In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American World War I heroes. They analyze period ...

In this lesson, students learn how the life of an enslaved person changed from the Antebellum period through Emancipation. They analyze primary source documents in order to create a timeline of an ...

This lesson explores the rise and fall of the Reconstruction-era Freedman's Savings Bank. The lesson, which features historian Justene Hill Edwards speaking at the Un ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of North Florida professor and author Nick Seabrook talked about Elbridge Gerry, gerrymandering, and the Massachusetts elections of 1812.

This first lesson could begin with the question "What does migration mean?" The word migration may stimulate responses dealing with migratory birds and animals. Explain to the children that such ...

Advanced reading by the teacher of the resource "Genocide" from Jill Rutter, Refugees: We Left Because We Had To (London, Refugee Council, 1996), pp. 75-77. Also see "Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region ...

He was the author of “A People’s History of the United States,” a book that teaches ... The Zinn Education Project, which pushes controversial resources and lesson plans to teachers, is being adopted ...

NEW BEDFORD — It's often said that the way to one's heart is through the stomach. Throw the mind — and soul — in the mix, and that's the thinking behind an upcoming Black History Month lesson to be ...

Education technology companies are increasingly promoting artificial intelligence as a way to save teachers’ time—especially when it comes to lesson planning. But when it comes to crafting engaging ...