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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.
Concept Maps: Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate (UK)
Students sort, arrange, and connect their thoughts on an idea or question, creating a visual representation of their understanding.
Café Conversations (UK)
Students practice perspective-taking by representing the point of view of an assigned personality in a small-group discussion.
Relevant or Not?
Help students identify relevant evidence, and give them an opportunity to practice evidence selection with their peers and as a class.
Membership
Examine how Indigenous identities in Canada have been shaped by the ways European settlers responded to real and imagined differences between themselves and the Indigenous Peoples.
Language and Identity
Explore how language and culture shape identity, and learn about the challenges faced by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada to preserve their traditional identity.
Character Maps (UK)
Help students engage with a fictional or historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
The Indian Act and the Indian Residential Schools
Learn the history behind the legislation and policies created by the Canadian government in the nineteenth century to dispossess and assimilate the Indigenous Peoples.
The Residential School Experience
Read firsthand accounts from survivors of their often profoundly painful and damaging experiences at residential schools.
Targeting Jews (UK)
Learn about the Nazis' boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, including a firsthand account from a German Jew.
The Costs and Benefits of Belonging
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Use these slides to help students learn about group membership and explore the range of responses available to us when we encounter exclusion, discrimination, and injustice.
Aggressive Assimilation
Facing the resilience of indigenous traditional education in Canada, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, who was also Minister of Indian Affairs, commissioned Nicholas Flood Davin, a journalist, lawyer, and politician, to go to Washington, DC, in 1879 to study how the United States tackled the same issue.