Teaching with Primary Sources Mississippi Cognitive Tasks
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Elementary School
- Statue of Liberty – Symbol of the U. S.
- The Wright Brothers – First Flight
- Mapping Mississippi
- Voting History
- Ruby Bridges
- Filling in the Map: Exploration and the Growth of Knowledge
- Mayflower Compact
- Oman, Andrew Jackson, and trade: Early United States diplomatic efforts to establish international trade and commerce worldwide.
Gifted
- Gifted: Reshaped Countries Post-World War II
- Gifted: Battle of the Bulge
- Gifted: World War II Propaganda
- Gifted: Debating the Decision of the Atomic Bomb
Middle School
World History
- King Tut: Putting the Reality into the Virtual
- Who owns history? Investigating the Parthenon and the Debate of the Elgin Marbles (ELA focus)
- Henry VIII – Defender of the Faith
- Gladiators in Ancient Rome
- The Middle Ages (Multi Day Lesson)
- Rome’s Social Class: Plebeians and Patricians (Multi day Lesson; ELA focus)
- Gutenberg: The History and Impact of the Printing Press
U.S. History
- Spanish American War- Yellow Journalism “Remember the Maine”
- The Cold War: Culture of the 1950’s
- Creating Historical Narratives: Investigating the Death of Lincoln (Multi Day Lesson)
- Child Labor-More resources!
English Language Arts
High School
- Voting Rights: A Brief History
- Dust Bowl: An Environmental Disaster and its Impact
- Life in a Suitcase: A History of Ellis Island
- The Emancipation Proclamation: Lesson on Genre, Rhetoric, and Diction
- The Economics of Rationing during World War II
- Using Primary Sources to Teach Narrative Writing
- The Lynching of Emmett Till: The Response
- Learning about the Gilded Age
- Separate but Equal?
- Women During World War II and the Scarcity of Labor
| Undergraduate Pre-Service Teacher Lesson Plans | Grade Level |
| Researching-the-history-of-Thanksgiving | 3 |
| Bus Segregation | 4 |
| Jim Crow in America | 8, 6 |
| Westward Expansion | 8 |
| Who’s to Blame for the Boston Massacre | 8 |
| Civil War – Battle of Shiloh | 8 |
| Gilded Age and American Imperialism/ Spanish – American War | 8 |