Local Heroes | National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Lesson plan for younger students, be sure to follow the link which provides an age-appropriate description of the event. (though with a NY focus) Lesson uses a New Yorke cover
Local Heroes | National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Lower elementary lesson highlighting heros
What Happened on 9/11?, Part I | National September 11 Memorial & Museum
This 6 though 12 lesson plan deal just with the details of the day itself, starting with a chart of what they know and what they want to know. This could serve as a means to a lesson that takes us from public memory - to what really happened. 3 minute video included and interactive timeline. As this is a lesson that focuses on the event itself, it is possible that some students will get be affected emotionally by the lesson, teacher should take care
The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States | NEH-Edsitement
The Middle-Class Squeeze - Center for American Progress
US History teachers looking for an end-of-the-year lesson that will act as a gateway for students out of the past and into the present/future of the United States could easily farm some charts from this report, and condense them into a wealth disparity lesson - how will the country accommodate these inequities?
ILW.COM - immigration news: Time To Rethink Immigration (II): Freeing America From The Immigration Gulag
History teachers who spend time with students exploring anti-immigration sentiment in the 1840s, 1890s, and 1920s do their students a great disservice if they don't also touch on anti-immigration in the early 1990s, This could be mined for DBQ material - Peter Brimlow's "Alien Nation" sold 37,000 hardcover copies in 1992
Opinion | Elon Musk Is Buying Twitter. Shudder. - The New York Times
This editorial author has a long list of Bona Fides to clearly establish his institutional authority as a "reliable source". Yet despite the clear connections me makes between the past and present, most teachers would avoid assigning this to students because wouldn't want to risk using such strongly worded materials in class. But that's what makes it an excellent teaching vehicle. Assign this, read and discuss - then fact check. Perfect exercise for a Gilded Age lesson
Mr. Nasaw is the author of “Andrew Carnegie” and “The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy.”
Quick wiki-check shows the author's credits - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nasaw
TITLE IX: Striving for Gender Equity in Athletics | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
resourcesforhistoryteachers / 2000 Presidential Election
Lesson Five: The Obama Administration - The Challenge of Change - Lessons - Kunhardt Film Foundation
Although there may be other lessons here, the video clips on birtherism can serve as an important element in a lesson exploring the challenges to Barack Obama's presidency
Source Notes- The Parrot and the Igloo Notes
The source notes for this book that traces the history of climate science provides a treasure trove of primary source documents for a climate change DBQ