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 Historical Period

Time Period Lesson Units Counties Grade Levels Related
Links

1600's to the present The Role of  Women Albany, Rensselaer 9-12 National Archives Woman Suffrage
1715-1774 Digging a Little Deeper into the Life and Times of Sir William Johnson Fulton 4-6 Sir William Johnson
1749 to the present The Gansevoorts and the "Old Yellow House" Saratoga 9-12 Saratoga County Archives
1771-1930 Lansinburgh and Troy through Local Government Records  Rensselaer 4-6, 7-8 Brief History of Labor and Industry in Cohoes
1777 and present The Battle of Saratoga Saratoga 9-12 Battle of Saratoga Map
1790 to the present The Census...Why? Warren 9-12 NYState History Repositories
1795 Revolutionary Math Saratoga 4-6 Saratoga County Archives
1795, 1802, 1832 Early Road Construction in Schodack Rensselaer 7-8 Local History Network
1820 The Effects of Industrialization Schoharie 9-12 Schoharie History  Links
1830-1899 The Industrial Revolution in Greene County Greene 7-8 GreeneCounty Historical Society
1850 Jacob Vanvranken of Niskayuna, NY Schenectady 4-6 Schenectady County Historical Society
1850-1950 Folk Songs of the Lumber Camps Washington, Warren, 
Saratoga
1-3 Adirondack Museum Education
1851-1998 R. P. Dorlon and Co's Express Stages Washington 4-6 Washington County Links
1859 A Day in the Life of a Schoharie County Farmer, 1859 Schoharie 4-6 Rural Life in the U.S.
1864-1865 Marriages Ending June, 1865 and the Harvest of 1864 Schenectady 4-6 Schenectady Digital History Archive
1864 Care of the Poor and Insane-Reform Period Albany 7-8 Albany Poorhouse History
1864 Civil War Soldier Voting Albany 7-8 U.S. Civil War Center
1860-1865 New York City Draft Riots During the Civil War Albany 9-12 Civil War Collection
1860-1865 Free Man or Slave? Albany 7-8 Slavery Bibliography
 1860-1865 Slavery in New York's Capital City Albany 7-8 Albany Hall of Records
 1865-present Changing Industries in Warren County Warren 9-12 Warren County Historical Society
 1865-present Census Data 1865 to 2001 Albany 4-6 Albany Hall of Records
 1865, 1875, 1876 Berlin, Stephentown, Petersburg and Grafton after the Civil War Rensselaer 7-8 Vital Records in NYS
1860's The Human Cost of War Washington 7-8 Washington County Records
1870, 1897 Historical Documents as they Relate to the City of Rensselaer Rensselaer 7-8 Rensselaer City Library
1875-present Utilizing Government Documents in Studying Disease Albany 9-12 City Clerk's Office
1880's Being Young in the 1880's Rensselaer 7-8 Rensselaer County Historical Society
1890 River Drive Warren 1-3 Town of Queensbury info.
1890-1998 Products and Prices Warren 1-3 Queensbury Town Historian
1890-1920 Greenwich at the Turn of the Century Washington 7-8 Greenwich Free Library
1897-1994 Crime in Albany-Reform Unit Albany 7-8 County Records Descriptions
1911-present I Have Culture: A Lesson in Multi Culturalism and Diversity Albany 9-12 Immigration History Center
1920-1921 Official Score Card Washington 4-6 Washington County Archives
1920's Lesson on Prohibition Schoharie 9-12 Library of Congress on Prohibition
1921-present Missing Persons Albany 4-6 NYS Missing Children Register
1933 The Civil Conservation Corps Albany 11-12 The Great Depression
1939-1942 World War II Albany 11-12 Casualties by County

 

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