Star Armada Archivist Activity

Star Armada Archivist Activity

Struggling with teaching controversial history? Not sure where to begin? Experience our new activity for 4th-12th grade students, the Star Armada Archivist Academy! Students learn how historians navigate difficult history by roleplaying as galactic explorers. Encounter sci-fi scenarios based on real-life situations taken from our historical work and learn how historians respond! In the end, your students must band together to solve a diplomatic crisis of cosmic proportions. Navigate the trials of historical work in a new and exciting way!

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Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Suffrage Activity 1

Do you know about soapbox speeches? In this activity you will find more about this style of speech made popular during the Women’s Suffrage movement and learn how to write and deliver your soapbox speeches!

Grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Suffrage Activity 2

Check out Lucy Stone’s famous speech “Disappointment Is the Lot of Women”. Then learn how to analyze it using visual imagery and artwork.

Grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Suffrage Activity 3

You are now a museum curator! We will guide you as you create your own exhibit about an important figure in women’s history.

Grades 6, 7, 8

Suffrage Activity 4

Take a look at these suffrage flyers, poster and political cartoons! We will show you how to create your own propaganda materials.

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Suffrage Activity 5

Have you ever considered how much we can learn from a political cartoon?

We will provide you with a great example and some guided questions that will make you an expert in the subject.

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Technology of the First World War

This resource guide helps teachers to use World War I source material from the World War I in Ohio Collection on Ohio Memory in the classroom. This interactive activity explores technologies developed during WWI.

This resource was created by staff of the Ohio History Connection for Little Stories of the Great War: Ohioans in World War I, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Resources are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

The 1920s KKK from an Immigrant Perspective- Lesson 1

Check out Chronicling America

and find out how to search this website to find evidence of the past, detect biases in newspaper articles and understand the activities of the Ku Klux Klan from an immigrant perspective. In this activity you will get a historical overview of the KKK presence in the Midwest.

This resource was created by the Ohio History Connection for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress. They are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

The 1920s KKK from an Immigrant Perspective- Lesson 2

Check out Chronicling America

and find out how to search this website to find evidence of the past, detect biases in newspaper articles and understand the activities of the Ku Klux Klan from an immigrant perspective. In this activity you will see how immigrants in Ohio have responded to the KKK presence in the state.

This resource was created by the Ohio History Connection for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress. They are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

The 1920s KKK from an Immigrant Perspective- Lesson 3

Check out Chronicling America

and find out how to search this website to find evidence of the past, detect biases in newspaper articles and understand the activities of the Ku Klux Klan from an immigrant perspective. In this activity you will see how immigrants in Ohio have responded to the KKK presence in the state.

This resource was created by the Ohio History Connection for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress. They are provided for free and are available for non-commercial use and reuse with attribution to the Ohio History Connection.

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

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