Resource Library
Find compelling classroom resources, learn new teaching methods, meet standards, and make a difference in the lives of your students.
We are grateful to The Hammer Family Foundation for supporting the development of our on-demand learning and teaching resources.
![A group of high school students sit at desks in conversation.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2023-10/AdobeStock_254378868.jpg?itok=f6YAphey)
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.
Back to School: Building Community for Connection and Learning
These back-to-school activities and teacher resources will help you lay a foundation for a reflective and caring community at the start of the school year.
![Students move around the classroom in conversation with each other. One student looks directly into the camera with a smile on their face.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/LA_ClassroomImage_2018_FH287148.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=lbbZPe6H)
Angel Island Immigration Station: Exploring Borders and Belonging in US History
This 5-7 day C3-aligned inquiry explores the compelling question “How does the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station help us understand how borders are erected, enforced, and challenged?”
![Immigrants arriving at Angel Island.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-01/Immigrants_Arriving_At_Angel_Island_1911_FH2186765.jpg?h=d1f0e8ce&itok=6TRmkYH9)
Democracy and Current Events
This toolkit provides lessons and strategies for helping your students make sense of issues in the news related to democracy.
![Young women voting at the polls.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-01/iStock-1001754940.jpg?h=119335f7&itok=XzukiFzx)
Current Events Toolkit
This toolkit provides flexible and adaptable tools and strategies for integrating current events into your teaching.
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We the People: Expanding the Teaching of the US Founding
This 5-7 day C3-aligned inquiry explores the compelling question "How do we reckon with a history full of complexities and contradictions?"
![Outside of the classroom view of students and teacher.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/5-1-17FacH07068.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=0r6yJiZ2)
In Pursuit of Democracy and Freedom: A US History Inquiry
This 5–7 day C3-aligned inquiry explores the compelling question, “How can we make real the ideals of democracy and freedom?”
![Raised Hands](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/iStock-1295743312.jpg?h=f0aa43ba&itok=xw8m5p4Y)
The Pursuit of Educational Justice in Boston
This 7–9 day C3-aligned inquiry explores the compelling question, “What can we learn from Boston’s past about what it takes to make progress toward educational justice today?”
![Motorcycle police escort school buses as they leave South Boston High School](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/AP578859834926.jpg?h=81d02d30&itok=pvLW0Jse)
Rejecting Nazism
Learn about the Edelweiss Pirates and the Swing Kids, two German youth groups that questioned Nazism.
![A 1938 photo of a group of Edelweiss Pirates, an unofficial youth groups that emerged in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1938_EdelweissPirates_%20FH229438.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=caMiT2YX)
Schooling for the National Community
Learn how the Nazis transformed German schools to advance their nationalist and racial ideologies.
![This propaganda poster from 1933 reads, “Hitler’s fight and Luther’s teaching are the best defense for the German people.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_NaziPropagandaDepictingMartinLuther_FH229430.jpg?h=8e8ffec8&itok=U_tsi-fT)
Speaking in Whispers
Learn about the role of cell and block wardens, Germans who collected information about their neighbors in Nazi German society.
![An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935. The headline above the case says, ""The Jews Are Our Misfortune.""](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_NaziPropagandaNewspaper_FH229452.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=WOgfci3M)
Speaking in Whispers (en español)
Learn about the role of cell and block wardens, Germans who collected information about their neighbors in Nazi German society. This resource is in Spanish.
![An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935. The headline above the case says, ""The Jews Are Our Misfortune.""](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_NaziPropagandaNewspaper_FH229452.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=WOgfci3M)