This lesson plan addresses the Essential Question: What are ways that people memorialized the 9/11 attacks? It addressing a difficult topic like 9/11 and memorialization of historical events for elementary aged students.

This activity will help students understand that people’s perceptions of the world—places, regions, and environments—are constantly changing with new experiences and information. Students will examine Census Bureau data about Los Angeles, and about the rest of California and the United States, to challenge or confirm these perceptions.

Students will use a U.S. Census Bureau data tool called State Facts for Students to analyze the population data of their state. They will write the data in several forms, round the numbers, and then compare their state’s population with that of a nearby state.

This is a teacher-created gallery walk on the prehistoric Native American groups in Utah.

Teacher-created resource to go with the Prehistoric Indians Gallery Walk resource. This resource is the graphic organizer that students will filll out.

Students can use this simple tool to examine and analyze any kind of primary source and record their responses. Students can download and fill in this PDF, then save, print, e-mail, or upload it, or they can print it and fill it in by hand.

This resource is from the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. It has different primary source sets that can be used in multiple standards.

This is a teacher created reading about reservoirs in Utah. It could be used as an informational text or it is set up as a fluency reading.

Students will participate in an online scavenger hunt based on a story that a geographer named Gina, who loves to travel, has escaped to an undisclosed location. It is their mission to bring her back to the school. Students must follow a series of clues about the location including landmarks, weather, and population—and use a U.S. Census Bureau data tool called State Facts for Students to answer questions that lead them one step closer to finding Gina.

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)

This teacher's guide will help you guide students through using the Primary Source Analysis Tool using sample questions as they respond to the primary source. (Intended for use with the "Primary Source Analysis Tool" downloadable doc, also found on the Library of Congress teacher website and in eMedia.)