The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized foreign language newspapers. Students will learn how to search the Chronicling America website to find evidence of the past, detect bias in newspaper articles, and analyze the activities of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in a historical context and from an immigrant perspective. Lesson 1 of 3.

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized foreign language newspapers. Students will learn how to search the Chronicling America website to find evidence of the past, detect bias in newspaper articles, and analyze the activities of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in a historical context and from an immigrant perspective. Lesson 2 of 3.

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized foreign language newspapers. Students will learn how to search the Chronicling America website to find evidence of the past, detect bias in newspaper articles, and analyze the activities of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in a historical context and from an immigrant perspective. Lesson 3 of 3.

Introduce students to the role and contributions of African American World War I soldiers.

In this activity, students will examine newspaper clippings from the Dayton Forum, an African-American newspaper available on Chronicling America, to explore the first African-American exhibit held at a World’s Fair in the United States. They will consider what role they had in creating the exhibit, what their intentions were, and what their participation at the World’s Fair can tell us about American race relations on the eve of World War II. This lesson plan may also serve as a jumping off point for National History Day and the 2021 contest theme of Communication in History: The Key to Understanding.

In this activity, students will be introduced to the topic of the Atomic Age. During the period from 1945-1962, people all across the United States debated the topic of atomic energy and weapons. Many people supported their use, while others questioned their efficacy. Much of this debate played out in newspaper columns and editorial letters. In this Document Based Question activity, students will read excerpts from newspaper articles printed during this time period. Students will analyze these excerpts and use them as evidence in a final essay that argues for or against the use of atomic energy and/or weapons.

Introduce students to Camp Sherman, the Mound City Earthworks, and the challenges of preservation.

This interactive classroom activity engages students with food conservation during the World War I by using primary source material from the World War I in Ohio Collection on Ohio Memory. This packet includes three activities using war posters, a newspaper bulletin, and rationing calendar with supplemental materials.

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized Polish-American newspapers. Students will learn how to search the Chronicling America website to find evidence of the past, detect bias in newspaper articles, and place current immigration issues in a historical context.

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized Polish-American newspapers. Students will learn how to search the Chronicling America website to find evidence of the past, detect bias in newspaper articles, and place current immigration issues in a historical context.

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. The material included in this resource guide engages students with technologies developed during World War I that shaped the world after the war’s end.

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. The material included in this resource guide engages students with the soldier experience from enlistment and training to service overseas.

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized German-American newspapers. Students will learn how to research using Chronicling America , how to translate and analyze foreign-language texts, and gain a deeper understanding of the German-American experience in Ohio during World War I (WWI).

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized German-American newspapers. Students will learn how to research using Chronicling America , how to translate and analyze foreign-language texts, and gain a deeper understanding of the German-American experience in Ohio during World War I (WWI).

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized German-American newspapers. Students will learn how to research using Chronicling America , how to translate and analyze foreign-language texts, and gain a deeper understanding of the German-American experience in Ohio during World War I (WWI).

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized German-American newspapers. Students will learn how to research using Chronicling America , how to translate and analyze foreign-language texts, and gain a deeper understanding of the German-American experience in Ohio during World War I (WWI).

The following education materials have been created to engage students with digitized German-American newspapers. Students will learn how to research using Chronicling America , how to translate and analyze foreign-language texts, and gain a deeper understanding of the German-American experience in Ohio during World War I (WWI).

Illustrate connections between Ohio’s industrialization and World War I, including immigration and the role of corporations in the war effort.

Learn more about World War I by doing what historians do–analyzing visual media! Students will learn how to examine and interpret visual materials produced during World War I, and will better understand the importance of visual culture as a primary source and a means of recording history. This recorded program, uses World War I era photographs, posters, and cartoons to practice the skills required to analyze and interpret images. Teachers can show the recorded program to the class to start the activity, and continue the lesson with students by using the program packet, which includes additional images, descriptions, and supplemental questions to engage students with the content and develop analytical skills. The program packet includes a teacher’s guide, student photograph analysis worksheet, teacher’s image guide, and student image worksheet and answer key.