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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Teach students about labor movements with the 1910 census and a 16-year old...
Teach students about how a Puerto Rican family made a difference with their oral histories.
Students examine primary source documents in order to reconstruct the immigration story of...
Students examine primary source documents to reconstruct part of the history of the...
Students use primary source documents to piece together the story of Victoria Confino,...
Students investigate primary source documents in order to learn about people, places,...
Students explore how multiple perspectives are integral to understanding history.
Students explore how historians use oral histories to understand events, people, and...
Students utilize oral histories as a tool for learning about people, places, and events.
Students investigate how historians and curators use historical objects to inform our...
Students explore a collection of objects in order to identity their owner.
Students examine a collection of historical objects in search of clues.
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