The Museum offers several complementary primary source lesson plans by grade level.

Middle School

• Mini Lesson: Dr. Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
  
  
• Mini Lesson: Writing about National Narratives
  
  
• Debating the 1960 Election
  • 1960 Debate Guide
  • Political Debates Format and Evaluation Sheet
    
    
• Mourning a President: Comparing Poetry: Presidential Deaths of 1865 and 1964
  
  
• Eyewitness to History
  
  
• History Hashtag
  • History Hashtag Version 1 Question ppt
  • History Hashtag Version 2 Question ppt
    
    

High School

• Mini-Unit: The Poverty Issue
  • Then and Now: Cost and Conversion
  • Analyzing Poverty Data
  • The Plights of Poverty

• President Kennedy and the Bill of Rights Lesson Plan
  
  
• John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Inaugural Address
  
  
• Senator Robert F. Kennedy Speaks on Martin Luther King Jr: Analyzing Speeches Given on April 4-5, 1968
  
  
• State of Texas vs. Lee Harvey Oswald Mock Trial
  
  
• Debating the 1960 Election
  • 1960 Debate Guide
  • Political Debates Format and Evaluation Sheet
    
    
• Mourning a President: Comparing Poetry: Presidential Deaths of 1865 and 1964
  
  
• Power of the Press
  
  
• History Hashtag
  • History Hashtag Version 1 Question ppt
  • History Hashtag Version 2 Question ppt
    
    
• The Equal Pay Act of 1963
  
  
• Conservation
  

Other Resources

• Primary Source Analysis Handout