The East Tennessee Historical Society offers a variety of resources for teachers. They include lesson plans as well as links to helpful information. We also offer wonderful children's titles through the ETHS Museum Shop. Explore our teaching resources below.

NEW!  Civil Rights Lesson Plans

Click here to download the newest volume of "Teaching Tennessee History:  Lesson Plans for the Classroom, Volume IX."  These lesson plans were compiled by participants from the 2008 teachers history institute "Freedom Spirit:  Tennessee and the Civil Rights Movement."

Industrialization Lesson Plans
Click here to download the volume of "Teaching Tennessee History:  Lesson Plans for the Classroom, Volume VIII." which was compiled by teacher participants from the 2007 Teachers Institute "Voices of Progress:  Industrialization in Tennessee."    learn more...

Appalachia Lesson Plans
Click here to download the 2003 "Teaching Appalachia: Image and Reality of Appalachian Culture" Teachers History Institute Lesson Plans which have been published in "Teaching Tennessee History Volume IV."      learn more...

Tennessee Presidents Lesson Plans
These plans were developed by participants of the 2005 Teachers History Institute "From Tennessee to the White House: The Journeys of Jackson, Polk, and Johnson."   To download a copy, please click here.  learn more...

Family and Local History Lesson Plans
The 2006 "Making History Personal:  Local and Family History in the Classroom" Teachers History Institute Lesson Plans have been published in "Teaching Tennessee History Volume VII." Please click here to download a copy.

Civil War Lesson Plans
The 2001 "War Within A War: The Hidden Stories of the Civil War's Impact on Tennessee" Teachers History Institute Lesson Plans have been published in "Teaching Tennessee History, Volume II."  Please click here to download a copy.    learn more...

Tennessee Frontier and the Cherokee Lesson Plans
These plans were developed by participants of the 2004 Teachers History Institute "Cultures in Conflict:  The Revolutionary Era on the Cherokee Frontier."  Please click here to download a copy.   learn more...

New Deal and World War II Lesson Plans
To download a PDF file of the 2002 "Facing Change: The New Deal and World War II in East Tennessee" Teachers History Institute lesson plans, as published in "Teaching Tennessee History Volume III," click here.  Please click here to download a copy.  learn more...

The East Tennessee Historical Society is a project partner in the Teaching American History Grant: Tennessee River Valley Consortium (TRVC). TRVC includes school districts in Blount, Bradley, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, and Polk counties.  Click here to go to the project website, www.teachamericanhistory.org, which is packed with curriculum resources.