Newsela: War and Peace. Historical Thinking Matters: home page. Digital Public Library of America. Center for History and New Media. Sea of Liberty Providing interactive tools for teaching, exploring, and sharing the power of Jefferson’s ideas across cultures and borders.
Learn More | Visit the Site 100 Leaders. Teaching Tolerance: Classroom Resources. This lesson explores the debate about whether public schools, which typically close on major Christian and Jewish holidays, should also shutter for important celebrations in other faiths.
This debate is relevant in many cities, districts and states. The activities ask students to think critically about the question and identify multiple points of view before forming their own opinions and proposing possible solutions and/or compromises. This lesson is based on the following news stories: “Should public schools close for Muslim holidays?” Reading Like A Historian. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry.
Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues. Library of Congress Home. Teachinghistory.org. Free Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics. Historypin. Smithsonian.