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Find videos, activities and lesson plans to nurture curiosity and spark the discovery of history! This content can be used in the classroom or at home to keep students engaged and active. You can conveniently browse them by topic and/or grade level.
Ohio Village Virtual Field Trip is an interactive online experience that explores life during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Through this virtual field trip students help different Ohio Village characters achieve their mission. Characters in the experience represent people of different backgrounds and lived experiences of the time.
How much do you know about Veterans’ organizations and their connections with WWI? You will learn a lot from these images and readings!
This lesson plan was written by Paul LaRue. A retired thirty-year high school social studies teacher, Paul has received numerous state and national teaching awards. He serves as a member of the Ohio World War I Centennial Committee.
Understand how individuals and communities experienced the events in history by recording oral histories! Learn how to conduct an interview and connect to the people around you.
These war posters and newspapers clippings will show you the importance of food conservation in war times.
This resource was created by staff of the Ohio History Connection for Little Stories of the Great War: Ohioans in World War I, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Resources are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.
Join our curator Becky to see how quilting has changed over time and what intricate designs were created. After viewing the video, check out the activity A Patchwork History to learn more about how historians use quilts to learn about the past, and get creative with quilt coloring and design!
Learn about geometrical symmetry and how quilters use it to create intricate and interesting designs! Put your skills to the test and design and color quilts using translational, reflective and rotational symmetry!
This activity, featured on our blog, guides students through interpreting and analyzing historical photographs to answer the question “What was school like in the early 1900s?”. Students will answer questions about the photographs, then view them on Ohio Memory to see if they were right! Students will put their new skills to the test by analyzing old photos that they can find at home in scrapbooks or yearbooks (or that shoebox that is somewhere up in the attic…).
Using diaries and scrapbooks to learn about historical events is interesting and fun. Learn how to analyze these primary sources composed by men and women abroad during World War I, all of which are freely available in their entirety in the World War I in Ohio Collection on Ohio Memory. A Soldier’s Experience activity connects students to the daily life of a soldier and two personal, first-hand accounts!
This resource was created by staff of the Ohio History Connection for Little Stories of the Great War: Ohioans in World War I, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Resources are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.
Using diaries and scrapbooks to learn about historical events is interesting and fun. Learn how to analyze these primary sources composed by men and women abroad during World War I, all of which are freely available in their entirety in the World War I in Ohio Collection on Ohio Memory. An American in Paris activity will allow you to investigate the biases of public media and the dissemination or wartime news!
This resource was created by staff of the Ohio History Connection for Little Stories of the Great War: Ohioans in World War I, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Resources are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.
Check out Chronicling America
and find out how to search this website to find evidence of the past, detect biases in newspaper articles and place current immigration issues in a historical context. In this activity you will access Polish-American newspapers and find out how they reacted to President William McKinley’s assassination!
This resource was created by the Ohio History Connection for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress. They are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.
Check out Chronicling America
and find out how to search this website to find evidence of the past, detect biases in newspaper articles and place current immigration issues in a historical context. In this activity you will access Polish-American newspapers to better understand the immigrant experience in the 19th-20th centuries!
This resource was created by the Ohio History Connection for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress. They are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.
New resources and ideas are added monthly
“Children should be seen but not heard,” goes the old adage. But what if we can help our students view their role in history differently? What if we taught students to view children not as mere background players in history, but as a key part of unlocking historical curiosity? Though children’s voices are often underrepresented […]
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This month’s blog post highlights a year-long project by an Ohio educator and their students, resulting in a published book of diverse student memoirs. Whether you’d like to replicate the project in detail or take inspiration from it, read on for a how-to guide on amplifying student voices. Special thanks to Sr. Pablo Chignolli, M.Ed. […]
Looking for ways to inspire your students to continue engaging with inclusive history this summer break? Encourage them to learn about Juneteenth! Challenge your students to learn a bit about the history of the holiday, attend Juneteenth celebrations and gain new insights through unique historical programs and activities, like those hosted by the Ohio History […]
Special thanks to our guest contributors at the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission (OHGMEC) for writing this month's blog on teaching Genocide Awareness Month. “We heard that we were liberators, but all I could think was, too late, too late, too late. We saw more dead than alive.” Robert Stubenrauch, Combat photographer at […]
Special thanks to our guest contributors at the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission (OHGMEC) for writing this month's blog on teaching Genocide Awareness Month. Genocide Awareness Month is observed annually in April to raise awareness about genocide, honor victims, and promote prevention efforts. Throughout this month, various organizations, educational institutions, and communities […]