Teacher Resources
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Library Resources
Library Primary Source Websites
High-resolution primary source materials from The Huntington's collections, with didactics for using the materials in flexible and dynamic ways across multiple grade levels.
The Rule of Law
The Reformation
Decoding the Civil War
Visual Voyages
Explorations in American History
Exploring the California Missions
Land of Golden Dreams
Library Lesson Plans/Vocabulary
Use vocabulary lists to support your school program visit, teacher-led visit, or in class.
- Treasures of the Library*
The following material supports the school program, "Remarkable Works, Remarkable Times" and may also be used independently.
- Vocabulary
- Using Primary Sources in the Classroom and Document Analysis Worksheet (grades 4-12)
- The Widening World of Books and Readers [World History and Geography: Medieval and Early Modern Times] (grade 7)
- The Literature of Upheaval [United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict] (grade 8)
- A Nation Conceived in Liberty [Advanced Placement United States History] (grade 11)
- A Literature of Democracy [American Literature] (grade 11)
- Shakespeare's Universalism [British Literature] (grades 11-12)
- Papers, Pens, and Prose*
The following material supports the school program, "Papers, Pens, and Prose" and may also be used independently.
- Vocabulary
- The Development of Writing & Books, Part I [History and Geography] (grades 4-8)
- The Development of Writing & Books, Part II [History and Geography] (grades 4-8)
- Coming to California: Juan Bautista de Anza Establishes a Land Route [California History] (grade 4)
- Washington's Rise Begins: A Journal of a Noteworthy Journey [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- The Latin Legacy: Language as a Cultural Marker [World History and Geography] (grade 6)
- A Changing Society: Chaucer and the Medieval World [World History and Geography] (grade 7)
- Teaching American History
The following material supports the school program, "Explorations in American History" and may also be used independently.
- American Biography: Six Important People from our Nation’s History [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Cooperation and Conflict: American Indians and English Settlers in Colonial America [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Early English Exploration and Settlement of the Colony of Virginia [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- The Corps of Discovery: The Lewis and Clark Expedition [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Pennsylvania Colony: The Holy Experiment [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Settlement of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies of New England [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Religious Dissent (A Supplement to Settlement of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies of New England) [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Slavery: A Crisis in the Making [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Causes of the American Revolution: Soldiers and Civilians at War [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Causes of the American Revolution: The Stamp Act Crisis [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Causes of the American Revolution: Trouble in Boston [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Triangular Trade [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Benjamin Franklin: Colonial Printer and Journalist [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- The Bill of Rights [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Freedom of the Press: The Trial of Peter Zenger [United States History and Geography] (grade 5)
- Created Equal: Inventing the American Republic [United States History and Geography] (grade 8)
- A New Birth of Freedom: Lincoln's Presidency and the Civil War [United States History and Geography] (grade 8)
- A House Divided: Slavery and the Civil War [United States History and Geography] (grade 8)
- The Constitution on Trial: the Internment of the Japanese During World War II [United States History and Geography] (grade 11)
- "Will you let Jim Crow hold me back?" The Poetry and Prose of Langston Hughes [United States History and Geography] (grade 11)
- Lampooning Injustice: Paul Conrad's Perspective on Civil Rights [United States History and Geography] (grade 11)
Art Resources
Art Primary Source Websites
High-resolution primary source materials from The Huntington's collections, with didactics for using the materials in flexible and dynamic ways across multiple grade levels.
Art Lesson Plans/Vocabulary
Use vocabulary lists to support your school program visit, teacher-led visit, or in class.
Garden Resources
Garden Primary Source Websites
High-resolution primary source materials from The Huntington's collections, with didactics for using the materials in flexible and dynamic ways across multiple grade levels.
Garden Lesson Plans/Vocabulary
Use vocabulary lists to support your school program visit, teacher-led visit, or in class.
*Lesson plans made possible through a generous grant from The Los Angeles Times/Times Mirror Foundation.
**Units of study were made possible by the generous support of Dr. and Mrs. Peter S. Bing and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Munger. Additional funding was provided by Wells Fargo; Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library Services and Technology Act; the Times Mirror Foundation; Mrs. Helen Smetz; the GenCorp Foundation—Aerojet; and the Dorothy Clune Trask Murray Foundation.