Native Americans & Columbus

At AntiTextbook.org, we have curated the best active learning lesson plans for American History Teachers.  We have sifted through the resources on amazing free sites like Stanford History Education Group (S.H.E.G.), Gilder Lehrman, and Facing History and Ourselves.  We’ve picked the best activities and given you a brief description.  You could skim through these sites yourself and read each of the 15-page activity descriptions.  Or you can let us do the work of searching and synthesizing for you.

Each box below contains a lesson. The icons under each image tell you if the lesson contains primary sources, secondary sources, research, group work, a writing assignment, videos, or games. The description tells you which free site the lesson comes from, what grade levels it is intended for, how much class time it will take, and how much reading is required. We've added a word or two about the remote-readiness of each lesson.  Click the orange button at the bottom of each box for more information on the lesson.

Lessons on this page are about British Colonies in America.  We have divided the Activities into 2 categories:

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• Native Americans

• Columbus and Contact