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Help students become informed and effective civic participants in today's digital landscape. This unit is designed to develop students' critical thinking, news literacy, civic engagement, and social-emotional skills and competencies.

Peaceful protestor speaks to police officer in Ferguson.

Mini-Unit

Address today's global challenges with lesson plans focused on current events including the refugee crisis and contemporary antisemitism.

Large crowd of citizens gathering in solidarity with refugees. Some are holding up UNHCR signs.

Collection

Use this rich collection of Reconstruction era primary sources, videos, and a 3-week unit to engage your students in this pivotal period in US history and its legacies today.

African American and Radical Republican members of the South Carolina Legislature in the 1870s.

Collection

Enrich your teaching on the Reconstruction era with these primary source documents and images.

Portraits superimposed on an image of the American flag

Mini-Unit

Lessons and resources help you explore the sanitation workers’ strike and other events that brought Dr. King to Memphis in the spring of 1968. This lesson is part of our partnership with the National Civil Rights Museum's MLK50 initiative.

Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. marching arm in arm with a crowd of men participating in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker's Strike.

Unit

Help students understand that their voices are integral to the story of the United States with six lesson plans that investigate individual and national identity.

An illustrated collage of silhouettes in bright colors.

Unit

Use this unit to transform how you teach J.B. Priestley's play and support your students in becoming effective writers, critical thinkers, and socially responsible citizens, who excel in their GCSEs.