We provide downloadable resources for teachers including lesson plans, historic maps, articles and useful links. Use these resources to plan fun interactive lessons to teach students about history. Click on the headers below to expand the section and browse the list of subjects available for download as well as links to helpful websites. All downloadable items are in PDF format.
Jump to: Lesson Plans - Teacher Workshop Presentations - Early Transportation Maps - Links of Interest
Lesson Plans
Ethnic Background
- A Little Bit of French, Anyone?
- Conflict of Cultures: Indians & White Settlers
- Early French Inhabitants of Indiana: Our Lost Legacy
- Indian Pow Wow & Related Activities
- Indians
- Intentional German Communities in Indiana: Dubois & Spencer Counties
- Life at a French Fur Trading Post
- Native American Religious Beliefs
- The Amish in Indiana
- The French Connection
- The French in Indiana
Significant Events
- Cultures in Conflict: Indian Removal in Indiana
- Indiana and the Civil War: Bingo Review Activity
- The Civil War
- The Pigeon Roost Massacre
Important Locations
- A Visit to Indiana's First State Capital
- Angel Site of Southwestern Indiana
- Corydon, Indiana, 1813-1825
- Historic Newburgh: A Local History Investigation
- Historic Southern Indiana: A Cooperative Learning Assignment
- Scott County History
- Teaching County History: Dubois County, Indiana
- The Staging of the Indiana Frontier
- The Wabash and Erie Canal
- Visiting George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
People of Interest
- Abe Lincoln: An Atypical Hoosier Adolescent in a Typical Pioneer Community
- Abraham Lincoln: The Early Indiana Years
- Alice Earl of Lafayette
- Francois Marie Bissot, Sieur De Vincennes, French Founder of Vincennes, Indiana
- George Rogers Clark
- Jonathan Jennings: Indiana's First Governor
- Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's Civil War Governor
- Pioneers
- The Shakers
- William Henry Harrison: The Acquisition of Indian Lands
Subjects of Note
- A Seating Arrangement Designed to Stimulate Interest in Indiana History
- Children and Money Management in the Mini-Economy
- Early Pioneer History, Local and New Harmony
- Foods of the Pioneer Family
- Frontier Medicine
- Grist Mills of Early America & Today
- How May the United States Be Divided into Regions?
- Indiana History Baseball
- Indiana Underground Railroad Folklore: Western Route & Daviess County
- Kids Involved with Indiana
- Lesson Plans to Accompany Major's "The Bears of Blue River"
- Owenite Education in New Harmony
- Pioneer Day Activities
- Pioneer Period of Southern Indiana
- Reckonin' the Rectangular Surveying System
- River Transportation
- Role Playing with Children
- Roman Catholic Schools in Indiana in the 19th Century
- The Daily Life of Pioneers in Indiana
- Using Projects to Teach Indiana History
- Using Time Lines
- Utopia on the Wabash: The Harmonie Society
- Values in Time: Spring Mill Folklore
Presentations from Teacher Workshops
- Indiana’s Underground Railroad (YouTube)
- The Underground Railroad in Madison, Indiana (YouTube)
- Stagecoaches & Inns on the Buffalo Trace (YouTube)
- Pioneer Plants & Cooking (YouTube)
- History of the Miami Indian Nation (YouTube)
- Indiana’s Natural Landscape Prior to Statehood (YouTube)
- Corydon Capitol State Historic Site (YouTube)
- Vincennes State Historic Site (YouTube)
- Southern Indiana and the Civil War (PDF)
- Native Americans – Mann Site to Angel Mounds (PowerPoint)
- Forts of Southern Indiana (PowerPoint)
Early Transportation Maps (image files)
- Canals
- Early Transportation 1
- Early Transportation 2
- Early Transportation 3
- Lincoln Family Route
- Mississippi River Valley
- Physiographic Regions
- Railways: 1860
- Railways: 1880
- Railways: 1880 version 2
- Rivers
- Westward Movement
Links of Interest
Educational Resources
- National Park Service - Teaching with Historic Places
- Indiana Historical Society Chapters & Lesson Plans
- Hoosier History and Indiana State Parks Lesson Plans
- Indiana Historical Society lesson plans
- Visit Indiana: 4th grade social studies curriculum
- Grade 1-12 history lesson plans from BSU & Indiana State Library
- Indiana's Historic Pathways Historic Articles Series
- Indiana's Historic Pathways Coloring & Activity Book
- New Harmony and Robert Owen Lesson Plans
- Buffalo Trace Classroom Activities
- The Indiana Historian Articles