Teacher Resources

Ohio: The Inside Story

• Complete Teacher's Guide of Activities
  for all included lessons 2.3mb pdf.

Index of Lessons Featured:

PDF Lesson sheets are approx. 600-700kb file size each.

• Dora Schwebel
• Ohio Columbus Barber: America’s Match King
• Black Hand Gorge
• Ohio’s First Wind Farm
• The Rock in the River
• Chester F. Carlson Invents Xerography
• Ohio’s Columbus of the Skies: Leslie C. Peltier
• Ohio Castles
• Ohio’s Great Black Swamp
• The Wilds of Ohio
• Salmon P. Chase
• John Mercer Langston
• Ohio’s Olympic History
• Jacob Wilson Parott, First Medal of Honor Winner
• Tell Taylor
• The Convention That Wasn’t
• Cincinnati’s Good, Clean Company
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• “Behalt”: The Painting of a People’s History
• WWII Prisoner of War Camps
• The Crash of the USS Shenandoah
• Cowboys in Ohio
• Voice of America
• Ohio’s Fort Fizzle

America Votes Teacher's Guides

From Kids Voting USA and the NIE

• Electing A President - A Guide to the Election Process -1mb pdf
• Election Primary - Guide to using the newspaper in the study of elections -3mb pdf
• It's Your Government- How to Participate -1.2mb pdf
• Election News Guide -Study of the Elections by using NIE -2.65mb pdf
• Teacher's Guide Intro: “America Votes” 160.12KB
• Feature 1: “The Road to the White House” 224KB
• Activity 1: Board Game 244.02KB
  Purpose: Things voters and candidates do in preparing for an election.
• Feature 2: “Governments, Branches and Officeholders” 496.77KB
• Activity 2: Quiz Sheet 316.94KB
  Purpose: Identify officeholders and the jobs they do in the three branches of government and at the three levels of government.
• Feature 3: “Primaries and Caucuses” 345.56K
• Activity 3: Race to the Nomination 119.83KB
  Purpose: Monitor the presidential primary.Interpret and organize information about the election process.
• Feature 4: “Becoming Informed” 325.29KB
• Activity4: Media Spin 433.07KB
  Purpose: Recognize the role that the media plays in providing information and advertising about candidates.
• Feature 5: “Rights and Responsibilities” 299.60KB
• Activity 5: Get Out And Vote! 208.29KB
  Purpose: Analyze political cartoons and discuss the value of voting and who has the right to vote.
• Feature 6: “Voting Rights” 231.30KB
• Activity 6: Voting Rights Timeline 95.58KB
  Purpose: Examine and order the history of voting rights in America.

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