DLO Teacher Resources

This site has been created to support teachers by providing DBQ-based lesson plans for exciting, interactive, presentation-based lessons in key curriculum areas. These lesson plans are designed to be used in conjunction with Greenwood Publishing’s award-winning social studies reference source, Daily Life through History. Even if your institution does not yet subscribe, please feel free to explore the Teacher Resources site.

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LESSON PLANS

Written by a variety of curricula and teaching experts, each lesson plan consists of two pages, one for the teacher and one for the student.

Teacher pages
These contain background information, an outline of the task, suggested pacing, list of materials, and links to required organizational charts and assessment rubrics. They also contain suggestions for extending the task beyond the lesson itself, for example by providing possible topics for expository writing. Teacher pages link directly to student pages, and vice versa, but no “answers’ are provided anywhere on the site. Teachers may print out and photocopy any of the pages for distribution within the classroom.

Student pages
These contain contextual information for the relevant document, an overview of the task, suggestions for further research, and details of how to present the results. They also include a link to the relevant graphic organizer to help students present their results, such as charts, time-lines, Venn Diagrams, Compare and Contrast charts, maps, flow diagrams and more.