Lessons & Mini-Lessons
Feel prepared to discuss challenging current events or to explore pivotal periods in history with your students.
Our lessons are written using Facing History’s unique pedagogical approach, with activities that balance personal reflection and collaboration and draw upon primary source material selected to activate students’ intellectual, emotional, and ethical engagement.
Reflecting on Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb"
Use these activities to help students reflect on the themes in Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Day poem and consider how their unique experiences and voices can help America “forge a union with purpose.”
Assessing the Strength of Democracy in the United States
This mini-lesson provides students with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of democracy and reflect on the strength of our democracy.
I love the way I can show my students how events in the past still impact our lives today. Because of what you do, I can make history a living breathing thing in my classroom!
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An educator describing our current events mini-lessons
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