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Level 1

Middle/Junior High School 6-8

• Abraham LIncoln's Views of Slavery and Slaves': Study of Lyrics and Papers

• Across Five Aprils-Primary Source Map

• An Adventure into the Native American World

• Americana Appreciation

• American Stew

• Bloomington Growth

• Bridging Across the Curriculum

• Can You Hear Me Now?

• Casimir Pulaski: A Revolutionary War Hero

• Check It Out! The History of Libraries

• The Civil War and Children

• The Civil War Experience-A Child's Diary

• The Courageous Corp of Discovery Web Quest

• Cultural Diversity Pioneers

• A Day in the Life...

• Deportation Bag.

• Dragonswings: A Journey to 1900 Chinatown in the Land of the Golden Mountain

• Dust Bowl and Route 66

• European Expansion in the Americas, The Discovery of a New World

• Exploring the Significance of the "Tyler Precedence" in the Past and Future

• Eye on America: Dorothea Lange

• Finding Patriotism

• Food Prep Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

• Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling water Observation

• A House Divided: American Civil War Battlefields

• Historical Haiku's: Poetic Responses to Japanese-American Internment

• I Hear America Singing

• Illinois from Prairie to State

• Introduction to the U.S. Constitution

• Jackie's Civil Duty

• Learning about the United States Constitution using Primary Sources

• Let’s Hear it for the Troops!

• Lickety-Split! The Exciting Story of the Pony Express

• The Life of a Civil War Soldier

• Living the History of World War II

• A Long Way to Chicago

• Making Connections

• Making Connections Web Quest

• Mapping Cotton Plantations

• Meet Mr. Lincoln

• Meeting Challenges and Blazing New Trails

• Natural Disasters Around the World

• Necessity is the Mother of Invention

• People to Know: Illinois Inventors

• Persuasive Pictures and Words: WPA War Time Posters

• Pocahontas-Fact or Fiction?

• Poetry Appreciation and Creation Unit

• Portraying the Earth Web Quest

• Presenting the Presidents!

• Propaganda and Advertising

• Propaganda Techniques

• Quilts and Quilt Making in America

• Reflections of the Dust Bowl

• River of Words

• Rush to the Klondike

• Scientific Method: Who Would Use That?

• Should we have school on Veteran's Day?

• Slavery-A Pre-Reading Experience

• Sousa-American Composer, Conductor

• Sun Safe Skin

• The Series of Unfortunate Americans: or Where Would Americans be without the Bill of Rights

• They Were Fit: Are You?

• Thomas Edison

• Using Geometric Shapes in History

• Using Primary Sources to Illustrate Events in a Historical Novel

• Virtual Poetry

• Well Done, Sister Suffragettes!

• We've Come a Long Way Baby- The Beginning of Women's Rights

• What Lead Up to the,"Shot Heard Around the World"?

• What Would You Choose for Your Career? Then and Now

• Where in the World is Spanish Spoken

• Who is Jackie Robinson

• Why Did They Invent That?

• The Windy White City

• Wild Wild West

• Writing and Revising with Primary Documents: Langston Hughes