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What's New: Featured Materials for Teachers
Listed below are resources the CHE has compiled for teachers from our own website and the Maryland State Archives to highlight certain topics/time periods in history. The topics have been grouped by grade level, but feel free to explore all of the resources below. They can be adapted to meet the needs of students at various levels. Be sure to check back periodically, the featured topics will change! To check out old topics, be sure to visit our archive.
Elementary Level
The CHE has published teacher lesson plans on the American Revolution and New Nation at www.umbc.edu/che/tahlessons.
Colonial Tea Parties
Author: Tamara Dingman, Richard Henry Lee Elementary School, Anne Arundel County Public Schools
Grade Level: Upper Elementary
Who Burned the Peggy Stewart?
Author: Kathleen Wilson, Germantown Elementary School, Anne Arundel County Public Schools
Grade Level: Upper Elementary
Was the Stamp Act Fair?
Author: Abbey Campbell, Logan Elementary & Shannon Halpin, Edmondson Heights Elementary, Baltimore County Public Schools
Grade Level: Elementary (3-4-5)
Democratic Ideas of the 1776 Maryland Constitution
Author: Kathleen Wilson, Germantown Elementary School, Anne Arundel County Public Schools
Grade Level: Upper elementary
Fighting for Whose Freedom? Black Soldiers in the American Revolution
Author: Tina Nelson, Baltimore County Public Schools
Grade Level: Upper Elementary
Numerous document packets on the American Revolution and New Nation can be found on the Maryland State Archives’ web site www.TeachingAmericanHistoryMD.net, including:
- Battle Of North Point, September 12, 1814
- Bringing Down the House: The Burning of the White House in the War of 1812
- Burning of the Peggy Stewart
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton: Maryland's First Citizen
- Colonial Currency: The Role of Tobacco in Proprietary Maryland
- Common Sense and the Revolution in Maryland
- Daniel Dulany: Indentured Servant to Statesman
- Francis Scott Key and the Star Spangled Banner
- Franklin Lightning Rod
- George Washington and the Paradox of Slavery
- Governor Robert Eden and the American Revolution
- Indian–Colonial Relations in Laws and Official Documents
- Liberty Tree and American Patriotism
- Mary Pickersgill: Maker of the Star-Spangled Banner
- Maryland Constitutions
- Maryland State House at Annapolis
- Roots for Kids
- Runaway Slave Advertisements During the Revolutionary War Era
- Runaway Slave Advertisements in the New Republic
- Runaway Slave Advertisements in Antebellum Maryland
- Settling Down in Baltimore
- 'Til Death Do Us Part: Maryland Marriage Laws, 1640-1900
- Ratification of the Treaty of Paris
- Washington Resigning His Commission
Middle/High School Level
The CHE has published teacher lesson plans on the Great Depression and WWII at www.umbc.edu/che/tahlessons.
The Federal Theatre Project: Analyzing Conflict Among Relief, Art, and Politics in 1930s America
Author: Matthew Power, Patapsco High School, Baltimore County Public Schools
Grade Level: Middle/High
African Americans and the Democratic Party
Author: Sue Pennington, Wilde Lake High School, Howard County Public Schools
Grade Level: Middle/High
Franklin Roosevelt's Proposal for Reforming the Supreme Court: 168 Days of National Debate
Author: Nancy Sinclair, Sparrows Point High School, Baltimore County Public Schools
Grade Level: High
Numerous document packets on the Great Depression and WWII can be found on the Maryland State Archives’ web site www.TeachingAmericanHistoryMD.net, including:
- Americans Listening: Huey Long and Father Coughlin
- Depicting the Enemy: Stereotype Imagery in World War II
- Dust Bowl
- Education in Maryland: Separate and Unequal
- Father Coughlin: Radio Priest, Depression Demagogue
- From Segregation to Integration: The Donald Murray Case, 1935-1937
- Henry Louis Mencken
- Jim Crow in Maryland
- Liberty Ships and Bethlehem Steel
- Maryland at War
- Maryland Farms During World War II
- Poster Girls
- U.S. Army Installations In Maryland During World War II
- United States in Depression and War
- To Market: Packing and Canning Industries in Maryland
- Victory Corps: World War II Homefront
New Online Resources from
Teaching American History in Maryland
Check out the many new online Lesson Plans and Resources for Teachers developed for the K-12 classroom by the Teaching American History in Maryland Program.
These user-friendly resources include classroom-ready Lesson Plans on a wide range of topics in the K-12 U.S. history curriculum. The lesson plans come complete with background information, activities, primary sources, worksheets, and links to the National History Standards. Resources for Teachers is an interactive timeline of lesson plans, primary sources, and other useful Web sites for the history classroom. Content will be added often, so check back frequently!
Keep checking "What's New" for future programs, announcements and events at the UMBC Center for History Education .
