Education Resources
Arkansas History Lesson Plans
The Arkansas History Lesson Plans were written by Arkansas teachers for Arkansas teachers. These may be downloaded and used in Arkansas classrooms free of charge. Many of our lesson plans contain information related to entries found on the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. Links to these entries have been added to the appropriate lesson plans for your convenience. View the lesson plans »
BASE (Books for Arkansas Students' Education)
BASE, Books for Arkansas Students' Education, is an innovative program to provide free books about Arkansas's natural, cultural, and political history to public high schools across the state. Go to the BASE website »
February is Black History Month
The Black History Month teaching guides below provide links and bibliographic references to assist Arkansas teachers in utilizing online resources for lessons in Black History.
- African American Schools in Arkansas
- Famous Black Arkansans
- Black Migration
- Joycelyn Elders
- Bass Reeves
March is Women's History Month
The Women's History Month teaching guides below provide links and bibliographic references to assist Arkansas teachers in utilizing online resources for lessons in Women's History.
- Women's History Month
- Strength in Numbers: Selected Women's Groups in Arkansas History
- Women and the Sciences: Arkansas Women in a Male-dominated Field
- Women History Makers of Arkansas: An Encyclopedia of Arkansas Scavenger Hunt
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a free, authoritative source of information about the rich history, geography, and culture of Arkansas. We invite you to browse our text entries and media galleries to learn more about the people, places, events, legends, and lore of the 25th state. We are continually adding new entries, photographs, maps, videos, and audio files, so check back frequently to see what's new. Go to the Encylopedia of Arkansas website »
Resource Correlations for Arkansas Teachers
Correlations from ADE-approved Arkansas history textbooks to the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas text/media entries and to the online digital collections, including lesson plans and oral history interview clips, are available. Also, correlations to lesson plans for the two middle-level ADE-approved textbooks, Bandits, Bears, and Backaches: A Collection of Short Stories on Arkansas History and Race Relations in the Natural State, are available.
- Grades K - 12: Annotated Bibliography Arkansas History Online Resources Available from ADE Curriculum Resources
- Grades K - 12: Correlations from ADE Arkansas History Lesson Plans to EOA Entries
- Grades K - 12: English Language Proficiency Frameworks Correlation to English Language Arts and Mathematics Frameworks Utilized in Online Butler Center Arkansas History Lesson Plans
- Grades K - 5: Correlations to Butler Center Resources for Arkansas Related Children's Books By Michael Shoulders
- Grade 4: Correlations to FREE Online Materials for Houghton Mifflin Arkansas History Textbook
- Grade 4: Harcourt Social Studies Textbook: Time, People, Place, AR Connections Teacher's Guide
- Grade 5: Harcourt Social Studies Textbook: Time, People, Place, AR Connections Teacher's Guide
- Grades 5 - 8: Bandits, Bears, and Backaches, ADE Approved Textbook Available from Butler Center Books
- Grades 7 - 8: Race Relations in the Natural State, ADE Approved Textbook Available from Butler Center Books
- Grades 7 - 12: Correlations from Hot Springs National Park Arkansas History Lesson Plans to EOA Entries
- Grade 8: Correlations for Arkansas Journey Textbook to Butler Center Lesson Plans And Encyclopedia of Arkansas History Text and Media Entries
- Grade 8: Correlations for Arkansas History for Young People Textbook to Butler Center Lesson Plans and Encyclopedia of Arkansas History Text and Media Entries
Educators are encouraged to save the resource correlation documents to their desktop computers or to their professional storage devices. The "links" to the correlations are "live" from electronic versions of the documents.