Teaching Iowa History creates relationships between lesson plans, essays (Iowa Stories), bibliography, and objects through a tagging framework developed by the Iowa History Advisory Council. The tagging framework will assist you in connecting lessons with additional information and artifacts to enrich learning. You may start exploring from any of several vantage points.
VIEW LESSON PLANS
- Click View Lesson Plans in the menu above; use the filters on the left of the Lesson Plans page to drill down results.
- Click on any lesson plan and use the eras and themes to find similar lessons or secondary sources.
- View by Iowa History Era to see lesson plans and related secondary sources related to that era.
- View by tag or theme, city or county, or person.
- View by Iowa Core Standard to see the lesson plans associated with each grade level and standard.
EDUCATOR RESOURCES
- Click on Iowa Stories and notice the tagging framework on the left side of the screen.
- Click on any of the Iowa Stories to drill down to author, or era, themes, and chronology.
- Click on Bibliography and notice the tagging framework on the left side of the screen.
ABOUT US
- Click on Object Listing to use the tagging framework to drill down to objects of interest.