Fall Freebies

Free Upcoming Professional Development

We're pleased to be offering free professional development this fall to help you teach students how to evaluate online information effectively. Learn more about our free upcoming webinars and online courses.

Free Classroom Materials

Below is a list of free classroom materials we've made over the last couple years.

New Reading Like a Historian lessons
  •  Senior Prank
  •  Intro to the Work of Historians: Biddy Mason
  •  Intro to the Work of Historians: Frances Rollin Whipper (coming soon!)
  •  Intro to Lateral Reading with Reconstruction Sources (coming soon!)
  •  Evaluating Photographs
  •  Kingdom of Meroë 
  •  Samurai
  •  The Glorious Revolution
  •  Chumash Revolt (coming soon!)
  •  Fugitive Slave Act (coming soon!)
  •  Overland Trails (coming soon!)
  •  Biddy Mason
  •  Emancipation
  •  Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
  •  Verifying Online Claims About Reconstruction (coming soon!)
  •  Thomas Nast
  •  Camilla Massacre (coming soon!)
  •  Battle of Little Bighorn
  •  Great Railroad Strike of 1877 (coming soon!)
  •  Tribal Land Policies
  •  Historical Photos of Chinatown (coming soon!)
  •  Russian Civil War
  •  Angel Island (coming soon!)
  •  Marcus Garvey
  •  Historical Photos of African Americans
  •  The Liberator and the Black Press
  •  Desegregation of Los Angeles City Pools (coming soon!)
  •  Zoot Suit Riots
  •  Women's Movement in the 20th Century
  •  The Black Power Movement
  •  Watergate
  •  Pardon of Richard Nixon SAC
  •  Zapatista Uprising

New Beyond the Bubble History Assessments
  •  Atahualpa and de Soto
  •  Florentine Codex
  •  Boston Massacre
  •  Federalists vs. Antifederalists
  •  Election of 1860
  •  Frederick Douglass Wikipedia (coming soon!)
  •  Lee's Testimony
  •  Colfax Massacre (coming soon!)
  •  Reconstruction
  •  Online Reconstruction Source (coming soon!)
  •  TikTok Reconstruction Claim (coming soon!)
  •  Albert Parsons (coming soon!)
  •  Bimetallism
  •  Chinatown Image (coming soon!)
  •  Tribal Land Policies
  •  First Wave of Mexican Migration (coming soon!)
  •  Federal Labor Relations
  •  Paris Exposition
  •  UNIA vs. NAACP
  •  20th Century Spain
  •  U.S. Policies on Mexican Migration
  •  U.S.-China Relations
  •  Cuban Missile Crisis
  •  Vietnam War
  •  Women's Liberation 
  •  Watergate Testimony
  •  Gasoline Lines

New Reading Like a Historian Spanish language translations
  •  Senior Prank (coming soon!)
  •  Aztec Encyclopedia
  •  The Glorious Revolution
  •  Chumash Revolt (coming soon!)
  •  Emancipation
  •  Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
  •  Camilla Massacre (coming soon!)
  •  Thomas Nast
  •  Great Plains Homesteaders
  •  Hawaiian Annexation
  •  Historical Photos of African Americans in Los Angeles
  •  First Wave of Mexican Migration (coming soon!)
  •  Prohibition
  •  Sacco and Vanzetti
  •  Desegregation of Los Angeles City Pools (coming soon!)
  •  NAACP Letters
  •  Zoot Suit Riots
  •  Little Rock Nine
  •  Women's Movement in the 20th Century
  •  AIDS Crisis
  •  Zapatista Uprising

New Civic Online Reasoning Materials
  •  Classroom Posters in English and Spanish
         - Lateral Reading classroom poster
         - Click Restraint classroom poster
         - Attention Conservation classroom poster
  •  Teaching Click Restraint curriculum collection
  •  Module for High School
  •  Module for Middle School
  •  Evaluating Videos Tasks
  •  Webpage Comparison Tasks
         - Criminal Justice Reform Parallel
         - Football Concussions Parallel
  •  Professional Resource: Civic Online Reasoning in Your Teaching Context
  •  Professional Resource: Civic Online Reasoning Current Events Template
  •  Professional Resource: Locating Examples of Online Sources for Instruction