Primary Source Packets
Access approximately 100 archives educator-curated primary source packets on an array of local history topics from the Civil Rights Movement to Neighborhood History and Gentrification in Brooklyn. Each packet includes thoughtful document-based questions to help students analyze and synthesis primary sources about Brooklyn's people, places and events. Download free copies of our primary source packets here!
Society & Culture
Black Brooklyn | Community Organizing in Brooklyn | Child Welfare | Civil Rights | Civil War | Draft Riots | Eminent Domain | Environmentalism | Food | Gentrification | German Immigration | Great Depression | Housing | Transportation | Immigration | Italian Immigration | LGBTQ+ Movement | Modern Medicine | Native Americans | Revolutionary War | Slavery and Abolition | Women during the Civil War | Women in Brooklyn
Neighborhoods
Places & Landmarks
Bridges of Brooklyn | Brooklyn Academy of Music | Brooklyn Army Terminal | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn Bridge | Brooklyn Navy Yard | Coney Island Amusement Parks | Cypress Hills Cemetery | Dreamland Park | Ebbets Field | Green-Wood Cemetery | Luna Park | New York Aquarium | Newtown Creek | Plymouth Church | Prospect Park | Prospect Park Zoo | Steeplechase Park | The Roeblings and their Bridge | Verrazano Bridge
ADDITIONAL PACKETS AVAILABLE INCLUDE: Architecture in Brooklyn | Drummer Boys | WWII and the Brooklyn Navy Yard | Garment Industry | Independent Research | Irish of Vinegar Hill | Jackie Robinson & The Brooklyn Dodgers | Lenape Native Americans | Oyster Industry | School History: Boys and Girls High School | School History: Brooklyn Democracy Academy | School History in Brooklyn | School History: PS 131 | School History: PS 284 | Sugar Industry | Ridgewood Reservoir | U.S.S. Monitor | Robert Moses' impact on Brooklyn | World War One and Brooklyn
Skills Based Lesson Plans
Our team supports K-12 educators to deliver skill-based instruction through a local history lens. Download free, curriculum and standards-aligned lesson plans written by educators that can be differentiated for elementary, middle or high school students.
Cornell Note Method | Note Card Lesson Plan| Essay Structure | Corroborating Sources
Claim & Counterclaim | Creating a Time Capsule | Thick and Thin Questions | Developing an Argument | Crafting a Strong Thesis Statement |
Crafting a Research Question | History Mystery | Crafting a Strong Thesis Statement | Introduction to Research | Steps to Effective Research | Analyzing Historic Bias
Annotated Bibliography | Citing & Plagiarism
