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Text Set

Designed for students in grades 8-10, this text set includes lesson plans and multi-genre texts for a 1–2 week unit exploring the essential question, "What makes me, me?"

Collection

Incorporate these community-building routines into your lessons to set a welcoming tone, allow students to connect with one another, and encourage goal setting.

Two students in conversation while looking down at a laptop computer.

Collection

Explore our online resource on the Indian Residential Schools and their long-lasting effects on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples.

Cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."

Unit

This unit uses the 10 Questions Framework to explore two examples of youth activism: the 1963 Chicago schools boycott and the present-day movement against gun violence launched by Parkland students.

Facing History and Ourselves Bullying Summit September 29th 2012 in Los Angeles CA

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Explorez nos ressources en ligne sur les pensionnats autochtones et leurs effets à long terme sur les Peuples Autochtones au Canada.

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 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.

Unit

Teach a 3-week study of the Reconstruction era guided by the essential question "What can we learn from the history of Reconstruction as we work to strengthen democracy today?"

Collection

These back-to-school activities are designed to create welcoming learning environments that prioritize care, relationships, and community.

Students sit around a table working on a big paper activity while receiving feedback from an educator.

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.

Toolkit

This toolkit of teacher resources and classroom activities will help you lay a foundation for a reflective and caring community in the opening days of the school year.

Students move around the classroom in conversation with each other. One student looks directly into the camera with a smile on their face.

Collection

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

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Identity and Storytelling

Establishing Opening and Closing Routines

Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools

10 Questions for Young Changemakers

Vies volées: Les Peuples Autochtones au Canada et le régime des pensionnats

Memphis 1968

Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age

The Reconstruction Era 3-Week Unit

Activities for the First Days of School

The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy

Back to School: Building Community for Connection and Learning

The Reconstruction Era Primary Sources

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Filter

Type

Topics

Academic Subjects

Language

Current Events

Identity and Storytelling

Establishing Opening and Closing Routines

Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools

10 Questions for Young Changemakers

Vies volées: Les Peuples Autochtones au Canada et le régime des pensionnats

Memphis 1968

Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age

The Reconstruction Era 3-Week Unit

Activities for the First Days of School

The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy

Back to School: Building Community for Connection and Learning

The Reconstruction Era Primary Sources

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