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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.
Stranger at the Gate Viewing Guide
Bring the short documentary film Stranger at the Gate into your classroom with the streaming video and companion guide of discussion questions and activities.
ELA Unit Planning Guide
This guide provides the framework and classroom resources to help you design an English Language Arts unit for middle or high school students centered around a book of your choosing.
Barometer
In this classroom video, middle school students learn how to participate in a Barometer activity during the first week of school.
Connecting Students to Memorials via Arts/Makerspace
In this classroom video, students learn how to create art to memorialize those lost in the Holocaust.
Contracting
In this classroom video, a middle school teacher leads his class through the contracting process during the first week of school and students discuss expectations and norms of how class members will treat each other.
Exploring Judgment and Justice
In this classroom video, students explore the nature of justice and how the unwritten rules of society can impact how laws are carried out.
Gallery Walk
This classroom video shows a high school class using the Gallery Walk strategy to consider images of monuments and memorials before embarking on an "Action Project."
Graffiti Boards
This classroom video shows a high school class using the Graffiti Board strategy as a brainstorming tool in preparation for their "Action Project."
Identity Charts for Historical Figures
In this classroom video, students create identity charts for different civil rights activists.
Identity Charts
In this classroom video, students create identity charts about themselves as they prepare to write narrative essays.