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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.
Defining Confirmation Bias
Reporters and media professionals define the term “confirmation bias,” and discuss its effect on how people approach and evaluate news and other information.
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Student Activities: The Ethics of Generative AI in the Classroom
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These are the student-facing slides for the mini-lesson “The Ethics of Generative AI in the Classroom.” Students learn about tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E and consider norms around their use in schools.
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Action Project Planning Tool
Design your Choosing to Participate civic action project using this planning tool.
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Facing History Hacks: Connecting Social Justice, History, and Technology
San Francisco Bay Area teens explore ways technology can be used for social justice and community engagement at Facing History’s first ever Civic Hackathon hosted by Brocade.
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Power and Choices Anticipation Guide
Students decide if they agree or disagree with a set of statements about the different ways to make change.
Analyzing Choices and Consequences in Warriors Don’t Cry
Use the handout to find and record evidence to analyze the range of responses to desegregation in Little Rock.
Iceberg Diagram Template
Students use this handout to explore the multiple causal factors behind an event from history, the present, or literature, using the visual of an iceberg.
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Mississippi Miscegenation Laws
This document lists in chronological order the evolution of Mississippi miscegenation laws between 1865 and 1942.
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The Brown Decision
This document gives students the immediate historical context of the Till murder by summarizing the segregationist reaction to the Brown decision and the emergence of White Citizens’ Councils in Mississippi.
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Quotes from the Mississippi Constitutional Convention 1890
This source includes quotes from delegates at the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention asserting the desire to create a government to uphold white supremacy.
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African American and White Voter Registration in Louisiana (1878 -2010)
This graph shows the strategies that white Southern legislators used to disenfranchise African Americans during the Jim Crow era.
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