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The Depressing Depression - Lesson 4: Using Primary Sources to Discover History
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In this lesson, students use online sites to find primary sources from the period. They will then work collaboratively to analyze the primary sources they find and present their analysis to the class.

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Social Studies
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Lesson Plan
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
06/27/2017
The Depressing Depression - Lesson 5: Solving a Great Problem
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In this lesson, students pinpoint and list specific problems of the Great Depression using what they have learned from analyzing a variety of primary sources. They will then form research groups to learn about President Frankling Roosevelt and New Deal Legislation using internet sources.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
06/27/2017
The Depressing Depression - Lesson 7: New Deal Programs
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In this lesson, students summarize major programs that were created by the New Deal by presenting the information they found in their research efforts through a variety of formats including but not limited to oral presentation, picture book, written report.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
06/27/2017
The Depressing Depression - Lesson 9: Presentation of Culminating Assessment
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In this lesson, students demonstrate their learning throughout the unit through a presentation. Students will analyze peers' work using a rubric.

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Social Studies
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Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
06/27/2017
Differences Among Colonial Regions
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Students will explore the differences among the three colonial regions of New England, Mid-Atlantic / Middle, and the Southern colonies. In small groups for each region, students will observe and note details of pictures, maps, and advertisements in order to describe each region.

Subject:
American History
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Author:
Hannah Robinson
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Electoral College Policy Brief to the Virginia Governor
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In this lesson, students will answer the question "should the United States keep the Electoral College?" Students will learn about the function and process of the Electoral College. By the end of this lesson, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the political process at the local, state, and national levels of government by describing the role fo the electoral college in the election of the President and Vice President. Students will defend a position and evaluate the arguments for the debate over the current utility of the Electoral College.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
05/02/2017
Enlightenment Ideals as Realized by Jefferson and Others
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In this lesson, students will use primary sources from late 18th century and early 19th century American history to judge how well Thomas Jefferson and others implemented the ideals of the Enlightenment into the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. They will finish with a discussion of whether Thomas Jefferson and others were justified with the limitations they placed on the Enlightenment ideals.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
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Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
05/11/2017
Examination of 19th Century Life in an American Textile Mill
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In this lesson, students will explore the social and economic conditions of Americans during the 19th Century Industrial Revolution by examining primary source documents and reflecting on them.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
05/10/2017
George Washington: General, President, Slave Owner
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Students will demonstrate understanding of contributions made by George Washington by analyzing symbols and symbolism in primary source documents.

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Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
01/09/2017
The Great Depression
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In this lesson, students will analyze and interpret primary sources and photographs regarding the impact of the Great Depression on the lives of Americans. By the end of this lesson, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the social, economic, and technological changes of early twentieth century by identifying the causes of the Great Depression, its impact on Americans, and the major features of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
05/02/2017
The Great War: Emancipation Proclamation and Conscription Act of 1863
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In this lesson, students will analyze the views surrounding the meaning/action of the Emancipation Proclamation as well as actions taken by Northerners to show their discontent with the conscription draft and the liberating of slaves. By the end of the case study, students will have analyzed and categorized primary sources revolving around the Emancipation Proclamation and the reaction to the conscription act by the people of the North and will construct an essay response to the case study question.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
05/11/2017
The Growth of Cities and Industries - Lesson 4: Railroads
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Students participate in a role play activity to better understand how railroads brought raw materials to factories and industries and then carried the finished goods to market creating national markets and a rapidly growing economy.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Author:
Lynn Dille
Date Added:
02/26/2019
The Growth of Cities and Industries - Lesson 7: Timelines
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Students practice skills necessary to understanding timelines and demonstrate mastery by making a timeline of their own showing inventions between 1850 and 1920.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Author:
Lynn Dille
Date Added:
02/26/2019
The Growth of Cities and Industry
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In this unit, students will learn about the inventions and technology that led to industrialization. Students will also study the immigrants who would supply the labor for industrialization. Finally, students will learn about some of the people who would create the “big business” financing and industrial infrastructure. Students will also be exposed to some of the problems that the rapid expansion of cities and industry created.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
06/27/2017
The Growth of Cities and Industry - Lesson 1: Changes in Cities from 1850 to 1909
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In this lesson, students gain an understanding of what is meant by industrialization and growth. Students will examine primary source documents to identify major changes in U.S. cities and develop questions as to how and why these changes took place.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
06/27/2017
The Growth of Cities and Industry - Lesson 5: Captains of Industry
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In this lesson, students will examine how national markets (created by the railroads discussed in the previous lesson) became controlled by a few very rich “Captains of Industry” using new methods of financing.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Date Added:
06/27/2017