This lesson includes information pertaining to the ways in which man lived during the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age. Students will acquire knowledge through the utilization of a PowerPoint presentation while completing a graphic organizer throughout the lesson.

This is an activity which has the students interacting with a primary source document dealing with the annexation of Hawaii. This document is a petition against the United States against annexation in both Hawaiian and English.

Students will watch a short set of videos and respond to questions set provided on the Protestant Reformation and determine if the Diet at Worms should condemn Martin Luther using primary sources. 

The Committee of Public Safety's assumption of political power and rule between 1793 and 1794 marked what was arguably the most radical phase of the French Revolution. The Committee justified its excesses as necessary to protect against domestic and foreign counter-revolutionaries. In this lesson, students question the motives of the Committee through analyzing excerpts from the "Decree Against Profiteers" and "Law of Suspects."

With this digital collection, students will review a small sample of the different ways in which religious change drove the development of print culture. Through them, students will gain a better understanding of the immense challenges caused by religious change in this period, and the different ways in which print culture was shaped and re-shaped in order to meet them. Students will keep the following questions in mind as they review the documents: 1. Why did so many religious thinkers and leaders seek to solve the problems they encountered through the printed word? 2. What is the intended audience for these works? How did the authors and creators try to interact with that audience through the materials they produced? 3. How does the changing nature of print culture reflect the changing nature of religion during this period? 4. How does the religious printing market reflect the increasingly globalized world in the early modern period? 5. What parallels are there between early modern print culture and modern mass media?

In this lesson, students will examine the major events and significance of hte Korean War, including U.S. involvement in the war. Students will read primary source materials to understand the political, social, emotional, and cultural costs of the Korean War.

This module covering Poland's Solidarity movement up to the fall of Communism includes teaching strategies, primary sources, a lesson plan, discussion questions, and a writing prompt.

This lesson is designed to acquaint students with the major differences and similarities between the main forms of European and American Government prevalent during the first half of the nineteeth century, i.e., after the major revolutions of the previous century, and to familiarize students with the philosophical rationales undergirding each form of government, particularly the theoretical and practical relationship between the individual and the state.

This chart presents historical thinking questions, historical thinking skills, and Common Core reading and writing skills that teachers should consider when planning activities and tasks for students in grades 11 and 12.

In this lesson, students assume the role of historians analyzing primary source material - investigating archival New York Times articles for evidence about the causes and consequences of the atrocities against Armenians. Following, there are opportunities to explore related contemporary issues, including laws prohibiting discussion or denial of historical events and current United States policy refusing to officially recognize the Armenian genocide.

This lesson aims to take advantage of The New York Times as a living textbook - a source that chronicled the Vietnam War as it took place and that continues to look back with the benefit of hindsight. The page offers a curated selection of three types of primary sources: photographs, original articles, and first-person accounts. Scroll down to find accompanying teaching activities that build students' analytical skills while encouraging inquiry.

This lesson pairs a Times article about the historical resonance of Europe's refugee crisis with an excerpt from "Defying the Nazis" that chronicles the Sharp's relief and rescue mission in 1939. Together, these texts raise important questions about whether there are "lessons" of history and invite reflection on how individuals and governments choose to respond to those in need.

This lesson presents two sides of a debate about Magna Carta's significance. Students read an Op-Ed essay in The Times and an essay in the Wall Street Journal, and decide what they think: Is the document worthy of celebrating 800 years later? Or is its importance just a myth?

This lesson compares the moment of euphoria when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 with today's Berlin, a transformed city in which many do not remember the oppressive divisions of the past. In follow-up activities, students can evaluate the choices made since 1989 and decide if the Cold War is really over.

This lesson focuses on the concept of the afterlife and the importance of pleasing the gods and goddesses, the significance of tombs and tomb building, and the burial customs and traditions of the ancient Egyptians. After learning about all of these concepts, students will design a tomb, create a model of it, and complete a short written assignment explaining the design and contents of the tomb.

The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the issues that have created two Koreas and have kept them apart for more than 50 years. Students will analyze the issue of reunification and develop their own position paper on how reunification might occur.

This unit brings together multimedia resources describing Imperialism. Multiple documents are available for analysis of policies among competing nations that led to Colonialism, Social Darwinism, Racism, Nationalism and Paternalism.

This unit brings together multimedia resources describing early human migrations and river valley civilizations. Multiple documents are available for examining the social and governmental developments in ancient Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Egypt and China.

This unit brings together multimedia resources describing the Civil War in England and revolution in France and the Americas. Multiple documents are available for examining the causes and effects of the French, American and Latin American revolutions.

This unit brings together multimedia resources describing the Industrial Revolution. Multiple documents are available for analysis of methods and goals of industrialization and the impact on human conditions.