History Day 2023 IDEA BANK
History Day 2023 Each year, National History Day® frames students’ research within a historical theme.…
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Grades 3 & 4: Advocating for Voting Rights Lesson Plan
Using Where I Live: Connecticut’s story “1920: Votes for Women” for third and fourth graders,…
Grade 3/4 – WHERE I LIVE: CONNECTICUT
Where I Live: Connecticut, the new social studies resource for third/fourth grade about Connecticut is…
Grades 5 – 8: Venture Smith’s Colonial Connecticut
Grades 5 – 8 Early U.S. History, African American History Venture Smith’s Colonial Connecticut 108-page…
High School: African American History in Connecticut
THE STORIES Stories from back issues of Connecticut Explored and episodes from our companion podcast Grating the…
Grade 8: Did Slavery Just Happen in the South?
Published narratives by formerly enslaved people who escaped to Connecticut in the 19th century reveal…
Grade 8: What’s Connecticut’s Story of Immigration?
Until the 1840s, Connecticut’s population was dominated by the British. There was a smattering of…
Grade 8: Connecticut in the Civil War
Connecticut in the Civil War (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. In the mid-1800s, relations between the…
Grade 8: What’s Connecticut’s Role in Westward Expansion?
By Connecticut Explored In the early Republic, Connecticut’s economy was largely focused east and south.…
100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
Summer 2020 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage EDUCATORS! Scroll down for lesson plans p.13 State…
Grade 8 – 12: Connecticut and its Constitutions
Special issue: 200th Anniversary of the Constitution of 1818 Stories in the issue: Where the…
3rd Grade Inquiry: To Work or to School?
COMPELLING QUESTION: Are children better prepared for adulthood by working or by going to school?…
High School: Labor History in Connecticut
Find stories about labor and working in Connecticut HERE.
History of Voting Toolkit: High School
Compelling Question: Why Should I Vote? The right to vote is the most elemental right of…
BOOK: African American Connecticut Explored
NOW IN PAPERBACK! Click here to purchase Connecticut League of History Organizations 2014 AWARD…