With Tenement Museum resources, students become historians. Using our teacher-designed, teacher-tested lesson plans, students engage in inquiry and learn to use critical thinking to interpret objects, oral histories, and primary sources, while making history relevant to today. Our classroom resources support multi-state History-Social Studies and English Language Arts curricula and can be used with or without a museum visit.
We currently offer four kinds of resources for teachers, including unit plans, lesson plans, and family stories. Whichever resource you select, you will find primary sources such as video stories, oral histories, documents, and photos in each. Educators can sort by grade level, unit plan, lesson plan, family stories, or primary source type below.
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Find the Confino family on the passenger list of a ship that brought immigrants to the...
Look at a report card from 1914 and see how a 12-year-old immigrant girl, Victoria Confino...
Learn the ins and outs of the garment factory the Levine family ran out of their own home.
Investigate how an immigrant family in the 1870’s got help in a time of need.
Students find 8-10 facts about the people in this building 150 years ago. Who is the...
See the type of work an immigrant family from the early 20th century, The Rogarshevksys,...
Gather information about the Levines, a family who immigrated from the Russian Empire in...
Find Adolfo Baldizzi, an immigrant from Italy, on this 1923 Ship Manifest.
See how an immigrant from Germany, Natalie Gumpertz, is supporting her family in 1880.
Track the different neighborhoods an Irish immigrant family lived in and consider why they...
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