Indiana History Resources for Teachers
Below is a list of resources for educators to use in the classroom including presentations from past workshops, articles and lesson plans.
Presentations from Teacher Workshops
• Indiana’s Underground Railroad
• The Underground Railroad in Madison, Indiana
• Stagecoaches & Inns on the Buffalo Trace
• Pioneer Plants & Cooking
• History of the Miami Indian Nation
• Indiana’s Natural Landscape Prior to Statehood
• Corydon Capitol State Historic Site
• Vincennes State Historic Site
• Southern Indiana and the Civil War
• Native Americans – Mann Site to Angel Mounds
• Forts of Southern Indiana
Early Transportation Maps
• Canals
• Early Transportation 1
• Early Transportation 2
• Early Transportation 3
• Lincoln Family Route
• Mississippi River Valley
• Physiographic Regions
• Railways: 1860
• Railways: 1880
• Railways: 1880 version 2
• Rivers
• Westward Movement
Articles
• Travel in Indiana Long Ago Part I
• Travel in Indiana Long Ago Part II
• Travel in Indiana Long Ago Part III
• The WPA Wagon
• Threshing on the Farm
• Morgan’s Raid in Jackson County
• The Old Grist Mill
• Women and Their Homes Part I
• Women of Their Homes Part II
• Lincoln in Spencer County
• Lincoln: What We Know
• Teacher Resources
Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities
Ethnic Background
• A Little Bit of French, Anyone?
• Conflict of Cultures: Indians & White Settlers
• Early French Inhabitants of Indiana: Our Lost Legacy
• Indian Pow Wow & Related Activities
• Indians
• Intentional German Communities in Indiana: Dubois & Spencer Counties
• Life at a French Fur Trading Post
• Native American Religious Beliefs
• The Amish in Indiana
• The French Connection
• The French in Indiana
Significant Events
• Cultures in Conflict: Indian Removal in Indiana
• Indiana and the Civil War: Bingo Review Activity
• The Civil War
• The Pigeon Roost Massacre
Important Locations
• A Visit to Indiana’s First State Capital
• Angel Site of Southwestern Indiana
• Corydon, Indiana, 1813-1825
• Historic Newburgh: A Local History Investigation
• Historic Southern Indiana: A Cooperative Learning Assignment
• Scott County History
• Teaching County History: Dubois County, Indiana
• The Staging of the Indiana Frontier
• The Wabash and Erie Canal
• Visiting George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
People of Interest
• Abe Lincoln: An Atypical Hoosier Adolescent in a Typical Pioneer Community
• Abraham Lincoln: The Early Indiana Years
• Alice Earl of Lafayette
• Francois Marie Bissot, Sieur De Vincennes, French Founder of Vincennes, Indiana
• George Rogers Clark
• Jonathan Jennings: Indiana’s First Governor
• Oliver P. Morton, Indiana’s Civil War Governor
• Pioneers
• The Shakers
• William Henry Harrison: The Acquisition of Indian Lands
Subjects of Note
• A Seating Arrangement Designed to Stimulate Interest in Indiana History
• Children and Money Management in the Mini-Economy
• Early Pioneer History, Local and New Harmony
• Foods of the Pioneer Family
• Frontier Medicine
• Grist Mills of Early America & Today
• How May the United States Be Divided into Regions?
• Indiana History Baseball
• Indiana Underground Railroad Folklore: Western Route & Daviess County
• Kids Involved with Indiana
• Lesson Plans to Accompany Major’s “The Bears of Blue River”
• Owenite Education in New Harmony
• Pioneer Day Activities
• Pioneer Period of Southern Indiana
• Reckonin’ the Rectangular Surveying System
• River Transportation
• Role Playing with Children
• Roman Catholic Schools in Indiana in the 19th Century
• The Daily Life of Pioneers in Indiana
• Using Projects to Teach Indiana History
• Using Time Lines
• Utopia on the Wabash: The Harmonie Society
• Values in Time: Spring Mill Folklore
• People of the Forest Coloring Book
• Pioneer Westward Expansion Part 1
• Pioneer Westward Expansion Part 2
• The King’s M&M’s Part 1
• The King’s M&M’s Part 2
• Underground Railroad Activity
• Indiana History Classroom Ideas from 2013 Teacher Panel
• Indiana’s Historic Pathways Coloring & Activity Book
