
Constitution Day Activities: Middle and High
Themes: Legal
How was the Constitution created? What did the delegates contribute in creating the Constitution?
SOL: CE.2, CE.3, USI.7, VS.5
Constitution Day Activities: Middle and High 2
Themes: Civil Rights, Legal
What would life be like without the freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly, and the right to petition?
SOL: GOVT.1, GOVT.11, GOVT.3, VUS.1, VUS.5
Constitution Day Activities: Elementary
Themes: Firsts, Legal
Who were Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry, and George Mason?
SOL: 1.10, 1.2, 1.3, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, K.1, K.8, K.9, VS.5, VS.6
Virginians Respond
Themes: African Americans, Civil Rights, Education
How did Virginians react to the Brown v. Board of Education court decision and Virginia's policy of massive resistance?
SOL: GOVT.1, VUS.1, VUS.14
Edith Turner: Nottoway Cheroenhaka chief
Themes: Virginia Indians, Women
How did Edith Turner, chief of the Nottoway navigate nineteenth-century Nottoway and Anglo-American societies while keeping the tribe's children on the reservation?
SOL: USI.1, USI.3, VS.1, VS.2, VUS.6
The Battle of Yorktown Sort it Sets
Themes: Military History
Why was the Battle of Yorktown a turning point in the Revolutionary War?
SOL: USI.6, VS.5
Virginias Trifecta in the Revolutionary War: Identifying Three Major Turning Points in Virginia
Themes: Geography and Exploration, Military History
How did the Battle of Great Bridge, Jack Jouett's ride, and the Battle of Yorktown aid in turning the tables on the British during the War for Independence?
SOL: 1.4, 2.6, 3.6, K.4, USI.1, USII.1, VS.1, VS.5, VUS.1, VUS.4, WG.1, WHI.1, WHII.1
My County Tis of Thee: Counties of Virginia
Themes: Geography and Exploration
How can we use historical maps to identify Virginia's counties and learn the political geography of Virginia?
SOL: 1.4, 1.5, 2.5, 3.6, K.5, USI.1, USI.2, VS.1, VUS.1, WG.1, WHI.1, WHII.1
The African Kingdom of Mali: Introducing Mali from Mercators Maps
Themes: Geography and Exploration
How do Gerhard Mercator's early maps show the historical perception of West Africa?
SOL: 1.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.2, 3.5, 3.7, USI.1, USI.2, USII.1, WG.4, WHI.1, WHI.1, WHI.10
John Smiths Masterpiece and Copyright Nightmare
Themes: Geography and Exploration
Why was Captain John Smith's map of Virginia so important and, therefore, copied so many times?
SOL: 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 3.5, 3.6, K.1, K.2, K.3, USI.1, USI.3, VS.1, VS.2, VUS.1, VUS.2, WG.1, WHI.1, WHII.1