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Democracy & Civic Engagement
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.
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.
Dismantling Democracy (UK)
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Use these slides to help students examine the steps the Nazis took to replace democracy with dictatorship and draw conclusions about the values and institutions that make democracy possible.
Identity Charts
In this classroom video, students create identity charts about themselves as they prepare to write narrative essays.
Introducing Universe of Obligation in an English Language Arts Classroom
In this classroom video, an English language arts teacher introduces the idea of a “universe of obligation."
Journaling in a Reflective Classroom
In this classroom video, middle school students acclimate to using journals during the first week of school.
How Should We Remember?
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Use these slides to help students learn how to both respond to and design Holocaust memorials as they consider the impact that memorials and monuments have on the way we think about history.
Introducing the Unit
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Use these slides to help students prepare to study the unit by reading a letter and working together to create a classroom contract.
Justice and Judgement after the Holocaust
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Use these slides to help students grapple with the meaning of justice and the purpose of trials as they learn how the Allies responded to the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
Kristallnacht
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Use these slides to help students learn about the violent pogroms of Kristallnacht by watching a short documentary and then reflecting on eyewitness testimonies.
Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment
This reading contains excerpts from the Emanicipation Proclimation and the Thirteenth Amendment.