Do you know somewhere that could be the basis of a good lesson plan? A place that embodies America's history, either as the site of a regionally-important event or one that shows how national issues affected local developments? Consider writing a lesson plan for inclusion in the Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) series.

The following lesson plans are among the many that have been submitted to TwHP by volunteers across the U.S. and posted on the Web as part of the TwHP series. Many more authors are busy completing their lessons.

• Back Stairs at Brucemore: Life as Servants in early 20th-Century America
• The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Shattered Dream
• The Freeman School: Building Prairie Communities
• New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School: From Freedom of Choice to Integration
• These Honored Dead: The Battle of Rivers Bridge and Civil War Combat Casualties
• Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike

Teaching with Historic Places has developed an online Author's Packet to help you write a lesson plan using a format designed by a leading history educator. Every community has places that can help bring history, geography, civics, and other subjects alive for students of all ages, and the Author's Packet will help you create materials to convey the meaning and importance of these places to students from upper elementary to high school.

The TwHP staff would be interested in receiving a copy of any lesson plans you develop based on a National Register property and using the TwHP format. If your lesson plan is accepted, our staff will provide guidance as you revise the draft to meet TwHP standards; arrange for it to be reviewed by experts in education, history, and/or related disciplines; and finalize your lesson for inclusion in the online national series.

The Author's Packet includes:

• an introduction to creating a TwHP lesson plan;
• information on the National Register Collection which can assist you in determining what properties are listed in the National Register in your area and across the country;
• two issues of the National Park Service publication CRM, "Teaching with Historic Places" and "Creative Teaching with Historic Places";
• descriptions and an index of TwHP lesson plans, which can be printed from the Web and used as models;
• "A Guide for Developing Lesson Plans," which provides instructions about the TwHP format;
• "Some Sources of Evidence," which provides suggestions for finding information and documents about places;
• information on a TwHP publication that describes in more detail the program's methods for using places effectively in education:
  A Curriculum Framework.

Please contact us for further information.