Lessons, Units and Outlines

These lessons and units demonstrate how our resources and our Scope and Sequence can be applied within a classroom setting. Since every learning context is unique, we expect educators to adapt these ideas to their own students' needs. Lessons typically include activities that run between one and two hours. Units are a series of lessons that address the same resource or theme.

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Lessons » Armenian Genocide Lesson One: Identity and Belonging Lesson one introduces students to the Armenian Genocide by having them think about the role of history in shaping their own identity. Looking at an autobiographical painting by Arshile Gorky, a renowned American artists and a refugee from the Armenian Genocide, will stimulate students' questions about how his identity was shaped by the past. These questions should provide an entry point into a study of the Armenian Genocide. More Lessons

Units » Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985 Individuals, groups and nations have responded to injustice throughout history. The purpose of this series of lessons is to look at one particular approach to responding to injustice: the strategy of nonviolence. While these lessons were written to be used together, they can also be used on their own. More Units

Curriculum Outlines »

Grades 11 & 12 Elective World History
The course draws from the content and methodology of Facing History and Ourselves. Facing History is an international education foundation focusing on curriculum and teacher

Holocaust and Human Behavior Unit Plan for Jewish Day Schools
This course is designed with middle and high school students in mind. The unit outline can and should be adapted to suit the needs of your class. The extent

Unit Plan for Supplementary Jewish Schools
The Facing History and Ourselves Jewish Education Project provides teachers in Jewish educational settings with training, support

United States History / World History - 11th Grade This unit will highlight the dramatically different ways Germany responded to the economic crisis. Students are encouraged to reflect throughout their