For Educators

Teachers and Educators, on this page you will find lesson plans about the life and death of President Abraham Lincoln. There are also various links to pages that may prove useful for further study in your classroom.

Also, consider attending the annual Civil War Institute from June 27-July 3, 2010. The topic will be "The Election of 1860".  The Institute will include talks by historians Michael Burlingame, Allen Guelzo, Matthew Pinsker, Michael Holt, Craig Symonds.  Also, former United States Senator George McGovern will speak about his new book on Abraham Lincoln, which is a part of the American Presidents series.  The Institute is a PA Act 48 Continuing Professional Education Provider through the Division of Professional Development, Bureau of Teaching and Learning Support.

Below are links to Lincoln lesson plans from the 2008 "Lincoln" Seminar, held at Gettysburg College and sponsored by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History.

Additional lesson plans can be found at the Abraham Lincoln Association.

LESSON PLANS BY CATEGORY

 Lincoln's Assassination

The Election of 1860 and the Causes of War

Lincoln's Speeches

The Draft

The Lives of Soldiers and Civilians

The Election of 1864

The War Effort

General Lesson Plans

Additional lesson plans can be found at www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/modules.html, which contains twenty-four modules on American History, including three on the Civil War era, or at www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org/edmaterials.asp, which contains several lesson plans produced by the Abraham Lincoln Association.

More lesson plans can be found at Lincoln Archive, which is endorsed by the National Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Links

Abraham Lincoln Association - homepage includes classroom materials links and link to Lincoln Daily Log

Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum - Located at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN. Includes a list of repository guides to the LMU Lincoln Collection under Research Collection.

Abraham Lincoln Online - Vast resource links to speeches, student resources, field trip ideas, museums, historical sites, Lincoln images, and much more

Abraham Lincoln Research Site- Online since 1996, this site is educational in nature and is intended for schools, parents, students, and anyone with an interest in our 16th president.

Beyond the Log Cabin - Lesson plans about Lincoln's life from the Kentucky Historical Society Foundation. Includes quizzes and fill-in-the-blank work sheets for younger students.

Collected Works of Lincoln - Searchable by simple and Boolean searches with unique word index

Gettysburg Address - American Rhetoric's online speech bank; audio files of the Gettysburg Address by Sam Waterson, Jeff Daniels, Johnny Cash, and Jim Getty

Grace Bedell and Abraham Lincoln - The story of the girl who advised Lincoln to grow his famous beard.

History Channel - Links on Lincoln, including hyperlinks to key figures such as Mary Todd Lincoln, the Kansas-Nebraska act, Civil War, Springfield, and more

HistoryNow - Includes images, lesson plans, weblinks and more in this quarterly newsletter from Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg - The recollections of Sarah A. Myers, who met Abraham Lincoln before giving the Gettysburg Address.