Students, teachers and other educators are a primary audience of New York Heritage. New York Heritage offers access to thousands of unique primary source materials that can enhance any lesson in the history of New York State and inherently support the Common Core standards.

Click here for a cheat sheet about for developing lessons for K-5 using historical records.

Lesson Plans:

To make it easier to incorporate New York Heritage materials into your curriculum, we offer a variety of lesson plans and activity ideas:

• 19th C. Monographs of Western NY
       Timeline, Travel Brochure, Presentation
• Civilian Conservation Corps at Green Lakes State Park
       Visual display, Handout
• Family Photos
       Elementary, Comparisons
• Hardy Family
       Industrial growth, Culture, Urbanization
• Love Canal Images
       Meeting Simulation, Slide Show
• Nickell Collection of Dr. R.V. Pierce Medical Artifacts
       Public Policy analysis, Research, Videos, Mental Health, Disabilities
• Onondaga Nation Culture
       Native Americans, Presentation
• Solar Salt
       Science Activity, Industry
• War of 1812
       Perspectives, Star Spangled Banner
• What do you mean: How language changes over time
       Language, Literacy, Discussion
• What we need and what we want: Then and Now
       Pioneers, Visual Timeline, Reading, Searching

Other Digital Resources:

You may also find these other digital resources helpful.

• The Digital Collections: A Gateway to the Collections Held by the NYS Archives, Museum, and Library
• Cornell University Library Digital Collection
• The New York Public Library Digital Collections
• Winning the Vote
• The Missing Chapter: Untold Stories of the African American Presence in the Hudson Valley