Lesson Plans
Teaching with Historic Places regularly introduces new on-line lesson plans. The latest offerings include:

NEW! "Comfortable Camps?" Archeology of the Confederate Guard Camp at the Florence Stockade
Learn about the life of the Confederate guards at the Florence Stockade Civil War prison camp and discover how archeology revealed much of this information.

“Making the Desert Bloom”: The Rio Grande Project
Discover how the Bureau of Reclamation transformed the arid valley of the Rio Grande by constructing Elephant Butte Dam and the Rio Grande irrigation project and to examine some of the problems encountered along the way.

Primary Sources Index
Looking for primary sources? Teaching with Historic Places offers an index of primary sources included in our online lesson plans. Organized by type of primary source--such as books; charts, graphs, and tables; facsimiles; government reports/documents; images; maps; newspapers/magazines; personal documents; political cartoons; etc.--the index makes it easy for teachers to find primary images and documents to use in the classroom. Many sources fall into more than one category, which also facilitates searching.

Youth Summits
Youth Summits prepare middle school and high school students to be active citizens and preservation stewards. By engaging students in on-site, real-world issues facing historic preservation, heritage tourism, public history, and conservation, these summits benefit not only the participating young people, but also educators, professionals, and community leaders.  

The Youth Summits section of the TwHP wesbite offers a step-by-step How-To Guide for people and institutions interested in organizing their own Youth Summit, resources for planning a summit, sample agendas, and other helpful information.

Field Studies in the Methods Course
TwHP's Teaching Teachers the Power of Place website includes a detailed "how to" on planning and conducting field studies. Unlike "field trips," "field studies" engage participants in active on-site investigation of historic places. Both explaining the intellectual basis and providing a step-by-step process, this guide will serve not only history and social studies methods professors, but also any educator who wants to enhance leanring during visits to historic sites