For teachers
Teaching Materials
This section helps teachers bring Islip's local history into the classroom. The materials use the project's primary sources, timeline, exhibit panels, and people pages to teach the American Revolution, local government, civic life, belonging, and historical thinking.
You do not need to be a local historian to use these. Every lesson and activity names the sources it draws on, links straight to them, and includes a short teacher note on what the evidence does and does not show.
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Lesson Plans
Five classroom-ready lessons, from settlement and local government to occupation, belonging, and the unfinished promise of independence.
Primary Source Activities
Seven short activities built on the town's own records, each with a real excerpt, plain context, vocabulary, and layered questions.
Exhibit Guide
A student-facing guide to the seven exhibit panels, with one question per panel and room to reflect on who was included and left out.
Timeline Activities
Five activities that use the full and child-friendly timelines together to practice historical thinking.
Printable Materials
Print-friendly versions of every resource, ready for the classroom. Downloadable PDF packets are in preparation.
Bilingual Classroom Materials
Every page here exists in English and Spanish, so the same lesson can reach more of Islip's families. Full Spanish lesson content is in preparation.
Themes across these materials
- The American Revolution
- Local government
- Civic participation
- Occupation
- Primary source analysis
- Race, status, and belonging
- Local identity
- The unfinished promise of independence