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Truth in Transit: Crafting Meaningful Field Trips

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Using the premise of a mystery, elementary students act as history detectives as they explore a historical question and formulate and test hypotheses.

Mystery Strategy for Elementary Students

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Spotlight on Elementary Education

History is made by those who are unafraid to push the envelope and redefine the society in which they live. Encourage your students to examine the men and women who worked to make America what it is today with this creative activity. FIND OUT MORE »

Lesson Plan Reviews

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American Tourists and the Holy Land, 1865-1900

Help students make connections between religion, technology, and [...] »

Propaganda and World War II

Help students understand wartime propaganda with this excellent lesson plan [...] »

English Language Learners

Instructional strategies and resources for ELL

Bracero History Archive

Explore resources on the Bracero guest worker program from the mid-20th [...] »

Reframing English Language Development

Discover how to teach English learners history and historical thinking.

Teaching Guides

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Tramping Through History: Crafting Individual Field Trips

Go forth, and contextualize! Give students the opportunity for solo [...] »

Mystery Strategy for Elementary Students

Using the premise of a mystery, elementary students act as history [...] »

Rethinking "Westward Expansion": A Guide for Preservice Teachers

Help students reconsider the how the expansion of the United States from [...] »

Webquest, Inquiry, and Lincoln’s Views on Technology

Searching for new, exciting ways to engage your students in the classroom? [...] »

Free Speech Teaching Guide 2: Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): Defining and Arguing Hate Speech

This teaching guide includes a structured guide to explaining the case [...] »

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Multiperspectivity: What Is It, and Why Use It?

Simply pondering "multiperspectivity" (a European term for "multiple [...] »

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