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![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.
The Weimar Republic (UK)
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Use these slides to help students reflect on the idea of democracy as they analyse the politics, economics, and culture of Germany during the period of the Weimar Republic.
![A crowd of women standing in line at a polling station in the Weimar Republic in 1919, the first year women were allowed to vote.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Weimar_Republic_FH2ORD9641.jpg?h=62eceef8&itok=JLwxtMO9)
When Differences Matter
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Use these slides to help students consider what happens when society privileges one aspect of our identity above others.
![Teacher presenting to class.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Educator_Speaking_2015_FH137493.jpg?h=1116cd87&itok=zPGz2Qxg)
Why Little Things Are Big
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Use these slides to help students reflect on the power of being labelled and use Jesús Colón’s essay to reflect on their own experiences of being misjudged.
![Students participating in a discussion.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/High_School_Students_Classroom_2015_FH137533.jpg?h=1116cd87&itok=W0ZFmcjY)
Youth in Nazi Germany (UK)
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Use these slides to help students learn about the experiences of young people in Nazi Germany through a variety of firsthand accounts and identify the range of choices that they faced.
![Hitler Youth Group walking](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Hitler_Youth_Hiking_FH229449.jpg?h=0d872e3e&itok=E04itAN9)
Blending In and Standing Out
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Use these slides to help students review the factors that make up our identities and then explore the ways in which individuals, groups, and society can shape our identities and sense of belonging.
![Uniformed students sit in class.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/High_School_Students_2015_FH137475.jpg?h=1116cd87&itok=-FNDu8hS)
The Challenge of Confirmation Bias
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Use these slides to help students define confirmation bias and examine why people sometimes maintain their beliefs in the face of information that contradicts their understanding.
![Two high school students in a classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/sedgehillY10-021115-nk-HR-4.jpg?h=1116cd87&itok=gUvyU5kN)
Les diplomates et la décision de sauver des vies
Lisez les histoires de deux diplomates qui ont choisi d’utiliser leur statut pour sauver des Juifs des Nazis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
![Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WhiteRoseResistanceGroup_FH229473.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=BjXT-amv)
Teaching Strategies
Designed to support History, Citizenship, PSHE, RS and English, this resource offers a variety of classroom strategies to develop critical thinking and communication skills, model democracy in the classroom, and empower students to become active, responsible citizens.
![Preview of UK Teaching Strategies Guide](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-03/TeachingStrategiesUK.png?h=d3d13267&itok=X3ErfyBb)
Les réponses internationales à la Nuit de Cristal
Considérez comment des dirigeants comme FDR, des membres du clergé et des personnes ordinaires dans le monde entier ont réagi à la nouvelle de la Nuit de Cristal.
![In the Chicago Daily News, November 23, 1938, the cartoonist Cecil Jensen pleaded for world leaders to help Europe’s Jews.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Image_Ch07_07_Medium_res.jpg?h=f31e8512&itok=wXnPDOvH)
Témoins passifs des environs du château de Hartheim
Réfléchissez aux raisons pour lesquelles les habitants de Hartheim ont gardé le silence sur les preuves de meurtres de masse dont ils ont été témoins dans leur ville tout au long de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
![Jews wearing Star of David badges in the Lódz ghetto. Established in 1940, the Germans crowded 160,000 Jews from the Polish city, more than a third of its population, into the ghetto.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_JewsInTheLodzGhetto_%20FH229466.jpg?h=afb0b43a&itok=_7RMUlTN)
Colonising Poland (UK)
Learn about the Nazis’ plan to rearrange the population of Poland, which resulted in the displacement of more than a million ethnic Poles and Jews.
![An exhibit at a Berlin school persuades Germans to help colonize the Warthegau area of Poland. The exhibit says “The land calls you!,” and the painting shows a settler’s car passing by a Polish border sign that has been knocked down.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_ExhibitGermanysColonizationPoland_%20FH229464.jpg?h=83b6248d&itok=71GQUBqx)