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
Declaration of Independence 
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely,[...] »
Civil War's Causes: Historians Largely United on Slavery, But Public Divided 
Major historic events are always shrouded in controversy. Check out this[...] »
Post-1865
Reconstruction 
This video produced by Annenberg Media offers a comprehensive look at the[...] »
Flint Sit-Down Strike 
Provides a multimedia introduction to "the greatest strike in American[...] »
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
Geo-Literacy Project: Students Explore Their World
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and[...] »