Subject Guides: Political Cartoons: Teaching Resources

Lesson Plans & Ideas for Instruction

Using Primary Sources
Ideas for engaging students with primary sources and assessing critical thinking and analysis skills
Teacher's Guide to Analyzing Political Cartoons
Sample questions and follow-up activity ideas. This guide was created for grade-school teachers, but many of these ideas could easily be applied to the undergraduate college level.
Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View
Lesson plan activity ideas, handouts, and links to Library of Congress political cartoons digital collections.
Developing Questioning Skills by Investigating Political Cartoons
Lesson plan provided by the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum in Missouri.
Teaching with Documents, through the U.S. National Archives
Lessons by era with links to sample cartoons.