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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.
Barometer
In this classroom video, middle school students learn how to participate in a Barometer activity during the first week of school.
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Contracting
In this classroom video, a middle school teacher leads his class through the contracting process during the first week of school and students discuss expectations and norms of how class members will treat each other.
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Exploring Identity
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Use these slides to help students learn about the social and cultural factors that help shape our identities by analysing a story and creating personal identity charts.
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Making Rights Universal
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Use these slides to help students analyse four rights in the UDHR and decide whether they are universal and enjoyed by all in the world today.
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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.
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Protesting Discrimination in Bristol
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Use these slides to help students use the historical case study of the Bristol Bus Boycott to examine strategies for bringing about change in our communities.
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Public Art as Form of Participation
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Use these slides to help students analyse the Battle of Cable Street Mural and reflect on the role of public art to commemorate, educate, and build community.
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Using Journals at the Beginning and End of a Lesson
In this classroom video, a high school history teacher uses journals with his students both at the beginning and end of a lesson on Reconstruction.
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Race and Space
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Use these slides to help students examine the Nazi ideology of “race and space” and the role it played in Germany’s aggression toward other nations, groups, and individuals.
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Responding to Difference
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Use these slides to help students explore a poem by James Berry about the ways we respond to difference and complete a creative assignment about their school or community.
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The Rise of the Nazi Party
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Use these slides to help students examine how choices made by individuals and groups contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party in the 1920s and 1930s.
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