Roaring Twenties
Lesson Plans and Activities
For Teachers
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Poetry Slam Classroom Activity - The Poetry of Langston Hughes (Donn)
"When the Negro was in Vogue", Langston Hughes - handout with questions (Donn)
Grade 11 Model Lessons - Harlem Renaissance
Plus: Harlem Renaissance Games for Kids
The 18th and 21st Amendments - Prohibition and Repeal of Prohibition
How Teachers Can Make the Most of Prohibition (lesson plans)
Prohibition Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities (pbs)
Plus: Roaring 20s Prohibition Classroom Activities and Projects
Teaching the 1920s, lesson plans on key topics
The Roaring Twenties - Unit, Culture
The Aftermath of War - Cultural Clashes in the 1920s lesson plans
What was the roar of the 1920s? lesson plans
League of Nations, Debate in the United States over the League of Nations (3 lessons)
Return to Isolationism - Disarmament Conferences, Restrictions on Immigration
The Great Gatsby Student Study Guide (60 pages)
The Great Gatsby, Pearson, Activity Worksheets
The Greta Gatsby, Chapter by Chapter activities, TES
The Great Gatsby Crossword Puzzle (to print out)
Jazz in America - Lesson Plans (5th, 8th, HS)
Simulation Lesson Plan The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Giggle Water and Struggle Buggies (1920's, unit, Core Knowledge)
Women - Right to Vote, 19th amendment, ratified 1920
The Stock Market Game - Simulation
By the People, For the People, Unit (Stock Market Crash - Pre-WW2) & Support Materials
For Kids
Take the Quiz, Interactive (with answers)
Plus ...
Free American History Presentations in PowerPoint format
Explore American History
For Kids and Teachers
Creating a New Nation
- New World Explorers
- Native Americans in Olden Times
- The 13 Colonies
- Road to Revolution
- The American Revolution
Creating a New Government
Western Expansion
- Jefferson and theNew Republic
- Louisiana Purchase
- Lewis & Clark
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Manifest Destiny
- The Oregon Trail
- Wagon Trains
- Pioneer Life & Frontier Life
- Trail of Tears
- The Alamo 1836, Texas Revolution
- Mexican - American War 1846-1848
- Gold Rush
Brink of the Storm and the Civil War
- Events Leading up to the American Civil War
- The Industrial Revolution
- American Civil War - 1861-1865
- People of the Civil War - Lincoln, Davis, Grant, Lee, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Dred Scott and more
- 13th Amendment ending slavery forever
- Reconstruction, Carpetbaggers & Scalawags
- 14th & 15th Amendments
Growth in the West
The Nation Grows
World War I, The Great War
The Roaring 20s
The Great Depression
World War II
Slavery in America
Segregation for Kids - Civil Rights
US Holidays
QUIZZES - Interactive, with Answers for Student Review
For Teachers
Free for Classroom Use - American History Powerpoints and Presentations
American History Lesson Plans, Units, Activities, Projects for Teachers
