March Lesson Plans 

We are posting five NEW lesson plans for March.  This month, we have new lesson plans on steamboat transportation in Alabama, World War I, World War II, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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• Steamboat Transportation in Alabama (created by Cindy Tennimon, Jefferson Davis High School, Montgomery County Schools)
    
• Alabama's Rainbow Division (created by Karen Bartl, Foley Middle School, Baldwin County Schools)
    
• World War II - Life on the Home Front in Alabama(created by Peter Sanders, Berry Middle School, Hoover City Schools)
   
• World War II Home Front - Mobilization in Alabama(created by Peter Sanders, Berry Middle School, Hoover City Schools)
   
• Montgomery Bus Boycott:  We Would Rather Walk! (created by Jimmie Freeman, Deshler Middle School, Tuscumbia City Schools)

We still still have a few FREE classroom sets of the The Alabama Guide available to schools to be picked up at the Archives.  The first 241 pages offer students an easily read, illustrated history of Alabama and will be invaluable to schools that have limited resources and textbooks.  The second half of the book contains information about Alabama state government at the time of publication.  The reading level is more appropriate for high school students, but elementary students will enjoy exploring the history of  Alabama through historic photographs.

Please complete this form to reserve your set.  Anyone from your central office can pick these up for you when  in Montgomery for meetings. The Alabama Department of Archives and History is open each day and on the second Saturday of each month from 8:30 to 4:30.  

Some school systems will be using these as textbooks for an Alabama History elective next year.

(Please note:  Each classroom set is composed of 4 boxes of 8 books each.  Each box weighs approximately 34 lbs.)

Professional Development Opportunities

Alabama Humanities Foundation:

SUPER Institutes for Teachers  

2011 Jenice Riley Memorial Scholarship

Online Resources

The Women of Alabama:  Online Exhibit and Activities

 (Provides teachers and students with an online,  photographic exhibit taken from the collections of the ADAH.  Writing exercises, rubrics  and classroom activities are included.)

 Becoming Alabama Activity Booklet and Events List for Children

(Provides teachers and students with activities to use in the commemoration of three major events in United States and Alabama history.  A list of events is hyperlinked for additional information.) 

Final Farewells: Signing a Yearbook on the Eve of the Civil War

Smithsonian Education 

(Provides a lesson plan and primary source that features a yearbook from 1860 and messages from classmates who would fight on opposite sides of the Civil War.)

 Wordle

(A FREE program that allows you and your students to create graphic word clouds.)