Listed below are resources available from the Akron-Summit County Public Library that support many activities and exercises related to the Social Studies Skills and Methods lesson plan, My Community Then and Now, from the Ohio History Teachers site.

Neighborhoods

• Research guide to Akron’s neighborhoods
• Akron neighborhood profiles (City of Akron)
• Local History Database
• Finding aids to archived collections include Memories of Downtown, Neighborhood History Project, and the Wallpaper Project.
• Articles published in the Special Collections newsletter Past Pursuits: Akron’s Union Park, The Jennings School, and The Riots of 1968. 
•  Online books: Akron City Directories and  West Hill Sketch Book .
• Akron and Summit County Maps on Summit Memory.
• Local Links

Ethnic Groups

• Articles published in the Past Pursuits newsletter: African American, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish, and Welsh communities.
• Some sources from the library catalog: African Americans, German Americans, Greek Americans, Hungarian Americans, Jewish Americans.
• Online books: the 1940 Akron Negro Directory, Century of Adjustment: A History of the Akron Jewish Community, 1865-1875, Contributions of Blacks in Akron, and an article on the history of Jews in Akron published in the newspaper, Jewish Criterion, in 1919 (page 7).
• Finding aids to archived collections: Arbeiter Saengerbund Freiheit Club Collection (German), Coming Together Project (Race Relations), Frank Klein Collection (German), German-American Club (Mutual Aid Society) Collection, Jewish Community Board of Akron Collection.
• Images on Summit Memory: German Akron; Jewish Community Board of Akron; issues of the Akron African American newspaper The Ohio Informer from the Samuel Shepard Collection; and the Opie Evans Collection (African-Americans, Civil Rights Movement).
• Local African American newspaper, The Reporter, on microfilm (1969 to present)
• Local Jewish newspaper, Akron Jewish News, issues in Special Collections Archives
• Local Links

Lesson Plan Examples and Ideas

• What is a Neighborhood (Grades 11-12)
• Immigration: Our Changing Voices (Grades 6-12)