Address today's global challenges in your classroom with lesson plans focused on current events including the refugee crisis and contemporary antisemitism.
In the second step of the Facing History Scope and Sequence, students examine the ways that humans so often create “in” groups and “out” groups and the consequences of creating those groups. Who are “we”? Who are “they”? The answers to these questions can have profound consequences, because they define who belongs and who does not.
The resources on this page examine this behavior and explore how and why important ideas about human similarities and differences—such as race, religion, and nation—have greatly influenced the way many societies have defined their membership in the past several centuries.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Media Literacy
Race in US History
Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age
Help students become informed and effective civic participants in today's digital landscape. This unit is design to develop students' critical thinking, news literacy, civic engagement, and social-emotional skills and competencies.
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Holocaust
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
Lead your students through a study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.
Lesson
Holocaust
A Scene from a Middle School Classroom
Students explore social conflict in a familiar setting through a case study set in a 7th grade classroom.
Lesson
Race in US History
Breaking The Racial Barriers
Students learn about soul band Booker T. and the M.G.'s and explore what it meant to be a racially integrated group in a time of segregation.
Lesson
Democracy & Civic Engagement
Confirmation and Other Biases
Students define explicit, implicit, and confirmation bias, and examine why people sometimes maintain their beliefs in the face of contradictory information.
Lesson
Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Contemporary Antisemitism and Youth
Students reflect on present-day antisemitism encountered online and on college campuses, and explore examples of youth who are standing up to it.
Lesson
Democracy & Civic Engagement
How Journalists Minimize Bias
Students experience the challenges to reporting objectively by writing a news piece and watching a video about how journalists counteract bias in the newsroom.
Lesson
Holocaust
Identity and Place
Students take on the question "Who am I?" and develop a concept of identity that will enrich their study of individuals living Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
Lesson
Justice & Human Rights
LGBTQ History and Why It Matters
Students learn about two millennia of LGBTQ history and reflect on how that history is represented in their textbooks and curricula.
Lesson
Democracy & Civic Engagement
Preparing Students for Difficult Conversations
Students establish a safe space for holding sensitive conversations, before introducing the events surrounding Ferguson, by acknowledging people's complicated feelings about race and creating a classroom contract.
Lesson
Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance
Recognising Antisemitism in British Football
Students use their experiences as fans or members of a team to explore contemporary antisemitism in British football.
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