Classroom Materials for Younger Students

Please note that this is not a complete list of our materials that can be used in elementary classrooms. We've heard from many elementary teachers who have successfully scaffolded other lessons and tasks to use with their students. Rather, this is a list of lessons and assessments designed specifically with elementary students in mind or that have been used successfully by elementary teachers with only minor adaptations.

Reading Like a Historian Lesson Plans

• Mansa Musa*
• Pocahontas*
• Portola Expedition
• Battle of Lexington*
• California Missions*
• The Gold Rush and San Francisco*
• Biddy Mason
• Child Labor*
• Historical Photographs of African Americans 

Historical Assessments of Thinking

• The First Thanksgiving*
• Signing of the Mayflower Compact*
• Washington Crosses the Delaware*
• Declaration of Independence*

*The student materials for these lessons are also available in Spanish.