Quicklinks for Middle School Teachers
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Teaching with Textbooks
I have used this activity with Native Americans and slavery with great success. I have worked over the years to collect a variety of old textbooks from different time periods.
—Anonymous
6-8 Resources
Pre-1865
1775 Colonial Newspaper Article 
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article[...] »
Constitution Day 2010 
Explore these online Constitution Day resources for September 17 and[...] »
Post-1865
What Does It Mean to Be an American? 
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or[...] »
Coal and the Industrial Revolution 
How can the story of coal help students understand the nature of today's[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents
Teach your students to read like a historian with this guided four-step[...] »
Using Technology
WhatWasThere
Put the past next to the present with this photo-sharing and mapping tool.[...] »