This activity was produced in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the TPS at Metropolitan State University of Denver. This activity will allow learners to: Demonstrate an understanding of the civil rights movement in Alaska and the role Elizabeth Peratrovich played in making that happen during the territorial days in Alaska.
Material Type: Lesson
North Idaho has long been known as the former home to the Aryan Nations compound. This lesson explores the history of North Idaho and how that history might influence the current climate in our small community.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
From the 1960s to the 1990s, economically-disadvantaged school districts, primarily Latino, in Texas struggled to gain more adequate funding for their children's education. At first halted by a Supreme Court ruling, one leader gained additional support and continued pressing the issue, with the result that eventually the Court reversed its stance and required the state to develop a more equitable funding plan.Students will consider the historic actions taken by the communities and the Court and how their own community action can and should make a difference.
Material Type: Case Study
This lesson plan introduces learners to the historical facts of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921, using primary resources from the Library of Congress.
Material Type: Case Study
This activity was produced in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the TPS at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. This activity allows learners to examine and listen to first-hand accounts and primary sources images of history during the Civil Right time period. This activity will allow learners to develop empathy and understanding of:why someone might feel they should protest or stand up for their beliefs.how we can interact and respect others who may be different or have experiences we cannot fully understand.
Material Type: Lesson
This resource will provide multiple primary source documents of photographs for an initial activity and extension activities as well as secondary source article and teacher resource documents. Students will conduct inquiry into the federal policies of assimilation of Native Americans in the late 1800s and early 1900s and the imipact of these policies on Native American communities, in particular the people of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Primary Source
This activity was produced in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the TPS at Metropolitan State University of Denver. This activity will allow learners to:Draw conclusions about relocation centers used during WW2 in the western US.Analyze primary resources using a question method to discover details.Discuss the concept of fear and why others may be treated differently due to fear and prejudice. Short lesson plan introducing Japanese American relocation centers (or internment camps) using primary resources from Library of Congress. The lesson focuses on a newspaper article about the center in Hunt, Idaho and a photo of a toddler from the Manzanar camp. Can be used before teaching the book Farewell to Manzanar.
Material Type: Lesson
Title IX has made it so that Girls can do anything they dream to do. Also, boys can do anything also. It doesn't matter what that dream might be.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This activity was produced in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the TPS at Metropolitan State University of Denver. This activity will allow learners toinvestigate and explain how different groups of people were treated in the past, and the ways in which that treatment changed over timeidentify injustice in multiple formsidentify ways in which groups become marginalizedThis lesson leads students through several major events in the history of the Cheyenne & Arapaho tribes, and asks that they use primary source documents to describe the ways in which the treatment and perception of the tribes changed over time in southern Colorado.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This activity was produced in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the TPS at Metropolitan State University of Denver. This activity allows learners to examine and look at migrant workers who first came to California during the Bracero Program using primary resources to develop an understanding of why and how they came to California to work. Students will also study the timeline from the Bracero Program's beginning to its end and the appearance of the United Farm Workers Union. This study will lead students to a realization of why the UFW was necessary and what Cesar Chavez's impact was.This activity will allow learners to analyze and understand:* The hopes and dreams of those migrant workers from Mexico who came and continue coming to California to work.* The opposite of hope is fear – and how fear can destroy hope.* The ways that hope can overcome fear.
Material Type: Lesson
All standards are here - https://sites.google.com/view/humanstory/micro-view-of-project/competencies-universal-constructs-and-enduring-understandings The website overall contains everything needed to participate and see the learning.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This unit of study consisits of 5 activities to investigate the effects of Native American Boarding Schools on the individual, the family, and the community. Students will analyze before and after pictures of indigenous students, primary source comments given by boarding school survivors, and historic newspapers to asertain attitudes towards Native Americans during this time period. Middle school students will conclude with a short writing assignment. Secondary students will prepare an essay that relates the attitudes of the time to the practices in Native American Boarding Schools. This is an emotionally difficult subject and special care should be taken if you have Native students in your classrooms, as this topic is traumatic for families who have survived this experience. See Multicultural Considerations before beginning.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan, Primary Source, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study
The Galveston hurricane of 1900 and its effects on Texas' political, economic, and social development will be discussed in this lesson. With many immigrant families still in the greater Galveston/Houston area, they don’t realize how something like this can impact those that are new to an area or don’t have the financial stability as others.
Material Type: Case Study, Homework/Assignment
This activity was produced in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the TPS at Metropolitan State University of Denver. This activity will allow learners to look with with empathy, respect and understanding:prohibition and the war on drugsthe historical and present day challenges these present for economically disadvantaged individuals
Material Type: Lesson
This activity was produced in conjunction with The Library of Congress and the TPS at Metropolitan State University of Denver. This activity will allow learners to explore How The Trail of Tears and continued Gentrification changed the landscape for economically disadvantaged people in North Georgia using Primary Sources, Minecraft Education and Microsoft Flip.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson
Using primary sources from the Library of Congress students can interact with a Flip ( audio or visual) response to share their connections and insights to the sources presented.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students in high school English or US History will use primary sources to learn about the women's suffrage movement.
Material Type: Assessment, Primary Source
