These lesson plans were designed by Liz Swasey, an teacher with years of experience teaching High School. They are suitable for high schoolers in advanced history courses.
- An Introduction to Maps as Primary Source Documents: Reading Maps Critically
- Appropriate for advanced students of history.
- Lesson Plan to Supplement American Treasures: Of Climates and Empire
- For Advanced Students of U.S. History, Western Civilization or Humanities
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- Lesson to Supplement The Changing Peninsula
- For advanced students of U.S. History, Urban Studies, Regional Studies
- Central Question: What forces have changed the landscape of Portland over the centuries?
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- Lesson Plan to Supplement Mapping the Republic
- For advanced students of U.S. History.
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- Lesson Plan to Supplement Exodus and Exile: The Spaces of Diaspora
- Lesson Plans to Supplement Road Maps: The American Way
- For Advanced Students of American Literature, U.S. History or Humanities.
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- Lesson Plans to Supplement The Cartographic Creation of New England
- Tailored to ESL or ELL students.
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