Teacher Resources

This section offers a selection of classroom resources in social studies, literature and the humanities.

All the tools in this section were developed by teachers, for teachers. Teachers all over the country are working to create lesson plans, activities, WebQuests, and other teaching materials that bring together the PBS television series and the resources on this site to construct teaching aids designed with today's classroom in mind. To learn more about the contributors to this Web site, click here.

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Interactive Exhibitions:

The Melrose Interactive Slavery Environment, more than a year in the making, takes your students into Melrose, a pre-Civil War "suburban estate." Students will explore the estate from the perspective of the men, women, and children who were enslaved there.

"Roads to Freedom" is an interactive exhibition that will allow students to explore the six routes most frequently taken by enslaved men and women who were seeking their liberty. Combining primary-source documents, images, slave narratives, spoken narration, and original music, the exhibition conveys the enormity of the challenges slaves faced and the intelligence, courage, and persistence with which they attempted to surmount them.

Slavery Gateway: Explore teacher evaluated Web sites on a wide variety of topics pertaining to slavery history and literature. The sites on this gateway have been recommended for their quality and resource value to teachers and students and will continue to grow as the site grows.

National Park Service Online Resources for Slavery: The National Park service offers many educational materials for teachers on the topic of slavery. Our teachers have combed the NPS web site and have organized the slavery related historic sites, lessons, and materials for easy access.

Lesson Plans: Teachers contribute their best lessons on the topics, events, and literature they think are the most important in the history of slavery in America.