This teaching idea contains strategies and activities for supporting your students in the aftermath of a mass shooting, terrorist attack, or other violent event.
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A Commandant's View Images
View images of Franz Stangl, the commandant from Treblinka.
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A Kauaian Story of Love and Compassion
Divyesh describes how upstanding Hindu monks bridged religious differences and reached out to a community in need following a devastating hurricane in Hawai'i.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
A New Generation of Young Voters Emerges
While young people have a huge stake in US elections, historically they don’t show up when it comes time to vote. These teaching ideas allow students to explore youth voter turnout trends and how young people are trying to change them.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
After Parkland, Students Choose to Participate
As students take action after Florida's school shooting, introduce a framework for civic participation in your classroom. Facing History has also created suggested discussion questions to help you have the difficult conversations that follow traumatic violent events. Use these questions as a starting point to spark a dialogue around the ways youth can get involved, be Upstanders, and make their voices heard in their own communities.
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Always Purple
Emma and her classmates learns how to better empathize and listen to each other following the untimely passing of a fellow student.
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Amsterdam Students Create Walking Tour To Commemorate Holocaust Resistance, Persecution
With help from a Margot Stern Strom Innovation Grant, a teacher turns a dream into reality.
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Apartheid Resistance Posters
These posters represent six distinct aspects of the anti-apartheid movement's struggle for democracy in South Africa during the 1980s.
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The Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide Online Workshop | New York Times Headlines
This is a visual gallery of headlines from the New York Times during the Armenian Genocide. Click on the headlines to view the full articles.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Assessing The Strength of Democracy
Provide students with an opportunity to explore their understanding of democracy and to make meaning of current events about democracies at risk in the world today.
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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Attacks on Houses of Worship
Facilitate discussion in your classroom around the recent attacks in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim places of worship, and explore with students how communities respond after incidents of hate.
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Bearing Witness to Japanese American Incarceration
Use these activities and resources on Japanese American incarceration during World War II to introduce students to this history while exploring questions about American identity, racism, and citizenship.
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