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Resources for Teachers

There are two ways to use this site:

1. Click on a topic from the map below. You will find:
   • Concise background information on the topic along with relevant links and references for books at the district library that you can use.
   • Different activities to do in class with that topic. These activities are flexible and can involve students using the SOS website. You can also print off the documents/teaching tools about Ypsilanti history needed for the activities and use them without the computer.
   • Ideas for field trips, guest speakers, or just places in Ypsilanti that would be fun to visit.
   • Connections to chapters/themes in the textbook, as well as connections to the State Mandates for Social Studies for the Third Grade.
2. See the menu at the left and click on Textbook Connections.
   • This will take you to a table of contents to the Third Grade Social Studies textbook, Share Our World.
   • Click on the chapter you want to connect to Ypsilanti history, and this will link you to the activities as described above.

Under Introduction to History and Skill Development, you will find activities that use documents from Ypsilanti history to teach "What is a Community?" and "What is History?," which are central themes in the Students on Site activities.

Also, you will find activities that can help introduce how to use timelines and maps, which the lessons will use. There are ideas on long term projects like a journal, or classroom projects such as a drama or class bulletin board using what they learned about Ypsilanti history over the course of the topical lessons.

The introductory activities or topic-based lessons are designed to supplement or replace those in the textbook.

Demetrius Ypsilanti | Having Fun | Industry | Native Americans | Schools
Settlement | Transportation | Underground Railroad | Willow Run