PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Election Collection: Election Central 2016
This is a collection of classroom resources to engage students during the 2016 Presidential elections. These include links to news, debates in the classroom, the election process, lesson plans, historical presidential speeches, etc.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: So You Want to Be President?
This project-based learning project extends classroom learning with a variety of multimedia tools to conduct an engaging election campaign for the Presidency. Students form political parties, write a platform, and conduct a campaign for...
Other
I*earn (International Education and Resource Network)
This nonprofit organization creates structured projects that facilitate engaged learning and youth making a difference on an International scale. Project areas include interdisciplinary topics such as the environment/science,...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Cheka
An explanation of what the Cheka was and the activities they engaged in to quell opposition under Lenin's rule.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Analyzing Gubernatorial Debates: The 2010 Election
This technology-based lesson encourages active engagement in the state electoral process. Students collaborate on a wiki designed to aid in analyzing candidates' responses in a gubernatorial debate. Pre-debate and post-debate activties...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: American Imperialism: The Spanish American War
This primary set uses photographs, letters, posters, and publications to explore the Spanish-American War. Review the sources in this set to gain insight into the motivations for US engagement. Includes teaching guide.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Globalization
Inquiry based resource for 3rd grade students engages them in exploring the social, political and economic relationships in a global world and increases their understanding of worldwide interconnectedness.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Read Like a Historian: Civil War Reconstruction
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the Civil War and Reconstruction unit, learners engage in contentious historiographic debates about the period: Was Lincoln a racist? Was Reconstruction a success or failure? Was John Brown a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Election Central: Election Collection
This is a collection of 21 election-related resources to help teachers engage students in the political process and spark discussion.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Connecting: Making of African American Identity: V. 3
An article that makes a case for black engagement with the American political system. This resource provides a link to Bayard Rustin's "From Protest to Politics", where he encourages African Americans to begin a "revolution through the...
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: William Jefferson Clinton (1946 )
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, an automobile-parts salesman, died in a car accident three months before Bill was born. His mother, Virginia Cassidy, married Roger...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Content Area Literacy: History
The ability to read historical documents including contemporary explications about societal, economic and political issues provides a direct link to literacy as preparation for citizenship. As in the other disciplines, schools are unique...
Other
Rock the Vote
Rock the Vote engages youth in the political process by incorporating the entertainment community and youth culture into its activities. This site includes information about current campaigns, issues, voting, a voter registration form,...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Rap as Lyrical Poetry
Here is an excellent way to engage your students in the study of poetry; use rap! PBS provides the materials you will need. Students will examine central themes, hip hop culture, political, social and cultural events that may have...
iCivics
I Civics: Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
This mini-lesson covers the basics of the Supreme Court's decision that extended First Amendment protections to young scholars in the classroom. Students learn about the concept of symbolic speech and how young scholars gained the right...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: The Rover: An Introduction
Aphra Behn's The Rover engages with the social, political, and sexual conditions of the 17th century, as well as with theatrical traditions of carnival and misrule. The article introduces Behn's play and explores how it was first...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade K: Needs and Wants
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they identify and provide examples of elements of an economic system, with an emphasis on wants and needs. Students engage with the sources to build their...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade K: George Washington
This instructional task asks students to identify an American leader from the past and to explain the significance of his contributions. It contains a set of authentic source documents. Students engage with the sources to build their...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade K: American Flag
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing in which they identify and provide examples of American symbols, with an emphasis on the American Flag and the connection to Flag Day. Students engage with the sources...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: Spread of World Religions
This instructional task asks young scholars to explain the impact that religion had on cultural diffusion in the Eastern Hemisphere. It contains a set of authentic source documents. Students engage with the sources to build their...
World War 1
Worldwar1.com: Trenches on the Web: Czar Nicholas Ii of Russia
A brief biography of Nicholas II written by students. Focuses mainly on his political life starting with his engagement to Alexandria.
PBS
Now With Bill Moyers: Voting
A instructional activity for examining governmental influences in everyday life. Students analyze a report focusing on a democracy reform effort and predict the impact of suggested reforms. They then strategize on ways to overcome a...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Ethnolinguistic Groups of China, 1971
" Ethnolinguistic Groups - Almost all inhabitants of mainland China are of Mongoloid stock, and ethnic distinctions in the country are largely linguistic rather than racial. The Han comprise nearly 95 percent of the population; the...