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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War
This resource details the events that unfolded in China and Japan in the years leading up to World War II and the war crimes known today as the Nanjing Atrocities.
Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement
Use this resource on the Eugenics movement of the early 1900s to deepen students' understanding of the history of racism in the United States.
From Reflection to Action: A Choosing to Participate Toolkit
This guide contains a flexible collection of activities, readings, lessons, and strategies designed to help you develop a meaningful civic education experience in your classroom.
Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and The Indian Residential Schools
Designed for Canadian educators, this resource examines the Indian Residential Schools and their long-lasting effects on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples.
A Teacher’s Resource to The Children of Willesden Lane
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Use this guide to teach the memoir The Children of Willesden Lane and its powerful story of a woman who escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport.
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
This 23-lesson unit on the Holocaust and World War II asks students to reflect on the essential question, What does learning about the choices people made during the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazi Party, and the Holocaust teach us about the power and impact of our choices today?
Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention
This resource challenges students to consider how individuals, groups, and nations can take up Raphael Lemkin’s challenge to eliminate genocide.
Teaching Current Events: Educator Guide
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This guide includes tools and strategies for organizing discussions about current events in your classroom.
Supporting a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom
In this classroom video, social studies teacher Tareeq Rasheed teaches the lesson “The Choices the Leaders Made (Part II)” from the Choices in Little Rock unit.
Teaching about Segregation and Its Consequences: Examining Plessy v. Ferguson
In this classroom video, social studies teacher Jenna Forton teaches a lesson from the Choices in Little Rock unit
Teaching Strategy: Big Paper
In this classroom video, a high school history teacher uses the Big Paper teaching strategy as he shares primary source documents about the Reconstruction era with his students.