In this lesson, students will closely examine a copy of the Gettysburg Address written in Lincoln's hand and will be encouraged to think critically about the meanings and context of one of America's most famous speeches.

In this lesson plan, students will review an online exhibition, conduct historical research using artifacts and primary source documents, and develop group presentations that discuss ways that Abraham Lincoln's life was extraordinary.

This lesson gives learners the chance to delve deeply in to the lives of the Founding Fathers and Mothers to discover the personal characteristics that enabled them to become leaders and revolutionaries. This would be a good assignment for students who compact out of a portion of a unit on early American history. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson, students investigate and analyze the historical context of the Revolutionary War song, "Yankee Doodle." As a culminating activity, students will be asked to create their own additional verses about George Washington to the tune of the song.

This lesson deals with events that led to the creation of a new type of government in the United States changing from the Articles of Confederation to the designing, writing, and ratification of the United States Constitution. These events created a government that had never been tried before.

In this lesson, students learn about the political, economic, and geographic regional differences that led to conflict in the United States through map sketches, primary sources, problem-solving and points of view.

This lesson examines events, people, causes and effects relevant to the Civil Rights Movement through primary sources, graphic organizers, research and presentations.

In this online interactive, students learn about Abraham Lincoln's accomplishments prior to and during his presidency.

In this lesson, students discuss activism and the characteristics of leaders and participants in state and national movements. Students participate in national movement by organizing and writing a petition to support their views.

Students will be able to cite the origins and outcome of the War of 1812 and be able to place the creation of the Star-Spangled Banner in a chronological framework.

In this lesson, students will use a variety of mechanisms included in movable books and encourages them to build their own pop-up in support of a social studies lesson. Making pop-ups subtly reinforces students’ understanding of mechanical movement and helps budding architects, designers, and engineers begin to envision objects three-dimensionally.

Students will discuss, investigate, reflect, and make a photograph connected to the American flag. They will then write a detailed description that responds to one or more prompt questions and share both photographs and descriptions online.

In this lesson, students analyze census data and graphs that demonstrate how certain aspects of the lives of African-Americans have changed since civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. Students select a fact from these data, facts from other sources, and a historical photograph to include on a poster about King.

Students will try an immigration interview from the early 1900s and consider the meanings behind those questions.

Students can access an interactive resource around the United States Flag from Fort McHenry which the Star-Spangled Banner poem was written about.

This resource reviews the accomplishments of Jane Addams, a worldwide peacemaker. Addams was probably the most beloved woman in America. In a newspaper poll that asked, "Who among our contemporaries are of the most value to the community?" Jane Addams was second, after Thomas Edison. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

This resource provides information about John Brown and his heroic attempts to end slavery. John Brown's raid was perhaps the final spark that ignited the Civil War.

This resource reviews the accomplishments of one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. His literary works helped shape American literature and politics.

Students will read a biography about President Lincoln's life and write a summary based on the passage This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage and questions, and write to make claims. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.