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Lesson Plan Reviews Introduction

Transcript Whether you’re new to the history classroom or have two decades behind you, we all know that a good lesson plan can help our students …

High School Introduction

Transcript Are you looking for a hook to teach about life in post-war America or strategies for teaching historical thinking skills? Wondering whether …

Middle School Introduction

Video Transcript Have you ever wondered how to teach about the lives of young immigrants in 19th-century America? How to help students understand the …

Elementary Introduction

Video Transcript Have you ever wondered who really attended the first Thanksgiving? How to use music to teach about the Civil War? Or thought about …

What is Historical Thinking?

Watch this introductory video (or download the transcript) for an overview of ways of thinking inherent in knowing and doing history. Historical …

Digital Classroom Introduction

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Issues & Practice Advisors James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Professor of Diversity Studies and Director of the Center for Multicultural …

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Founded in 1994, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is a leading national digital history center, making active use of the Web for …

Technical Working Group

Technical Working Group Barbara Ashbrook is a senior program officer in the Division of Education at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is …

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