How can I get my students even more engaged during our trip to Gettysburg?
Gettysburg is the perfect place to explore American, Pennsylvanian, and military history.
Many of the sites that you will visit in Gettysburg have developed lesson plans to begin engagement in the classroom. Provide a deeper appreciation for the places you will visit by exploring a focus topic prior to the trip.
See a sample Gettysburg with DC itinerary.
See a sample Gettysburg with Philadelphia itinerary.
Gettysburg Lesson Plans
- Gettysburg National Military Park
- Join the Army: The Life of a Civil War Soldier
- Slyder Family Farm: Before, During, and After the Battle
- Artillery & Teamwork: The 9th Massachusetts Battery
- Field Hospital: Caring for the Wounded
- Fallen Soldiers: The Soldiers’ National Cemetery and the Gettysburg Address
- Pickett’s Charge: A Critical Look
- The Round Tops
- The Eisenhower Foundation
- Dogs for Defense: Hero Hounds
- Dogs for Defense: K-9 Corps
- Rosie the Riveter
- Attic Artifacts: WWII Kids
- Cold War Kids: Duck & Cover
- Victory Gardens
- Hello Heroes
- Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without
- The Holocaust: From a Name to a Number
- Attic Artifacts: Women on the Home Front
- Paint Like Ike
- Spy Kids: Code Talkers
- Cold War Kids: Space Race
- Wild West to Midwest
- Recommending Eisenhower
- Letters to the President
- Eisenhower and the Troops: The Story of a Photograph
- Desegregating Little Rock
- Eisenhower and the Responsibility of the President
- Two Farewells: Comparing the Farewell Addresses of Washington and Eisenhower