This lesson plan covers the Armenian Genocide and its effects on the ...
This lesson plan covers the Armenian Genocide and its effects on the world, and includes a procedural outline as well as discussion questions and activities.
This guide takes users through 10 step-by-step activities on FRED®, the free ...
This guide takes users through 10 step-by-step activities on FRED®, the free online economic database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, to show how quickly and easily it is to find and graph economic data and save and share them as a custom graph. The FRED database includes more than 390,000 economic data time series from dozens of national, international, public, and private sources. FRED allows users to combine and display data with an easy-to-master mix of tools. With just a few minutes of practice, anyone can use FRED to tell a story using data. The dataset used for these activities is real gross domestic product (GDP).
The goal of this unit is to guide students in a study ...
The goal of this unit is to guide students in a study of the early Islamic World through the eyes of a 12th century Spanish pilgrim, Abul-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmed ibn Jubayr, who undertook the Hajj in 1183 and traveled extensively throughout the Islamic world before his return to Spain, meticulousy documenting his travels.
This resource defines sociological imagination and the beliefs and assumptions of functionalism, ...
This resource defines sociological imagination and the beliefs and assumptions of functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and exchange theory.
Explore climate and latitude relative to the settlement of the original 13 ...
Explore climate and latitude relative to the settlement of the original 13 colonies.
GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.
This site provides information about colonial America, the immigration of different groups, ...
This site provides information about colonial America, the immigration of different groups, commerce and industry, politics, and the influence of the church. Students will learn about the factors that categorized all of the American colonies, as well as the differences between the northern, middle and southern colonies. A video is included as well as a quiz.
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York ...
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date. This resource includes reading guides, activities, and other classroom materials from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York ...
The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date. This resource includes reading guides, activities, and other classroom materials from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
This resource discusses how and why social inequality in the larger society ...
This resource discusses how and why social inequality in the larger society manifests itself in higher education, describes the extent of school violence and the controversy over zero-tolerance policies, and describes how schooling in the United States helps perpetuate social inequality.
Changes in voting qualifications and participation, the election of Andrew Jackson, and ...
Changes in voting qualifications and participation, the election of Andrew Jackson, and the formation of the Democratic Party"”due largely to the organizational skills of Martin Van Buren"”all contributed to making the election of 1828 and Jackson's presidency a watershed in the evolution of the American political system.
In this lesson, students will use information to draw conclusions from maps, ...
In this lesson, students will use information to draw conclusions from maps, charts, and graphs. After analyzing the information, they will determine the 1860 election results and the impact of the results on the Civil War.
In this collaborative activity, student groups are given a packet of primary ...
In this collaborative activity, student groups are given a packet of primary source documents that relate to a specific country's role in WWI. Students are tasked with identifying their assigned country by examining the documents.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the importance of consumerism in ...
In this lesson, students are introduced to the importance of consumerism in the 1920s and recognize the connections between commodities and culture in the American past and present.
In this lesson, students will explore how, prior to the involvement of ...
In this lesson, students will explore how, prior to the involvement of national initiatives in the 1960s, such as the Freedom Rides, local people worked to bring an end to discrimination in their communities. These efforts were led out of public view in private homes, churches, and small businesses, and thus, the early local leaders of the Civil Rights Movement are often overlooked in history. Students will learn how the work of these local leaders laid the foundation for national organizations such as SNCC and CORE to further facilitate the fight for civil rights within Mississippi as well as the nation.
This is a short video outlining the causes and effects of a ...
This is a short video outlining the causes and effects of a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964. Additional resources include a background essay and discussion questions.
This lesson engages students with original documents related to prison hulks to ...
This lesson engages students with original documents related to prison hulks to discover how the criminal justice system worked in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, especially with respect to "mercy".
In this lesson, students will review cardinal directions and/or positional words when ...
In this lesson, students will review cardinal directions and/or positional words when giving directions to a partner on how to navigate from one marked square and another on a paper grid sheet.
In this activity, students examine an advertisement from 1847 and answer a ...
In this activity, students examine an advertisement from 1847 and answer a series of questions. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.
In this lesson, students use an analysis worksheet prompting students to read ...
In this lesson, students use an analysis worksheet prompting students to read and analyze historic recipes using twenty questions. Included are sample recipes, including: Martha Washington's Great Cake Recipe, as well as 18th century recipes for Ice Cream, Broiled Herring, and Indian Pudding.
In this lesson, students use an object analysis worksheet prompting students to ...
In this lesson, students use an object analysis worksheet prompting students to read and analyze objects using twenty questions. Included are photographs of sample objects for analysis, including: the Key to the Bastille, Martha Washington's shoes, George Washington's Field Bedstead, the Houdon Bust of George Washington, and a Surveyor's Compass.
For this activity, students research questions about the climate of the United ...
For this activity, students research questions about the climate of the United States and the technology used in locating directions and areas on Earth. Students read the scenario, write & illustrate the chain of events to show the positive and negative situations surrounding the scenario. Vocabulary from the Challenging Social Studies Activities-Second Grade unit are needed for this activity.
For this activity, students research questions about the climate of the United ...
For this activity, students research questions about the climate of the United States and the technology used in locating directions and areas on Earth. Students read the scenario, write & illustrate the chain of events to show the positive and negative situations surrounding the scenario. Vocabulary from the Challenging Social Studies Activities-Second Grade unit are needed for this activity.
In this lesson from Teaching Tolerance, students will focus the most recent ...
In this lesson from Teaching Tolerance, students will focus the most recent constitutional expansion of voting rights: extending them to people between 18 and 21 years of age. Students will read the 26th Amendment and learn about its history. They will view an NBC report from Nov. 5, 2008, that explains how important the youth vote was to the election of Barack Obama. Finally, they will examine the results of a recent study showing that young voters have very different concerns than older voters, and hypothesize about how young voters might affect elections in the future.
As students study Harriet Tubman and her contribution to the Underground Railroad, ...
As students study Harriet Tubman and her contribution to the Underground Railroad, students will create a map that is labeled with coordinates and contains a number of stops at safehouses. Students will then create a program for Dash to start from a specific location and travel along the Underground Railroad.
Students learn about the historical background to the battle and are asked ...
Students learn about the historical background to the battle and are asked to ponder some of its legacy, including how history is reported and interpreted from different perspectives.
This resource provides suggested activities and downloadable resources for instruction related to ...
This resource provides suggested activities and downloadable resources for instruction related to position words. (NOTE: Only samples are available to download without a subscription.)
This resource describes the history of ethics codes for scientific research with ...
This resource describes the history of ethics codes for scientific research with human participants and summarizes the American Psychological Association Ethics Code.
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