Curated OER
Active Viewing: Eyes on the Prize "Awakenings"
Dive deeper into the Montgomery Bus Boycott with this multi-stage lesson, centered on the essential question: Why did the boycott last so long? Historians investigate the Jim Crow south through a video clip (not included), then analyze...
Curated OER
Scaffolded Reading of "Drawing of an African Burial Ground Grave in Situ"
The class reads the description of the "Drawing of an African Burial Ground Grave In Situ" then completes a work sheet. They act like archaeologists and answer a series of critical thinking questions to better understand the historical...
Curated OER
Federal Holidays
Third graders complete various activities pertaining to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Veteran's Day. They conduct research and complete writing and art activities on the...
Curated OER
Personalities of the Renaissance
Have the class interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. They examine sources regarding architecture, art, exploration, government, literature, religion, and technology of the era. Then they use their...
Curated OER
Decline and Fall of the Romanov Dynasty of Russia
Use this quiz and let your class show what they know. There are seventeen multiple choice questions related to the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov Dynasty. Use to prep for a state exam or at the end of a unit.
Curated OER
Hoot: Bloom's Taxonomy- Questioning Strategy
What better way to examine a text than to ask your own questions? Use Bloom's taxonomy to guide kids through Carl Hiaasen's Hoot by asking questions based on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Novelinks
The Wednesday Wars: Concept Analysis
The Wednesday Wars is the focus of this resource designed for first-time teachers of Gary Schmidt's Newbery Award winning novel.
Indiana Historical Society
Lesson One – Vietnam War Time Line
To prepare for an in-depth study of the Vietnam Era, class members research and create a timeline that tracks the United States' involvement in Southeast Asia and especially Vietnam.
Curated OER
Pronoun Agreement
The underlined pronouns in 20 sentences need correction because they don't agree with their antecedents. Your emerging copy editors provide the correct pronoun. The worksheet can be printed or used interactively online. Check to make...
Curated OER
Passive Voice
The definition of passive voice is given along with tips to identify whether a sentence is written in this form. With one slide for the title and one for the end, the remaining four slides include the definition and a different tip on...
Curated OER
"Jazz is About Freedom": Billie Holiday's Anti-lynching Song Strange Fruit
Working in small teams, learners analyze a variety of primary source materials related to lynching (news articles, letters written to or written by prominent Americans, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.) in order to assess the effectiveness of...
Curated OER
The 99% Movement - Linking Math to Economics
Connecting mathematics with economics can be a liberating force for all involved.
Curated OER
Learning to Respect Each Other
Discover how important Martin Luther King Jr. is to our society. In this civil rights lesson plan, investigate how Dr. King was an advocate for nonviolence and how he fought for civil rights for all Americans. Read and analyze Dr. King's...
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Who Won? Student Protest and Politics of Campus Dissent
Explore American college students' political views, convictions, and concerns in the midst of the war in Vietnam through several articles, images, further reading, and writing assignments. Student protests on campuses across the nation...
University of Michigan
Bentley Historical Library: A Decade of Dissent: Student Protests at Michigan
Information and analysis on the student-led resistance to the war in Vietnam at the University of Michigan.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Students for a Democratic Society
Primary source documents and texts related to the Students For a Democratic Society movement, a student protest group in the 1960s. All materials can be downloaded.
BBC
Bbc: Mass Student Protests in Colombia
This article discusses the mass protests occurring in Colombia concerning the policies of President Juan Manuel Santos. (April 7, 2011)
New York University
Sds: Students for a Democratic Society
Resource offers annotated explanation of a number of university student protest organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society and its chapter at New York University in 1965.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Port Huron Statement: Students for a Democratic Society
The text of the Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: The Umbrella Movement: Protests in Hong Kong
Learning module uses multi-media sources to teach about the relationship between China and Hong Kong. Students use primary source material to analyze the recent protests in Hong Kong and explore the symbols and messages that protesters...
Bill of Rights Institute
Bill of Rights Institute: Occupy Protests and the Bill of Rights
A lesson plan and extension activities focused on the Occupy Protests which began in 2011. Young scholars will explore the goal of the protests in relationship to the Bill of Rights.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Revolution '67, Lesson 1: Protest: Why and How
In this lesson plan, students examine the reasons for protests by reading about the riots in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967. By using primary source documents, learn historical reasons for protesting and compare them with the situation in...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Student Activism
A good look at the student activism of the Students for a Democratic Society and the philosophy behind this organization.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Music: A Vehicle for Wartime Protest
In this lesson, young scholars will examine music during wartime protests. Students will analyze a wartime protest song and present it to the class. Includes a PowerPoint presentation discussing music as a primary source and links to...