Primary Source Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plan: Immigrant Life in Brooklyn - The Italian Community (PDF)
- Lesson Plan: Analyzing an Atlas - Coney Island, 1929 (PDF)
Worksheets
- Analyzing Primary Sources Worksheet (PDF)
- Creating a Neighborhood Profile Worksheet (PDF)
- Creating a Bibliography Worksheet (PDF)
Research Project Outlines
- Brooklyn Bridge Project Packet (PDF)
- Great Depression Project Packet (PDF)
- Sunset Park Project Packet (PDF)
- Independent Research Project Packet (PDF)
- Oyster Industry Project Packet (PDF)
- Architecure in Crown Heights Project Packet (PDF)
- The Brooklyn Navy Yard Project Packet (PDF)
- The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Project Packet (PDF)
Guidebooks
Example Projects
From past Brooklyn Connections Participants
See Example Projects about the Civil Rights Movement, Landmarks of Sunset Park and the Verrazano Bridge.

Brooklyn Connections is supported by generous grants from the New York Life Foundation and The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund. Additional support is provided by Tiger Baron Foundation and Epstein Teicher Philanthropies.