In this online interactive, students explore the events of the Civil War from the perspective of a soldier. Students are given the opportunity to choose the side from which their perspective will be as they join a regiment in either the Confederate or the Union army.

Before learning the format and features of The Constitution, the students  have a chapter that relates the challenges to governing post Revolutionary War and subsequent failure of our first form of government (The Articles of Confederation) during Shays's Rebellion.  During this chapter they represent historical characters present at the convention and have a series of debates to settle the pressing issues of the time (how states should be represented in government, how slaves should be counted, and how to elect a president).

In this lesson, students will define propaganda and study the various types of propaganda techniques. After viewing an assortment of World War II propaganda across different mediums (posters and videos), students will create a piece of World War II propaganda. There is also an optional viewing guide for the Nazi propaganda film, "Triumph of the Will."

This unit is designed to teach about the causes and effects of the Great Depression, and provide an introduction to the use of primary sources in the study of history. This historical discovery approach will emphasize the role of the historian as detective using such skills as observation, discrimination, analysis, and synthesis to research and record history. Students will explore primary sources including photographs, poems, song lyrics, documents, maps, cartoons, as well as, secondary source texts in print and online.

In this lesson, students pinpoint and list specific problems of the Great Depression using what they have learned from analyzing a variety of primary sources. They will then form research groups to learn about President Frankling Roosevelt and New Deal Legislation using internet sources.

In this lesson, students continue working in their research groups (formed in previous lesson) to learn about additional New Deal programs.

In this lesson, students summarize major programs that were created by the New Deal by presenting the information they found in their research efforts through a variety of formats including but not limited to oral presentation, picture book, written report.

In this lesson, students use what they have learned in the unit to produce their own mock primary sources.

In this lesson, students demonstrate their learning throughout the unit through a presentation. Students will analyze peers' work using a rubric.

This film was selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures. It is a famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

In this lesson, students will learn about the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and read letters written to her by children living during the Great Depression. Students will apply their acquired knowledge creatively by assuming the role of Eleanor Roosevelt and responding to a letter of their choice.

In this activity, students examine a print from a wood engraving titled "Emancipation" 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 explore major events occurring at the end of World War II, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the forced relocation of Japanese Americans into internment camps, and America’s use of atomic weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Students will explore primary sources, read poetry and a narrative, and discuss the US government’s choices in depth while examining the affect on America, Japan, and the world community at large.

Students will explore the Articles of Confederation and the Articles' influence in revising the Constitution of 1787. Students will experience the sentiments of Federalists and Anti Federalists by participating in a partner debate as either North Carolina Federalist James Iredell or Anti Federalist Willie Jones.

This interactive site provides primary resources and curator interviews designed to focus on the lunch counter as an object in historical context. Also provided are a lesson plan and annotated links to other online resources to expand student understanding of the topic.

In this lesson, students will learn about the causes of and situations experienced during the Great Depression.

This presentation is intended for use with the lesson plan "The Great Depression." In this lesson, students will learn about the causes of and situations experienced during the Great Depression.

In this lesson, students learn firsthand about the childhoods of Jacobs and Keckly from reading excerpts from their autobiographies. They practice reading for both factual information and making inferences from these two primary sources.

Through this lesson, students will better understand Harriet Tubman's decisions in the larger context of the institution of slavery.

In this lesson, students learn about the conditions of African Americans in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 through reading excerpts from the Benton County Freedom Train newsletter. Students will then use the graphic/comic creation site Pixton.com to create a graphic strip of three or more panels to demonstrate their understanding of the excerpts.