Curriculum Kits and Guides

Brooklyn History Curriculum Kits

Brooklyn History Curriculum Guides

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Brooklyn History Curriculum Kits

All BHS curriculum kits are chock full of fabulous resources for teaching in your classroom. The kits are written by a team of curriculum writers, with assistance from historians, and vetted by classroom teachers. You will not want to miss the opportunities provided by these kits. Each one includes innovative lesson plans drawing on primary sources, a detailed teacher’s guide, laminated images, and in-class activities for you and your students to use year after year. All kits are $99 (including shipping).

To purchase a curriculum kit, call our Education Coordinator at 718.222.4111 ext. 228 or email education@brooklynhistory.org.

NEW! Brooklyn Navy Yard: Past, Present, Future (Grades 6–12)

From prison ships to green technologies, history is always happening at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Students use primary source documents and images to connect the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as well as local institutions and events, with larger themes in American history, including industrialization, urbanization, civil rights, gender equity, economics, and environmentalism/sustainability.

Picture This! Kit: Brooklyn at Work (Grades 2–6)

Through primary source investigation, students will learn about work and workers in Brooklyn since 1900 and how changes in these jobs over time reflect larger themes in American history. Follow the transformation of Brooklyn from the Industrial Revolution through the twentieth century and investigate the impact of waves of new immigrants. Learn how labor, wages, and working conditions continue to change over time.

History Hunters Kit: Seeking the Industrial Age (Grades 7–11)

Turn your classroom into a walking tour company for the Greenpoint neighborhood. Use Greenpoint as a “learning laboratory” to investigate themes of industrialization, immigration, urbanization, and economics using maps, photos, newspaper articles, and other source materials focusing on sites in Greenpoint. Students create site-specific tour scripts about housing innovations at Astral Apartments, the history of the American Manufacturing Company’s rope-making facilities on the Greenpoint waterfront and much more!

COMING SOON! Bats, Balls, Nets, and Hoops: Stories of Sports in Brooklyn (Grades 4–12)

The history of sports in Brooklyn provides a marvelous gateway to understanding crucial issues such as immigration, civil rights, urbanization, marketing, and changing gender roles. Using photographs, documents and first-person narratives, you can build upon students’ fascination with sports to encourage their interest in history. Read more about Balls, Bats, Nets, and Hoops.

Brooklyn History Curriculum Guides

Want to know more about Abolitionism?  Baseball in Brooklyn? Transportation and Technology? Introduce your students to exciting topics in Social Studies with these curriculum guides: 

Brooklyn’s African American Communities and Emancipation, 1799–1863 (Grades 7–12, 10 page fold-out) Free! Available for pick up at BHS 

A Kid’s Guide to Baseball in Brooklyn (Grades 4–12, 36 pages) $15.00

Gateway to the City: Teacher-Created Lessons Connecting New York City History to National Themes (Grades 3–12, 44 pages) $8.95

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