This site is a description and link to of a series of lesson plans to help teachers present the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. These materials are from a workshop held at the Peabody Essex Museum in 1992. The lessons are intended for middle-high age students as an introduction to the trials perhaps in preparation for a school-related field trip. Each of the 5 lessons is organized around a particular topic including history, secondary accounts, issues of jurisprudence (spectral evidence), sociology, and conceptions of witchcraft and magic. The grade level, materials needed, objective and procedure for each lesson is carefully delineated. Each lesson also has a reference to the video Days of Judgment: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

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