Lesson Units Using Documents

The Greater Capital Region Teacher Center is proud to present the following lesson units using local documents digitized and posted on the Web through a grant from the Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund of the NY State Archives and Records Administration.  The lessons were researched and designed by local area teachers.

Lesson Units by Counties

Albany Civil War Soldier Voting

Slavery in New York's Capital City

New York City Draft Riots During the Civil War

Utilizing Government Documents in Studying Disease

Free Man or Slave?

Census Data 1865 to 2001

Lesson on World War II

The Civil Conservation Corps

I Have Culture: A Lesson in Multiculturalism and Diversity

The Role of Women

Crime in Albany-Reform Unit

Missing Persons
 

Rensselaer Lansinburgh and Troy through Local Government Records 

Early Road Construction in Schodack

The Role of Women

Historical Documents as they Relate to the City of Rensselaer

Being Young in the 1880's

Berlin, Stephentown, Petersburg and Grafton after the Civil War
 

Fulton Digging a Little Deeper into the Life and Times of Sir William Johnson
 
Saratoga The Gansevoorts and the "Old Yellow House"

Folk Songs of the Lumber Camps

The Battle of Saratoga

Revolutionary Math
 

Schenectady Jacob Vanvranken of Niskayuna, NY

Marriages Ending June, 1865 and the Harvest of 1864
 

Schoharie The Effects of Industrialization

A Day in the Life of a Schoharie County Farmer, 1859

Care of the Poor and Insane-Reform Period

Lesson on Prohibition
 

Warren The Census...Why?

Changing Industries in Warren County

River Drive

Products and Prices

Folk Songs of the Lumber Camps
 

Washington Folk Songs of the Lumber Camps

R. P. Dorlon and Co's Express Stages

The Human Cost of War

Greenwich at the Turn of the Century

Official Score Card