Sample Lesson Plans
Use these samples and examples as inspiration for your own lesson plans.
- Teaching With Documents: Lesson Plans: Lesson Plans from NARA
- Digital History: Classroom-tested Handouts and Fact Sheets: Lesson plans, activities, and handouts based on primary sources
- Teacher Created Lesson Plans: Lessons from the Library of Congress
- Raw History Lesson Plan: Using Primary Sources: Middle school lesson plan on slavery integrating multiple primary sources
- Twain’s Hannibal: High school interdisciplinary lesson plan using primary sources to examine how the environment in Hannibal, MO affected Mark Twain’s writing
- Teaching with Primary Sources at Eastern Illinois University: Resources for educators on teaching with primary sources, including a free monthly newsletter with ideas and online resources
- Cyberbee: Lesson plans and curriculum resources for using online resources, some of which are primary sources.