Lesson Plans
My Newark Story Curriculum
Book List
Activities
Traveling Exhibits
Online Materials from NPL
- The Columbian Exchange (Grade 3-5)
- The Great Migration: Journey to the North and This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration (Grade 1-4)
- I’m New Here (Grade 1-4)
- A Look Back at Newark Schools (High School)
- Historic Preservation and Community Research (High School)
- Levels of Government (Grade 3-5) | accompanying activities
- Mixed Me (Grade 1-4)
- My Dog is Lost (Grade 1-4)
- My Name is Sangoel (Grade 1-4)
- My Shoes and I (Grade 1-4)
- Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote (Grade 1-4)
- Latino Oral History (High School)
- Newark Renaissance (High School)
- Oral History (Grade 1-3)
Or see some other themes you can work with here.
Grade K-8 with upper grade level extensions
- a book list for children about the migration experience
Interpretive displays produced by teachers and librarians based on historical materials from our archives.
Online Materials from NPL
The Newark Public Library Digital Collection includes Articles, Photos, Documents, Maps & More, over 50 collections with thousands of items. Here are some other materials the library has digitized.
- Newspaper Articles:
- Full-text articles about the 1967 Newark Riots from the Newark Evening News, July 13 – 16, 1967
- Knowing Newark: Selected Star-Ledger Columns by Charles F. Cummings, features over 500+ columns written about Newark by noted librarian, historian, and author Charles F. Cummings and originally published in the Star-Ledger
- Handouts:
- Newark’s Literary Lights (pdf of the 2016 publication, updated for the 350th Anniversary of the Founding of the City of Newark, NJ)
- Timeline of Ethnic Groups in Newark
- Youtube:
- NPL’s Youtube Account: youtube.com/NewarkPublicLibrary contains recordings out our historical programs.
- Programs co-sponsored by the Newark History Society can be found on their Youtube at youtube.com/NewarkHistorySocietyOrg