ERA 1
Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)

Standard 1: Comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450

Standard 2: How early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples.

The First Thanksgiving - Kindergarten
Indians - 2nd Grade
The Story of Longitude
Native Americans - 4th Grade
Slave Trade - 4th Grade
American Revolution Women - 4th Grade
Revolutionary War - 4th Grade
Women in the American Revolution - 4th-8th Grade
Women's Suffrage- 5th Grade
Colonial America- 5th Grade

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The Land and it's Early People - 8th Grade
Early Georgia - 8th Grade

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Early Georgia - 11th Grade

 

ERA 2
Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)

Standard 1: Why the Americas attracted Europeans, why they brought enslaved Africans to their colonies, and how Europeans struggled for control of North America and the Caribbean

Standard 2: How political, religious, and social institutions emerged in the English colonies

Standard 3:How the values and institutions of European economic life took root in the colonies, and how slavery reshaped European and African life in the America

Lowell Factory System - Industrialism
The Story of Longitude
Native Americans - 4th Grade
Slave Trade - 4th Grade
American Revolution Women - 4th Grade
Revolutionary War - 4th Grade
Women in the American Revolution - 4th-8th Grade
Women's Suffrage- 5th Grade
Colonial America- 5th Grade

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The Land and it's Early People - 8th Grade
Early Georgia - 8th Grade

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Early Georgia - 11th Grade

 

ERA 3
Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820) 

Standard 1: The causes of the American Revolution, the ideas and interests involved in forging the revolutionary movement, and the reasons for the American victory

Standard 2: The impact of the American Revolution on politics, economy, and society

Standard 3: The institutions and practices of government created during the Revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create the foundation of the American political system based on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights

Judicial Review - Supreme Court - 11th-12th Grade
The Cherokee History Channel
The Cherokee Syllabary
Deer Hide Activity
Causes of the Civil War -5th Grade
The Story of Longitude
Native Americans - 4th Grade
Slave Trade - 4th Grade
American Revolution Women - 4th Grade
Revolutionary War - 4th Grade
Women in the American Revolution - 4th-8th Grade
Women's Suffrage- 5th Grade
Colonial America- 5th Grade

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Cherokee Removal - 8th Grade
Georgia Charter- 8th Grade
Women in Georgia History - 8th Grade
The Land and it's Early People - 8th Grade
Early Georgia - 8th Grade

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Early Georgia - 11th Grade

Marbury v Madison - 12th Grade

ERA 4
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) 

Standard 1: United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans

Standard 2: How the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions

Standard 3: The extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800

Standard 4: The sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period

Pony Express - 2nd Grade
Johnny Appleseed - Elementary
Oregon Trail - 4th Grade
Trail of Tears - 4th Grade
Trail of Tears - 5th Grade
Andrew Jackson LP 1 - 5th Grade
Andrew Jackson LP 2 - 5th Grade
Dred Scott Decision - 5th Grade
Lakota Souix - 5th Grade
Lewis and Clark - 5th Grade
Louisiana Purchase LP 1 - 5th - 8th Grade
Missouri Compromise - 5th Grade

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War of 1812 - 8th Grade
Louisiana Purchase LP 2 - 8th Grade
Industrial Revolution - 8th Grade
Andrew Jackson and the National Bank - 9th Grade

Barbary Coast Pirates - 8th Grade
Chinese Exclusion Act - 10th - 11th Grade
Civil War - Cultural Music
Civil War - Political - Special Education - 9th-12th Grade
Civil War - Social - 9th-10th Grade
Cultural Issues during the Civil War - 11th Grade
Emancipation Proclamation
From Open Range to Total Enclosure - 5th Grade
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad - ESS - 9th-12th Grade
Jim Bowie and his knife - 9th-12th Grade
Lewis and Clark - 9th-12th Grade
Lowell Factory System - Industrialism - 8th Grade
Making Judgements:  John D. Rockefeller - The Two
Party System - 11th Grade
Mexican War - 9th-10th Grade
Ohms Law and the Scientific Method - 9th-12th Grade
Sand Creek Massacre - 5th Grade
Texas Independence - Manifest Destiny - 10th-11th Grade
The Erie Canal - ESOL - 9th-12th Grade
The Jackson Era:  Two Party System - 11th Grade
The Panic of 1837 - 9th-12th  Grade
The Pony Express - ESY - 9th-12th Grade
The Transcontinental Railroad - ESS - 9th-12th Grade
Trail of Tears - 9th-12th Grade
Westward Expansion - 11th Grade
Zebulon Pike - 9th-12th Grade
Transcontinental Railroad - 11th Grade
Panic of 1837 - 12th Grade
Pony Express - 9th - 12th Grade
Women's Suffrage - 10th - 12th Grade Sp. Ed.

 

ERA 5
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) 

Standard 1: The causes of the Civil War

Standard 2: The course and character of the Civil War and its effects on the American people

Standard 3: How various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed

Harriett Tubman - 2nd Grade
Emancipation Proclamation
Harriet Tubman - Civil War - 5th Grade 
Mt. Rushmore/Leadership - 1st-2nd Grade
Geometry - 4th Grade
Ft. Frederica History's Mysteries Narrative - K-12
Ft. Frederica GPS Standards ELA and SS - K-12
Sojourner Truth - 4th Grade
Civil War Women - 5th Grade
Mathilda Beasley - 5th Grade
Battle of America - 5th Grade
Highlights of the CW - 5th Grade
Reconstruction - 5th Grade
Sherman's March to the Sea - 5th Grade
Eight Women Spies - 5th Grade
Battles of Civil War - 5th Grade
Civil War Regions and Resources - 5th Grade
Numbers in Civil War - 4th - 5th Grade
Underground Railroad - 5th Grade

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Women and Children in the Civil War - 6th Grade Women's Role in the Civil War - 6th-8th Grade
Women's Suffrage- 6th-8th Grade
Women in the Civil War - 8th Grade
Forces and Cannons - 8th Grade

Causes of the Civil War - 8th Grade
Slavery and Slave Narratives - 8th Grade

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Agriculture vs. Industrialization - 11th Grade
Battle of Gettysburg - 7th-12th Grade
Brother Against Brother - 10th-11th Grade
Civil War - Political - Special Education - 9th-12th Grade
Civil War - Cultural Music - ESS - 9th-12th Grade
Civil War Economics - ESS - 9th-12th Grade
Factory vs. Plantation- 11th Grade
Gettysburg Address - 7th-12th Grade
KKK - Ku Klux Klan - 11th Grade
Politics and Leadership in the Civil War - 9th Grade
The Jungle - 8th-12th Grade
The World's Fair - 9th Grade
Sitting Bull - 9th-12th Grade
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce - 10th-11th Grade
Imperialism - 11th Grade
Rise of Monopolies - 11th Grade
Ft. Frederica Presentation
Ft. Frederica
Exploring Ft. Frederica through Coordinate
The Freedom Amendments
Reconstruction - Economics - 12th Grade
Reconstruction - Political Change - 11th Grade
Reconstruction - Political Changes - 9th - 12th Grade Sp. Ed.

 

 

 

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History Lesson Plans

EDSITEment - History Lesson Plans

Smithsonian Education - History Lesson Plans

Constitution Day Lessons

Center for Civic Education - Constitution Lessons

National Archives and Records Administration - Constitution Lessons

 

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Templates

Lesson Plan
Unit Concept Map
Exploded Unit Concept Map - for gallery walk
KWL Chart
Story Pyramid
Story Worm

 

ERA 6

The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900) 

Standard 1: How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people

Standard 2: Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity

Standard 3: The rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and economic changes

Standard 4: Federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War

When the Circus Came to Town - Kindergarten
Ludlow Massacre - 5th Grade
Building Background Knowledge-Populism and the election of 1896
Mt. Rushmore/Leadership - 1st-2nd Grade
Graham Bell - 5th Grade
John D Rockefeller - 5th Grade

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Child Labor Laws - 6th-8th Grade
Cotton Pickin' - 6th Grade
Cotton Pickin PPT - 6th Grade
Hull House - 7th-12th Grade
Immigration - 6th-8th Grade
The 1894 Pullman Strike - 8th Grade
The Jungle -  Reform in the Progressive Era - 8th-12th Grade
Women's Suffrage - 6th-8th Grade

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The World's Fair - 9th Grade
Sitting Bull - 9th-12th Grade
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce - 10th-11th Grade
Imperialism - 11th Grade
Rise of Monopolies - 11th Grade
A Journey through Ellis Island - 9th-12th Grade
Child Labor - 9th-10th Grade
Homestead Act - Westward Movement - 11th Grade
Robber Barons - Steel Industry - 10th -11th Grade
Statue of Liberty - 11th Grade
Becky Whittemore - 11th Grade
Carlisle Indian School - 11th Grade
Tammany Hall - 11th Grade

 

ERA 7
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930) 

Standard 1: How Progressives and others addressed problems of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption

Standard 2: The changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War I

Standard 3: How the United States changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression

Pear Harbor
Building Background Knowledge-Populism and the election of 1896
Suffragettes - 4th Grade
George Washington Carver - 5th Grade
Women in WWII - 5th Grade
WWI - Impact at Home - 5th Grade
Holocaust Plans - 5th Grade
Letters to 1st Lady - 5th Grade
Mt. Rushmore/Leadership - 1st-2nd Grade

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A Local Look at Lynching - 8th Grade
The Jungle - 8th-12th Grade

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Impact of Legislation - 10th Grade
Women's Suffrage - 11th Grade
Jim Crow - 11th Grade
Roaring 20s - 11th Grade
WWI - 10th Grade
Imperialism - American Expansion - 11th Grade
Muckrakers - Progressive Reforms - 11th Grade
The World's Fair - 9th Grade
Sitting Bull - 9th-12th Grade
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce - 10th-11th Grade
Imperialism - 11th Grade
Rise of Monopolies - 11th Grade
Monopolies - 12th Grade
Francis Perkins - 11th Grade

 

ERA 8
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945) 

 Standard 1: The causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society

Standard 2: How the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state

Standard 3: The causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the U.S. role in world affairs

Pear Harbor
Suffragettes - 4th Grade
George Washington Carver - 5th Grade
Women in WWII - 5th Grade
WWI - Impact at Home - 5th Grade
Holocaust Plans - 5th Grade
Letters to 1st Lady - 5th Grade

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A Local Look at Lynching - 8th Grade

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Impact of Legislation - 10th Grade
Women's Suffrage - 11th Grade
Jim Crow - 11th Grade
Roaring 20s - 11th Grade
WWI - 11th Grade

 

ERA 9
Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970) 

Standard 1: The economic boom and social transformation of postwar United States

Standard 2: How the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics

Standard 3: Domestic policies after World War II

Standard 4: The struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties

Time in Parallel (50s, 60s, 70s)
Time Capsule Activity
Civil Rights Video Questions
The 1960s - 5th Grade
Rosa Parks - 4th Grade

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Gandhi & MLK - 7th Grade Gifted
Vietnam War - 7th Grade
Events & People of Civil Rights - 8th Grade
Peaceful Protests vs. Violent Struggle - 8th Grade
Women's History - 8th Grade
School Integration - 8th Grade
Georgia in Civil Rights Movement - 8th Grade

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Civil Rights Struggle - 9th Grade
Women's Rights - 9th Grade
Vietnam vs. Iraqi Freedom - 9th - 12th Grade
Civil Rights Movement - 10th Grade
Cold War - 10th Grade
Vietnam War Years - 11th Grade
Women's Equality - 11th Grade
Civil Rights History- 11th Grade
Power of Race - 11th Grade
Emmett Till - 11th Grade

 

ERA 10
Contemporary United States (1968 to the present) 

Standard 1: Recent developments in foreign and domestic politics

Standard 2: Economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary United States

Failed Policies-A Modern History of US-Cuban Relations
Cotton Pickin' Time- 4th Grade
Government - 5th Grade
Time in Parallel (50s, 60s, 70s)
Time Capsule Activity
Civil Rights Video Questions
The 1960s - 5th Grade

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Gandhi & MLK - 7th Grade Gifted
Vietnam War - 7th Grade
Events & People of Civil Rights - 8th Grade
Peaceful Protests vs. Violent Struggle - 8th Grade
Women's History - 8th Grade
School Integration - 8th Grade
Georgia in Civil Rights Movement - 8th Grade

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Civil Rights Struggle - 9th Grade
Women's Rights - 9th Grade
Vietnam vs. Iraqi Freedom - 9th - 12th Grade
Civil Rights Movement - 10th Grade
Cold War - 10th Grade
Vietnam War Years - 11th Grade
Women's Equality - 11th Grade
Civil Rights History- 11th Grade
Power of Race - 11th Grade
Guns & Butter - 11th Grade
Georgia Project - 11th Grade

Geography

Geography Landforms - 6th Grade
Cultural Food for Thought - 6th Grade

 

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History Content Standards - Grades K-4

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