In this lesson, students explore the active citizens who resisted the tyranny and atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi party, as well as those who worked to assist and rescue those targeted. Upon exploring these brave people, students will choose a person from the Holocaust who exhibited active citizenship, deliver a speech in their honor, and present them with a citizenship award at a mock reception.

In this lesson, students explore the concept of memory and the various ways people choose to process and share their memories. Focusing on memories from those who experiences the Holocaust, students explore the way various mediums (testimony, art, poetry, etc.) can teach us about the past. Finally, students focus on poetry and art written by children of the terezin concentration camp in which the authors share various memories and write a letter to their chosen child sharing what they wish they could say to him/her.

In this lesson, students learn about non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Students work in groups to read excerpts from the 'The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis', which highlights the experiences of additional groups deemed undesirable by Hitler, including Gypsies, African-Germans, Jehovah's Witnesses, Poles, political prisoners, and more. Students then connect the themes present in the persecution of these groups to occurrences within their own school and community, gaining an understanding of the danger of intolerance.

In this lesson, students will consider immigration in general as well as through the specific lens of the Asian Indian immigrant experience by viewing clips from Remarkable Journey. Students will explore their own immigrant ancestry as they consider the concept of America as a "Nation of Immigrants," as well as the varying reasons for immigration throughout history, the varied experiences of immigrants, their relationship to the American Dream, and the misconceptions that often frame immigration in our society. As a culminating artistic activity, students will create an updated Statue of Liberty - a new design that addresses immigration, America as a "Nation of Immigrants," the concept of the "American Dream," and the related concepts addressed throughout the lesson.

Students will be introduced to the Industrial Revolution's problem of child labor. Students will be able to describe advances in machinery during the Industrial Revolution. Students will identify reasons for the use of child laborers during the Industrial Revolution and describe how child laborers lived during the Industrial Revolution. Some of the YouTube links are dead, but the images are included in the pdf.

Students will receive an overview of the Holocaust via PPT, class discussion, readings, and creative activities. Students will begin by exploring prewar Jewish life, helping them understand that individual lives are behind Holocaust statistics. Students will illustrate their understanding of this period of history by creating a blended poem of their own words and the words of a Holocaust survivor.

In this lesson, students will gain historical reasoning skills by studying primary sources and
comparing them to secondary sources. They will become more familiar with the conditions in Japanese American concentration camps through the personal writings of Stanley Hayami, a high school student who was incarcerated in the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming.

Students will read a passage and write a possible explanation for how people rethought the decision to go to war. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

In this lesson, students will learn about the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, read the articles of the treaty, and rewrite them in their own words. Students then write about how the Treaty affects them today.

In 1899 and 1900, Secretary of State John Hay issued what became known as the Open Door Notes to foreign powers involved in China. Secretary Hay called on those powers to respect the rights of each other, to agree to an open market and equal trading opportunities for merchants of all nationalities, and to respect the territorial and administrative integrity of China.

Students map the migration journey of the Lost Boys and Girls. They discuss the concept of a diaspora and the challenges of displacement.

In this activity, students will analyze a picture from 1233, during the reign of King Henry III, and discuss how it relates to the centuries-long persecution of Jewish people.

This Achieve the Core 7th grade mini-assessment for The Long Night of the Little Boats by Basil Heater includes the text excerpt, quantitative and qualitative analyses of the text, question annotations, and supplemental materials so that students will experience an indepth understanding of the text.

Students will hear about the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups. Students will listen to historical information that cast its gaze over prominent conflicts of the last three centuries, and explore what it takes to end a war- both in legal terms, and in the popular imagination.

This unit begins with a set of lessons designed to explain the evolution of armed conflict. As warfare adapted, humans left behind natural toxins and poisons and began creating synthetic chemical weapons. The culminating products include an environmental impact statement regarding one specific chemical agent and a global project recommendation designed to mitigate the effects of that agent.

In this lesson, students are introduced to the Vietnam War through a simulation regarding the anxiety of combat and then receive an overview of the war via a teacher PowerPoint presentation or lecture (provided), or a text book reading followed by a class discussion. Students then create an illustrated timeline picturing the prominent events from the years of conflict.

A companion scavenger hunt for the PBS game: https://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html . Students must delve deeper into the hyperlinks in order to answer the questions.

This file is the PPT accompaniment for "Teaching Activities for Remarkable Journey." "Remarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina" is a documentary that illustrates the history, culture, lives, and contributions of Indian-Americans in North Carolina.

In this lesson, students gain a basic understanding of the Vietnam War with a special focus on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. After assessing student prior knowledge of the Vietnam War using a word web, students examine basic information about the Vietnam War through a jigsaw reading.  An illustrated timeline activity and discussion are used to assess student learning of reading.  Students learn about the controversy surrounding the creation of the Vietnam Memorial Wall through a “Reader’s Theatre” activity.  The lesson culminates with students creating their own Vietnam Memorial for a class competition.

In this resource, students can read about some of the codes and codebreakers that have sealed the fate of queens and of wars throughout British history, as well as learning about different spies and creating their own coded messages.