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These guides and lesson plans are aligned to the Ohio Academic Content Standards for Social Studies.

Grade 5 Guide and Lesson Plans

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(Under development in 2006)
Grade 5 Cover - Dayton Public Schools
Grade 5 Table of Contents
Grade 5 Acknowledgements
Grade 5 How to Use This Guide
Grade 5 Primary and Secondary Sources
Grade 5 Unit 1: Social Studies Skills & Methods
Grade 5 Unit 2: Geography
Grade 5 Unit 3: Native Americans
Grade 5 Unit 4: Exploration
Grade 5 Unit 5: Colonization
Grade 5 Unit 6: American Revolution
Grade 5 Unit 7: Government and Citizenship
Grade 5 Unit 8: 1850-1930 Issues
Grade 5 Unit 9: Modern Issues

Grade 8 Guide and Lesson Plans

For examples of formal assessment
from achievement tests, Click Here.
(Under development in 2006)

Grade 8 Cover - Dayton Public Schools
Grade 8 Table of Contents
Grade 8 Acknowledgements
Grade 8 How to Use This Guide
Grade 8 Primary and Secondary Sources
Grade 8 Unit 1: The First Global Age
Grade 8 Unit 2: American Revolution
Grade 8 Unit 3: The U.S. Constitution
Grade 8 Unit 4: A New Nation
Grade 8 Unit 5: Growth and Expansion
Grade 8 Unit 6: Manifest Destiny
Grade 8 Unit 7: Road to Civil War
Grade 8 Unit 8: Civil War

Grade 8 Unit 9: Reconstruction

Grade 9 Guide and Lesson Plans

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from Ohio Graduation Test, Click Here.

Grade 9 Cover - Dayton Public Schools
Grade 9 Table of Contents
Grade 9 Acknowledgements
Grade 9 How to Use This Guide
Grade 9 Primary and Secondary Sources
Grade 9 Unit 1: 1877-1900
Grade 9 Unit 2: 1900-1910:
Industrialization & Labor
Grade 9 Unit 3: 1900-1910:
Immigration & Urbanization
Grade 9 Unit 4: 1900-1920
Grade 9 Unit 5: 1920-1930
Grade 9 Unit 6: 1930-1940
Grade 9 Unit 7: 1940-1950
Grade 9 Unit 8: 1950-1960
Grade 9 Unit 9: 1960-1970
Grade 9 Unit 10: 1970-1980
Grade 9 Unit 11: 1980-Today
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Teacher-Created Lesson Plans

Brown Comes To Dayton Lesson Plan for Grade 9 by Dr. Julieanne Phillips

  Brown Comes To Dayton: Grade 9

Native Americans Lesson Plan for Grade 5 by Rebecca Wead and Ron Wood

  Native Americans Lesson Plan: Grade 5

Vietnam War Lesson Plan for Grade 9 by Dr. Julieanne Phillips

  Vietnam War Lesson Plan: Grade 9

Women's History Lesson Plan for Grade 5 by Dr. Julieanne Phillips

  Women's History Lesson Plan: Grade 5

Women's History Lesson Plan for Grade 9 by Dr. Julieanne Phillips

  Women's History Lesson Plan: Grade 9

Immigration Lesson Plan for Grade 5 by Dr. Julieanne Phillips

  Immigration Lesson Plan: Grade 5

Immigration Lesson Plan for Grade 9 by Dr. Julieanne Phillips

  Immigration Lesson Plan: Grade 9

Virtual Field Trips to Dayton Area Historic Sites by Tim Binkley

  Aviation Virtual Field Trip Lesson Plans

Who, What, Why, Where, When: The Intolerable Acts Lesson Plan for Grade 5 by Erin Burke

  The Intolerable Acts Lesson Plan: Grade 5

Lesson Plans Created By The Columbus Teaching American History Project

  Columbus TAH Project Lesson Plans

The Historian as Detective: An Introduction to Primary and Secondary Sources by Dr. Julieanne Phillips

  An Introduction to Primary
  and Secondary Sources

The Historian as Detective: An Introduction to Historical Methodology by Dr. Julieanne Phillips

  An Introduction to Historical Methodology

Putting Dayton's History into Perspective by Zondra R. Harris

  Putting Dayton's History into Perspective

Aspects of Colonial American Life by Tina Kretzer

  Aspects of Colonial American Life

A History Day Program by Magdalene Brinkmann

  A History Day Program

History Fair by Bridget Federspiel

  History Fair

Selecting a Topic for History Day by Larra Berry-Williams

  Selecting a Topic for History Day

Journalizing Dayton's History and Life in the 1820s, 1910s, and 1930s by Lori Poindexter

  Journalizing Dayton's History and
  Life in the 1820s, 1910s, and 1930s

Federalism and the Constitution by Flo Tigner

  Federalism and the Constitution

Get On Board by Donna B. King

  Get On Board

The Progressive Era: National and Local by Elois Henderson

  The Progressive Era: National and Local

Taking a Stand on the Traits of a Good President by Donna McElrath

  Taking a Stand on the Traits of a Good President

Women Who Chose to Take a Stand During the Revolutionary War by Flo Tigner

  Women Who Chose to Take a Stand During the Revolutionary War

A Primary Document? What? by Jennifer Howard

  A Primary Document? What?

Taking a Stand: Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and Mother Bethel Church by Willie Freeman

  Taking a Stand: Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and Mother Bethel Church

Taking a Stand: Ratifying the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitutional Convention by Magdalene Brinkman

  Taking a Stand: Ratifying the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitutional Convention

Taking a Stand on Citizenship by Rebecca Bernard

  Taking a Stand on Citizenship

Taking a Stand on Freedom by Walt Petroski

  Taking a Stand on Freedom

Taking a Stand: Why Declare our Independence? by Wesley Rodenberg

  Taking a Stand: Why Declare our Independence?

American History and Cultural Diversity: The Dynamic Web by Lillian Drakeford

  American History and Cultural Diversity: The Dynamic Web

Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence by Lillian Drakeford

  Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence

Using Drama to Interpret Primary Sources and Investigate History by Jennifer Howard

  Using Drama to Interpret Primary Sources and Investigate History

If I had Traveled with Lewis and Clark by Kelly Roeser

  If I had Traveled with Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark Expedition and Their Extraordinary Mapping Skills by Wesley Rodenberg

  Lewis and Clark Expedition and Their Extraordinary Mapping Skills

Mapping the Class: Using Scale, Proportion and Grids to Create a Map by Belinda Linville

  Mapping the Class: Using Scale, Proportion and Grids to Create a Map

Getting Ready for the State History Day Contest by Cynthia Ambrose

  Getting Ready for the State History Day Contest

Echoes from the Past by Ida Nalls

  Echoes from the Past

Lesson Plans for a Unit on Reconstruction by Jay Higginbotham

  Lesson Plans for a Unit on Reconstruction

A History Day Program: Inventors and Inventions of Types of Communications by Ron Wood

  A History Day Program: Inventors and Inventions of Types of Communications

What is Terrorism? by Twyla Black

  What is Terrorism?

Sing a Song of my Country by Signoria McClure

  Sing a Song of my Country

Initiating National History Day by Sharon Goins

  Initiating National History Day

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