In this activity, students examine an advertisement for available acreage in Nebraska 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 activity, students will use primary and secondary sources to learn about the roles of women on the homefront during WWII. Students will research and write their parts for a class play that will be video-recorded. Students will also compare the effects on the people on the Homefront during WW2 with the people on the Homefront during the U.S. conflicts of today in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Students will identify the significant figures of the Scientific Revolution and their contribution to scientific knowledge.

Students will create baseball cards on individuals after research on selected figures from the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment using primary sources and other materials.

In this lesson, students research the Triangle Shirtwaist factory using primary and secondary sources. Students will synthesize and interpret a wide array of information using argument, narrative or informative writing skills.

In this lesson, students are given a realistic, first person account of the war in an interactive format. The lesson uses a reader's theater script created from excerpts of diary entries from a Turkish soldier during the Gallipoli campaign. It can be used in conjunction with "Life in the Trenches: Photograph Analysis."

In this activity, students study an image 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 will be able to discuss how the space race impacted American culture using evidence from the primary sources and a video.

In this activity, students study political cartoons 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 activity, students use spiral questions to analyze a primary source. Spiral questions guide students from lower- to higher-level critical thinking skills so that they become comfortable and adept at analyzing primary sources. The technique can be used with documents, photographs, and other primary sources. There are three levels of spiral questions: description, interpretation, and analysis.

This lesson introduces students to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the "big 5" civil rights organizations (the other four were: the Urban League, NAACP, SCLC, and CORE). The SNCC is credited with having led the student portion of the civil rights movement and with helping initiate the movement's transition to the Black Power phase of the late 1960s. Students will understand the motivation of African-American students in organizing the sit-in in Greensboro and the formation of the SNCC, how the generational differences between members of SNCC and other civil rights groups led to a difference in emphasis in the organizations, and the ideological transition to Black Power in the late 1960s.

In this activity, students study a political cartoon 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 will collaboratively examine and analyze editorial cartoons focusing on Theodore Roosevelt and the subject of American Imperialism. Students will identify and explain the intended message of the cartoons and gauge the accuracy of the content.

In this lesson, students investigate the Vietnam War. The lesson stresses the importance of the Tet Offensive in turning American public opinion against the war and illuminates how the Vietnam War remains a vital part of American life and culture.

In this lesson, students learn about nationalism in the U.S. including the improvements in transportation and the westward movement that resulted.

In this lesson, students will use political cartoons to become familiar with the core issues and concerns of the treaty process, including President Woodrow Wilson's support of the Treaty of Versailles and US Congressional (mostly Republican) opposition.

In this lesson, students will apply knowledge of persuasive techniques, primary sources, and historical background study of the time period to defend or convict Galileo at the Inquisition. Students will become familiar with the Trial of Galileo Galilei and will achieve mastery understanding of who Galileo was, and how his life and trial impacted the Enlightenment.

In this lesson, students will engage in close reading to learn how people lived in the late 19th century. Students will also visualize a main character in a text, and then create an in-depth dialogue between two people, using details from the text.

In this lesson, students will examine the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution.

In this lesson, students explain the meaning of the Preamble to the Constitution in their own words.