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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)
Historical Maps with a Modern Use
Themes: Geography and Exploration
How can we use historical maps to strengthen our mental maps of the modern world?
SOL: 1.4, 1.5, 2.4, 2.5, 3.5, 3.6, K.4, USI.1, USI.2, VS.1, VUS.1, WG.1, WHI.1, WHII.1
Blank Space: Mapping the Unknown
Themes: Geography and Exploration
How did early maps show the mapmakers' perception of the known world?
SOL: 1.4, 1.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.2, 3.5, 3.6, K.4, K.5, USI.1, USI.2, USII.1, VS.1, VS.2, VUS.1, VUS.2, WG.1, WHI.1, WHII.1, WHII.4
Freedom is Worth Fighting For: Billy and James
Themes: African Americans, Military History
What choices did the Revolutionary War create for enslaved African Americans in Virginia?
SOL: VS.1, VS.5
Death or Liberty: Gabriels Rebellion
Themes: African Americans
What would you do to secure your freedom? Is there any price too steep?
SOL: CE.1, USI.8, VUS.1, VUS.6
Virginia Indians in the Twentieth Century
Themes: Virginia Indians
How does the annual payment of tribute to the governor by some of Virginia's Indians attest to their continuing presence?
SOL: USI.3, USI.4, VS.2, VUS.2
The Womens Land Army and World War II Posters
Themes: Military History, Technology and Science, Women
What are some ways that women contributed to the war effort during WWII?
SOL: CE.1, USII.1, USII.7, VUS.1, VUS.12
Arthur Ashe
Themes: African Americans, Civil Rights, Popular Culture
What are the characteristics of a person worthy of being a member of the Human Being Hall of Fame?
SOL: CE.1, USII.9, VS.1, VS.9
Virginia Ordinance of Secession
Themes: Military History, Politics
What did the Virginia Ordinance of Secession declare?
SOL: USI.1, USI.9, VS.1, VS.7, VUS.1, VUS.7
World War II Home Front: Can all you Can
Themes: Military History, Politics, Popular Culture, Technology and Science, Women
How did canning food at home aid the war effort during WWII?
SOL: CE.1, CE.3, USII.1, USII.8, VS.1, VUS.1, VUS.12
Thomas Meade Estate Inventory
Themes: Legal, Popular Culture
What can an estate inventory tell you about an individual?
SOL: USI.1, USI.5, VS.1, VS.4, VUS.1, VUS.3