Lesson Plans

Students in the University of Vermont’s Education class, EDEL 157: Social Education and Social Studies created lesson plans using CDI collections as their source material. The class was designed for pre-service teachers, and these young teachers gained experience designing social studies curricula for early-elementary aged students. Selected lesson plans have been posted here as teaching resources.

Questions about lesson plans or the social studies curricula project can be directed to: Dan DeSanto, Howe Library (802) 656-5728 daniel.desanto@uvm.edu; Prudence Doherty, Silver Special Collections Library (802) 656-2138 prudence.doherty@uvm.edu.

Long Trail Photographs

Animals Along the Long Trail - Jacquelyn Arndt

Discovering Objects on the Long Trail - Cassie Lance

Let's Get Packing! - Hannah Trieb

Packing Up and Adding Up - Danielle E. Hall-Potvin

Piecing It All Together - Hannah Trieb

What To Take up Maxwell’s Mountain? - Jacquelyn Arndt

Porter C. Thayer Photographs

Calculating Travel Time - Then and Now - Hannah Pelkey

Examining Asher's Mill - Alexander Ostrum

Maple Sugaring - James Caswell

Sherman's Store - Williamsville, VT - James Caswell

Vermonters in the Civil War

Civil War Hard Bread - Carly Edelstein

Civil War Slang - Kristen Couillard

Diseases in the Civil War - Kathryn Seelen

Graphing Text with Civil War Letters - Kathryn Seelen

Mapping Fort Monroe - Carly Edelstein