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EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web

What are the ways to find a lesson.

If there are several lesson plans on same topic, you first look at a curriculum unit.

Let's take "Birth of an American Empire." The Birth of an American Empire | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/birth-american-empire

Notice the three major sections:


 * THE UNIT
 * THE LESSON
 * THE BASICS

I go right to THE LESSON tab.

THE LESSON

This section lays out each of the four individual lessons in the overall unit.

Let's look at how one individual lesson is laid out.

There are three categories for each lesson:

1. The Lesson (this section has the real meat of the lesson) 2. The Basics (I tend to skip this section) 3. Resources (I tend to skip this section)

Now let's work through The Lesson.

On the left sidebar are some of the same categories we have seen already:

a. Introduction b. Guiding Questions c. Learning Objectives d. Background e. Preparation Instructions

Then several new categories:

Lesson Activities: Here is the heart of the lesson

Assessment (I skip this)

Extending the Lesson (I have used this section to expand my bookmarks of terrific scholarly websites)

Specific lessons from EDSITEment that I try to use in my own classes:

William Penn's Peaceable Kingdom | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/william-penns-peaceable-kingdom

Colonizing the Bay | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/colonizing-bay

The American War for Independence | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/american-war-independence

EDSITEment - Lesson Plan American Revolution http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=682

EDSITEMENT Interactive Map American Revolution http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/neh/interactives/americanrevolution/

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/constitutional-convention-1787

EDSITEment - Lesson Plan Religion in 18th Century America http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=696

The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/monroe-doctrine-origin-and-early-american-foreign-policy

The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America: A House Dividing | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/growing-crisis-sectionalism-antebellum-america-house-dividing

Civil War: A "Terrible Swift Sword" | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/american-civil-war-terrible-swift-sword

The Birth of an American Empire | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/birth-american-empire

EDSITEment lesson plan entitled "The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles." http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/great-war-evaluating-treaty-versailles

The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/debate-united-states-over-league-nations

United States Entry into World War I: A Documentary Chronology | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/united-states-entry-world-war-i-documentary-chronology

Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/woodrow-wilson-and-foreign-policy

FDR: Fireside Chats, the New Deal, and Eleanor | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/fdr-fireside-chats-new-deal-and-eleanor

The Road to Pearl Harbor: The United States and East Asia, 1915-1941 | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/road-pearl-harbor-united-states-and-east-asia-1915-1941

From Neutrality to War: The United States and Europe, 1921-1941 | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/neutrality-war-united-states-and-europe-1921-1941

American Diplomacy in World War II | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/american-diplomacy-world-war-ii

The United States in World War II: "The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force" | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/united-states-world-war-ii-proper-application-overwhelming-force

The Korean War: "Police Action," 1950-1953 | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/korean-war-police-action-1950-1953

The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949 | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/origins-cold-war-1945-1949

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: "The Missiles of October" | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/missiles-october-cuban-missile-crisis-1962

Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954: Witch Hunt or Red Menace?| EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/anticommunism-postwar-america-1945-1954-witch-hunt-or-red-menace

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and Escalation of the Vietnam War | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/gulf-tonkin-resolution-and-escalation-vietnam-war