Since we live in the United States we of course are going to spend a fair amount of time learning about the country we live in, and we also are spending a fair amount of time studying the different states.
{I am adding to this page as I sort through blog posts, so be patient if the topic you’re looking for isn’t here yet}
Colonial American History Lessons
I had so many ideas for Colonial America, I turned this into a landing page to keep this from being forever and a day long, so I give you Colonial America lessons, the best way to start off our American history lessons.
American Revolution History Lesson
Towards the end of the Colonial period of American history, they started getting a bit anxious and that’s how we got the American Revolution. Again, it’s a fun period to study, so we’ve got quite a few American Revolution history lessons.
Early Republic history (founding to 1812)
The Big Cheese, Jefferson’s presidency
War of 1812 History Lessons
Westward Expansion American History Lessons (1820s-1880s)
Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass and the Underground Railroad
Log Cabin Quilt, homesteading in Michigan
Underground Railroad simulation
Gun Fighters of the Old West (learn your local legends)
Cattle Drives and the Old West
Civil War History Lessons
Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers (election of 1860)
Showing Civil War battles visually
Comparing texts on the Civil War
Promise Quilt (how Civil War affected families)
Gilded Age early 1900s American History Lessons
10th Avenue Cowboy (early 1900s New York City)
World War 1 American History Lessons
World War 1, the war to end all wars, is a much-misunderstood war, primarily because no one is quite sure why everyone is fighting. It also set the stage for much of the last 100 years of history, so take some time in your World War 1 Unit.
1920s and Great Depression History Lessons
Aunt Minnie and the Twister (fiction picture book, art lesson)
Traveling by train in the 1920s and 30s
Movies to learn about the Great Depression
Depression Era: living as hobos
Depression simulation for kids
World War 2 American History Lessons
We all know about World War 2, Hitler, Nazis, The Bomb, Concentration Camps….. Turn this hard time into a collection of hands on lessons to drive home the tragedy with this World War 2 unit.
1950s-1970s American History Lessons
Korean War lesson plan, should we have gotten into the war?
America in the 1950s notebooking ideas
Presidential report: Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower
Last Mule of Gee Bend (Civil Rights)
Under New York (fiction book about New York subways)
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