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Heroes – Resources for Teachers

Discover the impact of heroes past and present, with these lesson, activities, and printables. Honor veterans, civil-rights activists, suffragists, medical personnel, community workers, family members, and more. Find creative writing activities about the immigrant experience, historical time lines of the civil rights movement, slideshows of famous women suffragists, art activities for celebrating community helpers, lesson plans for learning more about wars and the soldiers who fight them, and much more.
War Heroes & Veterans
What Is Veterans Day?
The Story of Veterans Day
Veterans Day Newspaper
Memorial Day: Exercises
Origins of Veterans Day
U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor
History of the Draft
Memorial Day Word Fill-In
Veterans Day – Teacher Resources
Memorial Day Teacher Resources
More Resources on Veterans
Suffragists & Women's-Rights Heroes
Leaders in Women's Suffrage Movement
Leaders of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Women's Rights, Suffrage, & Equality
Favorite Women's History Month Activities Slideshow
Susan B. Anthony
Suffragettes
Daily Warm-Up 109 for Gr. 5 & 6: Historical Fiction
Daily Warm-Up 24 for Gr. 5 & 6: Biography
Daily Warm-Up 37 for Gr. 5 & 6: American History
The Roots of Women's Rights
More Resources on Women's Suffrage & Equality
Other Heroes of Women's History
Billie Holiday's Song "Strange Fruit"
The Declaration of Independence and Your Own Rights
The Keeping Quilt
Paper Quilts
Current Archaeology -- Student Assignment Sheet
Native American Matrilineal Society
The Miracle Worker
Jane Eyre Reading Guide
Women Nobel and Pulitzer Prize Winners
Designing a Quilt Pattern
More U.S. Women's History Resources
Civil-Rights Heroes
Martin Luther King Jr: Civil Rights Leader
Rosa Parks -- Coloring Page
Martin Luther King Jr Coloring Page
Conspiracy Theories Behind Martin Luther King's Assassination
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr. Crossword Puzzle
Answer Key for MLK Crossword Puzzle
Pictorial Timeline of Dr. Martin Luther King's Life
Know Your Rights
Women's History Month: Origins
More Popular Resources on Civil Rights
Other African-American Heroes
A Raisin in the Sun
Maniac Magee
Who's in the News Bulletin Board
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Write a Letter to Jesse Owens
American History Activities
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Indentured Servants' Experiences 1600-1700
African-American Gospel Music
Activities for African Folk Tales
More Black History Month Resources
Community Helpers
Community Helpers: Matching
Police and Firefighter Patterns
Firefighter Cut-Out Badge
Use Service-Learning to Enhance Your Curriculum
Kindergarten Community Project Ideas
Fire Department Word Search
Freddie the Firefighter
Our Helpful Neighbors
Community Helpers Writing Activity
I Want to Be a Firefighter
More Resources on Community Helpers
Doctors, Nurses, & EMTs
Nurse/EMT Hat
Doctor and Dentist Patterns
Doctor Faustus
WAACS, WAVES, and Nurses
Library-Nurse Pass
Waste Doctor
I Want to Be a Doctor
Nurse Pass (8 per sheet)
Next To: Who Is Next to the Firefighter?
Common Abbreviations
Teachers
Miss Nelson is Missing
Substitute Teacher Information
Parent/Teacher Relations
Educational Quotes
People Who Help Us Learn Bulletin Board
Top 10 End-of-the-Year Gifts for Teachers
Beginning Teacher Salaries, 2002-03 and 2003-04
Very Best Gifts for Teachers
If I Were the Teacher
Great Teacher
More Resources about Teachers
Moms
Your Family Tree
Mother's Day Printable Book (K-3)
My Family
Roses for Mom
Mother's Day Worksheet
Favorite Mother's Day Activities Slideshow
Mother's Day Plaque
Mother's Day Card
Mother's Day Writing Ideas
Cloth-Wax Design
More Mother's Day
Dads
Father's Day Presents
Make a Father's Day Card
Favorite Father's Day Activities Slideshow
A Father's Day Card
Woven Fish
Animal Fathers
Father's Day Crossword Puzzle
More Father's Day Resources
Other Resources about Heroes
An Autobiographical Poem
Jerry Spinelli on Milkweed
My Brother Sam Is Dead
We Beat the Street Discussion Guide
Activities to Honor Heroes
"Batman & Robin" Comics
Firefighter's Hat
The Story of the "Star-Spangled Banner"
My Brother Sam Is Dead Test A
The Miracle Worker: Synopsis, Ideas, and Writing Connections

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