Materials for Teachers
New Jersey History Kids
An interactive, multimedia website for students in grades K-4, incorporating the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards.
New Jersey History Kids website
Electronic New Jersey
Beginning in February 2011, the former Electronic New Jersey website is now the centerpiece of the New Jersey Digital Highway's Educators Portal. Containing 23 curriculum units about New Jersey history and its relationship to major themes in U. S. And global history, Electronic New Jersey provides students and teachers with access to content, instructional activities and assessments using source materials drawn primarily from the Rutgers University special collections and university archives, along with other new jersey repositories and containing links to selected high quality online learning sites, such as the national archives and the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
Electronic New Jersey
Around and About New Jersey
These teachers guides were produced in connection with the Around and About New Jersey television series, eight, fifteen minutes programs, intended for elementary school students. However, they can be used independently from the television programs. Each guide contains a summary of the topic, suggested lessons and activities, primary source documents, maps, and illustrations.
To view the Guides
New Jersey Legacy
The following teacher's guides were produced in connection with the New Jersey Legacy televisions series, which traces the history of New Jersey from 1609 to the present. However, they can be used independently from the television programs. The guides are intended for middle and high school students. Each guide contains a summary of the topic, suggested lessons and activities, primary source documents, maps, and illustrations.
New Jersey Legacy Teacher's Guides.
New Jersey History Partnership Project
The following interactive, multimedia website was produced by the New Jersey History Partnership Project, a collaboration of the Montville Township School District, Kean University, and the New Jersey Historical Commission. Funded by a Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education, it is intended for middle and high school students. The website contains topic summaries, suggested lessons and activies, bibliographies, primary source documents, maps, and illustrations on three units: the American Revolution, the Market Revolution, and the Progressive Era.
New Jersey History Partnership Project
A Topical Guide to Materials for Teaching New Jersey History
The following guide begins with an brief essay by David Steven Cohen on Why Teach New Jersey History. The guide itself is divided into two parts. Part I is organized by topics and includes materials suitable for use in kindergarten through fourth grade. Part II is organized chronologically and by topic. Each topic is subdivided into two sections: (a) materials suitable for use in grades 5 though 8 and (b) materials suitable for use in grades 9 through 12.
Topical Guide
New Jersey History Syllabus repository
History of New Jersey - Brookdale Community College
History of New Jersey - Seton Hall University
New Jersey from the Civil War to the Present - Drew University
New Jersey History course at Fairleigh Dickinson University
