We’ve been teaching with our own podcasts since, well, we started podcasting! Since part of our mission is to create this podcast as an open-access teaching resource, our goal is to build up a real library of sources to help make our podcasts useful to educators. We’ve been sharing some of the general ways we podcasts in the classroom on our Podcasts + page. Here you’ll find more detailed lesson plans, including those ideal for high school or college World, American, and European history classes. At the bottom of this page, and at the side of every page, you’ll also see the “tag cloud” that we created to help you find episodes by topic, time period, and region. If there’s a specific tag you’d like to see pop up, send us an email at hello [at] digpodcast [dot] org!
Lesson Plans:
World History
Lesson Plan: Malintzin, translator and intermediary for Cortés and indigenous South American populations
Lesson Plan: Cabeza de Vaca stumbles through the Southwest
Lesson Plan: Victorian Imperialism and Travel of the African Continent
U.S. History
Lesson Plan: Abolition in the United States, A Debate
Lesson Plan: Racial Violence and Lynching in the U.S.
Lesson Plan: Aunt Jemima and Everyday Racism
Lesson Plan: Labor and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Lesson Plan: Rosa Parks, Myth and Memory in the Civil Rights Movement
Lesson Plan: Tituba: The “Black Witch” of Salem
Lesson Plan: The War of 1812 & the Burning of Buffalo
Lesson Plan: Race, Politics, and Chaos in the Capitol: The Election of 1876
Lesson Plan: Race in 1920s America: Hellfighters, Red Summer, and Restrictive Immigration