Title: Underground Railroad Lesson 1: Harriett Tubman Type of teaching unit: Lesson Plan Grade Level(s) 2nd Time Frame: 3 days Subject Matter: Social Studies

Teacher Information:

Charlotte Edwards
Officer Elementary School
AAM affiliation: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
cjeteach1@hotmail.com

Lesson plan description and rationale:

The students will enhance and expand their technology skills by researching primary sources on the American Memory website. Students will understand the historical significance of the Underground Railroad. Students will increase their mapping   skills. Student’s knowledge of vocabulary words will increase.

State Standards:

Social Studies Standards:

 A. Apply the skills of historical analysis and interpretation. 16.A.1a  Explain the difference between past, present and future time; place themselves in time. 16.a.1b Ask historical questions and seek out answers from historical sources (e.g., myths,  biographies, stories, old photographs, artwork, other visual or electronic sources).

A. Locate, describe and explain places, regions and features on the Earth. 17. A.1a Identify physical characteristics of places, both local and global ( e.g., locations, roads, regions, bodies of water). 17. A. 1b Identify the characteristics and purposes of geographic representations including maps, globes, photographs, software, digital images and be able to locate specific places using each.

Objective:

Students will use the American Memory website to view primary resources. Students will complete KWL on the Underground Railroad. Students will listen to story about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Students will use the website to view images of Harriet Tubman. Students will develop and apply mapping skills as they chart the route of the southern and northern states of the Underground Railroad using the website.

Resources:

	No photographer given Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York]. 1911 American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/awhbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+02909))] (February 2004).
	Rankin, John "Freedom Stairway" No date given. John Rankin House (Ripley, Ohio) Small Picture Collection [http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=4630] No digital identification number. (February 2004)
	Johnson, Edwin Ferry Map of the proposed Northern Route for a railroad to the Pacific. 1853.  Map Collections: 1500-2004 [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701p+rr000240))] http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701p.rr000240 (February 2004)
	Lloyd, James T.  “Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads,their stations & distances, also the counties, towns, villages,harbors, rivers, and forts.” 1861.  Civil War Maps [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3860+cw0014200))] [g3860 cw0014200] [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3860.cw0014200] (February 2004)
	Wyld, James Wyld's military map of the United States, the northern states, and the southern confederate states: with the forts, harbours, arsenals, and military positions. 1861 Civil War Maps [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701s+cw0019000))] [g3701s cw0019000] [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701s.cw0019000] (February 2004)
	William Reynolds. Reynolds's Political Map of the United States . . . . 1856.  Antebellum Map Showing the Free and Slave States [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3b.html] No digital identification number. (February 2004).
	No Author. Certificate of Freedom of Harriet Bolling 1851. Carter G. Woodson Collection [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html] No digital identification number. (February 2004).

Underground Railroad Resources

Methods:

Anticipatory Set:

Students will complete KWL on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Students will discuss keywords for the lesson. Students will listen as the teacher read the story “Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold. Students will revisit KWL to complete additional information and discuss the story.

1.      (1^st day) Students will view images of Harriett Tubman and the routes that the Underground traveled.

2.      (2^nd day) Students will discuss and identify the southern and northern routes of the Underground Railroad.

3.      (3^rd day) Students will envision themselves on the Underground Railroad and chart an escape route from the south to a free state in the north.

4.      (3^rd day) Students will create a map and include the escape route.

Evaluation: Students will be able to discuss the historical contributions of Harriett Tubman. Students will successfully be able to locate and view images on the American Memory website using search tools. Students will be able to revisit and chart the historical route of the Underground Railroad.

Keywords for this lesson: slavery, freedom, plantation, escape, North, South, route, conductor, underground railroad.