Lesson Plans & Activities

Pre-Visit Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities

The lessons below have been designed to prepare your students for their museum visit. However, lessons can be done on their own as an introduction to local history and to working with historical documents and images.

Lessons to prepare for a General Visit:

Essential Seattle Curriculum Materials (PDF)
Essential Seattle Slide Show (PPT - Save & Download)
Essential Seattle Slide Show Script and Activities (PDF)

Lessons to prepare for a Guided Program:

K - 2nd: Discovering Seattle Stories (PDF)
3rd - 5th: Cracking the History Code (PDF)
6th - 12th: History: Fact vs. Fiction

Lessons to accompany The Enemy Within:
Terror in America 1776 to Today:

Enemy Within Curriculum (PDF)

Northwest Challenges and Choices:
Civil War in the Pacific Northwest:

Curriculum (PDF)
Primary Resources (PDF)