Lesson Plans
Thematic lessons with one or more activities and primary sources with connections to the national standards.
Antislavery
Grade Level: Middle, High School
Anti-Slavery & Women’s Rights
Grade Level: High School
Becoming a Member of an 1830s Family
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Childhood in Early 19th-Century America
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Crafting and Existence
Grade Level: Primary School
Concluding the Unit
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Courtship and Marriage
Grade Level: Middle, High School
Death and Aging
Grade Level: Middle, High School
Defining Culture
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle
Family and Household Structure
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Family Life in the 1830s
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Family Roles and Functions in the Early 1800s
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Family Values, Beliefs, Stories, and Traditions
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Farm Family
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Farm Life
Grade Level: Middle, High School
From Fact to Story
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Growing Up in Early 19th-Century New England
Grade Level: Middle, High School
History in Pictures
Grade Level: Primary School
Introduction to Primary Sources
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Jacksonian America and the Indian Removal Act of 1830
Grade Level: Middle, High School
Leisure
Grade Level: Primary, Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Making Cloth: The Impact of Technology
Grade Level: Middle, High School
Old Sturbridge Village Field Study
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Poverty
Grade Level: Middle, High School
Reading Primary Source Documents: Comparing Sources
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Reading Primary Source Documents: Historical Content
Grade Level: Primary, Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Reading Primary Source Documents: Points of View
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Schooling
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Simple and Compound Machines
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle
Simple Machines Field Study at OSV
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle
A Second Visit to Old Sturbridge Village – The Story Tour
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle School
Temperance
Town Meeting
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
Traveling
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
What it Means to be an American Indian
Grade Level: Middle, High School
William Apess and the Mashpee “Revolt” of 1833
Grade Level: Middle, High School
Unit Plans
Complete curriculum with a unit overview, lesson plans, and assessments with connections to the National Standards.
American Indians in Jacksonian America: A Look at the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Mashpee Revolt of 1833
Grade Level: Middle, High School
Exploring Family Past and Present: Reading and Writing about History
Grade Level: Upper Elementary, Middle
Using Primary Sources
Grade Level: Primary, Upper Elementary, Middle, High School
