• When Glaciers Covered Michigan - Lesson Plan

• Michigan History on a String - Lesson Plan

• Where Did Michigan's First People Live? - Lesson Plan

• Canoe Routes of Native Americans in Michigan - Lesson Plan

• Who Came from Europe? - Lesson Plan

• Barter and Trade - Lesson Plan

• Tour the First People Gallery Online

• Then and Now - Lesson Plan

• Packing the Wagon - Lesson Plan

• The Toledo War - Lesson Plan

• The Toledo War Song - Background Reading

• Important Dates in Michigan's Quest for Statehood - Background Reading

• The Plank Road Craze - Background Reading

• Stevens Thomson Mason - Background Reading

• The Brady Guard Flag - Background Reading

• The Plank Road Law - a Document

• Settling a State Lesson Ideas

• Tour the Settling a State Gallery Online

• A Civil War Flag Returns Home

• Child of the Underground Railroad: Lesson Plan for "Malinda Paris - A Memorial"

• Malinda Paris: A Memorial - Background Reading

• Did Civil War Soldiers Come from Your Community? - Lesson Plan

• The Drummer Boy - A Poetry Lesson Plan

• "The Dead Drummer Boy"

• "The Hero of the Drum"

• Michigan's African American Quilters - Background Reading

• Fannie Richards and the Integration of the Detroit Public Schools - Background Reading

• A Michigan Civil War Physician's Diary - Primary Source

• Letters by Alphonso Crane, a Civil War Soldier, and General Ulysses S. Grant - Primary Sources

• Lesson Ideas for the Civil War Gallery

• Tour the Civil War Gallery Online

• How We Use Copper and Iron - Lesson Plan

• Mining Money - Lesson Plan

• What Is a Kibble? A Word Search Lesson Plan

• Jobs, Hours and Pay in Michigan Underground Copper Mines in 1924

• The Iron Riches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - Background Reading

• Tour the Mining in Michigan Gallery Online

• Visit the Michigan Iron Industry Museum

• A Shanty Boy's Meal - Lesson Plan

• Log Marks Activity - Lesson Plan

• Lumbering in Michigan - Background Reading

• Tour the Lumbering in Michigan Gallery Online

• Visit Hartwick Pines Logging Museum

• One-Room School Lessons - Lesson Plan

• Tour the Growing Up in Michigan Gallery Online

• Growing Corn - Lesson Plan

• Plan a Classroom Fair - Lesson Plan

• The "Wish Book" - Lesson Plan

• Excerpt from Charles Estep's Farm Diary, August 1884 - Primary Source

• A Brief History of Michigan's State Fair - Background Reading

• Map of Hudson Township, 1874 - Primary Source

• Growing Up on a Michigan Farm in the 1890s - Background Reading

• The Festival of Industry or, The County Fair by Will Carlton - a Poem

• Lesson Ideas for the Rural Michigan Gallery

• Tour the Rural Michigan Gallery Online

• Michigan, A Manufacturer - Lesson Plan

• Michigan Rides the Rails - Lesson Plan

• Carriages Come Before Cars - Lesson Plan

• Governor Baldwin Announces New Capitol - Background Reading

• Tour the Growth of Manufacturing Gallery Online

• Petticoat Farmer: The Saga of Sarah Van Hoosen Jones - Background Reading

• Berrien County's Great Peach Boom - Background Reading

• Mint in Michigan - Background Reading

• Sweet Success . . . The Story of Michigan's Beet Sugar Industry, 1898 - 1974 - Background Reading

• Tour the Farm Gallery Online

• Henry Ford: The Innovator - Background Reading

• The Assembly Line and the $5 Day - Background Reading

• Tour the Factory Gallery Online

• Tour the 1920s Gallery Online

• What Was Life Like During the Great Depression? - Lesson Plan

• Bungalow Floor Plans - Lesson Plan

• "I Remember . . ." - Reminiscences of the Great Depression

• Roosevelt's Tree Army. Michigan's Civilian Conservation Corps

• Lesson Ideas for the Great Depression

• Tour the Great Depression Gallery Online

• Kids on the Home Front: Michigan Time Traveler/Lansing State Journal Newspapers in Education topic with Teacher's Guide 

• Tour the Arsenal of Democracy Gallery Online

• My Dream Car - Lesson Plan

• A 1950s Kind of Day - Lesson Plan

• Propaganda: Name-calling - Lesson Plan

• The Mackinac Bridge - Background Reading

• The Michigan Communist Control Law - A Document

• Michigan's Liberty Bell

• Lesson Ideas for the 1950s Gallery

• Tour the 1950s Gallery Online

• Study Michigan's Fair Housing Act of 1968 - Lesson Plan

• Michigan's Fair Housing Act of 1968 - A Document

• Make a 1960s Album Cover - Lesson Plan

• Were My Dreams Realized? - Lesson Plan

• Lesson Ideas for the 1960s Gallery

• Tour the 1960s Gallery Online

• Paddle-down-the-River - Lesson Plan

• Tour the Lakes and Land Gallery Online

• A curriculum guide, time line, posters and links help you teach about Michigan's radio and TV broadcasting history in your communications curriculum.