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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.
Stolen Lives: The Charge of Genocide and the Residential Schools
Various scholars, indigenous and non-indigenous, discuss the charge of genocide regarding the Residential School system in Canada and its effects. This video is a part of the resource Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and The Indian Residential Schools.
Angel Island Immigration Station Gallery Walk
Students use these images to explore the concept of borders as social, economic, and political boundaries, as well as geographic ones.
Why Study History?
Get students' initial opinions about the importance and impact of history with this warm up activity.
Why Study History? (en español)
Get students' initial opinions about the importance and impact of history with this warm up activity. This resource is in Spanish.
Conventional Revolution: Raphael Lemkin and the Crime Without a Name
Scholar Donna-Lee Frieze chronicles the life and work of Raphael Lemkin.
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour: Unit Overview
This unit overview gives you a brief summary of all of the lessons in the unit and lists the materials needed alongside the main activities.
Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
Watch the landmark PBS documentary series Latino Americans, featuring interviews and more than 500 years of history.
Mobile Killing Units
Dr. Kutorgene write about what had happened in Kovno as the Nazis prepared to murder the Jews in the ghetto there.
We May Not Have Another Chance
This handout can be used to distribute a reading from the perspective of Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz to your students.
We May Not Have Another Chance (UK)
Allow students to reflect on a range of experiences and stories from the Holocaust in a Big Paper silent discussion.