The instructional material offered on TeachVIHistory.com are called “activities”. They center around encouraging the use of primary sources to explore, discover and investigate US Virgin Islands history, and helping students develop research skills. Each activity includes primary source(s), a brief historical background, suggested teaching instructions, an analysis worksheet, and discussion points. Some activities include extension projects. Teachers may use the activities in their entirety or pick primary sources and associated discussion points that best suit their lesson plans. Are you ready to start exploring US Virgin Islands history using primary sources? Choose a grade level to get started.
Activities by Grade Level
Lower Elementary
Engage students by exploring cultural objects, games, chores from the past, modes of transportation, Amerindian tools, and more.
Upper Elementary
Learn about Amerindian culture, story telling traditions, sale of the DWI, campaigning & voting, censuses, historical figures, and more.
Junior High School
Question the past using documents, ship records, maps, newspapers, runaway notices, letter about the slave revolt, and more.
High School
Interpret and discuss history through records, poetry, treaties, judgements for suffrage, paintings of plantations, manumissions, and more.
