The East Tennessee Historical Society is proud to partner with Humanities Tennesssee to present teacher workshops throughout the state. The lesson activities below have been featured in a number of ETHS/Humanities Tennessee Workshops.  For more information on upcoming workshops, please vist eastthhistory.org   

Educational Programs at East Tennessee Historical Society Padlet

Museum from Home Online Resources Padlet

Suffrage Padlet

Bellringer

I Have, Who Has? Famous Tennesseans

Teaching with Artifacts

Teaching with Artifacts Lesson Activities

Reading Objects Student Worksheet     

Frontier and American Revolution      

Frontier Figures Bellringer 2019

5th grade Early Tennessee and Western Expansion Worksheet

5th grade Early Tennessee Answers

5th Grade Tennessee Timeline: Early Years through Statehood

5th Grade Places Map

The Cherokee and British on the Tennessee Frontier Lesson Plan

• Primary Source Set 1:  Deer Trade
• Primary Source  Set 2: Attakullakulla
• Primary Source Set 3: Cultural Misunderstandings
• Primary Source Set 4:  Fort Loudoun

Watauga Purchase Lesson Activity

Rally the Troops: Samuel Doak, Sycamore Shoals and the Battle of King's Mountain Lesson Plan

Gathering at Sycamore Shoals Image

Sectionalism, Reform Movements and the Civil War

5th Grade Tennessee 1796-1848 Statehood to Texas Revolution Presentation

A Quilt for Queen Victoria: Emancipation and Colonization in Tennessee Lesson Plan

The Underground Railroad using Unspoken Lesson Plan

Secession and Union in Tennessee Lesson Plan

Secession Lesson Activities

Progressive Era

Child Labor and Industrialization Lesson Activities

Harry Burn and Tennessee's Perfect 36 Presentation

Great Depression

The Great Depression in the South Lesson Plan