Teaching Cleveland offers three free lesson plans.

Upheaval in the Civil Rights Movement: Cleveland’s Hough Neighborhood

High school lesson plan in which students explore the factors that led to the Hough uprising, the events of the uprising, and the community responses.

WPA in Cleveland: Art of the New Deal

A middle and high school lesson plan in which students examine the Works Progress Administration in Cleveland during the Great Depression and the art it produced.

John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company

An 8th grade lesson plan in which students learn about John D. Rockefeller, his founding of Standard Oil, and the impact the company had on the Cleveland and national economy.

Teaching Cleveland additional lesson plans, including:

Civil Defense in the 1950s
Cleveland’s Garment Industry
Cleveland’s Immigration History
Cleveland in the Civil War
Geometry and Cleveland Buildings
Langston Hughes in Cleveland
Civil Rights in Cleveland
Cleveland in the Great Depression
Cleveland Mayors
Cleveland’s Settlement Houses
Desegregation in Cleveland
History of Philanthropy in Cleveland
Industrialization in Cleveland
Progressivism in Cleveland

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