US History Gallery Walk Activity Bundle

This bundle of US history gallery walk lesson plans is sure to get your students moving around the room and engaging in the visual analysis of history with primary sources. Teachers will find this collection of ten lesson plans spanning from the Gilded Age to the Vietnam War ready to implement in the classroom and student friendly.

Each lesson plan included in the bundle features: (1) teacher lesson plan; (2) pre-gallery walk warm-up activity; (3) 15+ historical photographs designed as placards for room placement; (4) student data retrieval chart for recording evidence; (5) exit ticket activity incorporating creative writing for reflection on photographs (+ rubric); and (6) teacher questions to support critical thinking about photographs.

This bundle includes the following lessons:

• Examining Labor & Working Conditions in the Gilded Age: A Gallery Walk Exercise
• Realities of War: A World War I Gallery Walk Exercise
• The Spanish Flu and Daily Life: A Gallery Walk Exercise
• Life and Culture in the Roaring Twenties: A 1920s Gallery Walk Exercise
• Life During the Dust Bowl: A Gallery Walk Exercise
• Storming the Beaches of Normandy! A D-Day Gallery Walk
• American Home Front and World War II Propaganda Gallery Walk
• Confronting Prejudice: A Jim Crow Gallery Walk
• Visualizing the "Forgotten War:" A Korean War Gallery Walk Exercise
• Through the Eyes of a "Grunt:" A Vietnam War Gallery Walk Exercise