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Curriculum Guides


Leonard Everett Fisher


The Non-Fiction Book Series

This resource guide was created through a partnership between the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and the School of Education at the University of Connecticut. The Fisher Papers, housed in Archives & Special Collections at the Dodd Research Center as part of the Northeast Children's Literature Collection, contain original manuscripts, proofs, illustrations, and personal ephemera from Fisher's professional and personal life. The resource guide is part of a larger author study based on the manuscripts of the Fisher Papers. Access the curriculum guide>


Teacher Lesson Plans

This resource includes lesson plans for the elementary grades which focus on nine different works illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher. Access the curriculum guide>



Human Rights

This set of curriculum guides is for the Human Rights Education Project, which was initiated in early 2003 though conversations among Dr. Thomas (Tim) Weinland, Professor emeritus in Curriculum and Instruction at the Neag School of Education, Thomas Wilsted, Director of the Dodd Research Center, and Terri Goldich, then curator for the Alternative Press Collection. Access the curriculum guides>



Issues of the Holocaust

A curriculum guide for secondary school educators, based on the Nuremberg Trial Files of Senator Thomas J. Dodd. Access the curriculum guide>



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