Introduction Lesson Plans
Lunchroom Fight I SPANISH Lunchroom Fight II SPANISH Evaluating Source Information SPANISH Evaluating Photographs SPANISH Make Your Case! Snapshot Autobiography SPANISH Intro to the Work of Historians Evaluating Historical Sources SPANISH NEW Using Historical Thinking Skills: American RevolutionNEW Using Historical Thinking Skills: Westward ExpansionNEWDIGITAL Using Historical Thinking Skills: The Gilded AgeNEW Using Historical Thinking Skills: Progressive EraNEW How to Evaluate Online Sources about History SPANISH DIGITAL NEW How to Verify Historical Claims on Social Media SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Senior Prank SPANISH NEW
Historical Thinking Classroom Posters & Charts
U.S. History
Unit 1: Colonial
Pocahontas SPANISH The First Thanksgiving Mini Lessons SPANISH The Puritans Examining Colonial Passenger Lists Mapping the New World King Philip's War Salem Witch Trials Portola Expedition California Missions SPANISH Great Awakening
Unit 2: Revolutionary and Early America
Burr-Hamilton Duel SPANISH NEW Stamp Act SPANISH American Revolution SAC SPANISH Boston Massacre SPANISHUPDATED Battle of Lexington SPANISHUPDATED Loyalists NEW Declaration of IndependenceShays' Rebellion Slavery in the Constitution Federalists and Anti-Federalists Hamilton v. Jefferson
Unit 3: Expansion/Slavery
Second Middle Passage Slavery Narratives Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark SAC African American Inventor DIGITAL NEW Native American Mission Revolt SPANISH NEW First African American Newspaper SPANISH Texas Revolution Manifest Destiny SPANISH The Gold Rush and San Francisco SPANISH Susie King Taylor NEWSPANISHIrish in 19th-Century America SPANISH Evaluating Sources on Mexican California: Who Was Juana Briones? Overland Trails SPANISH NEW Fugitive Slave Act SPANISH NEW
Unit 4: Civil War and Reconstruction
Susie King Taylor NEWSPANISHWho Was Biddy Mason? John Brown's Motivation SPANISH Fort Sumter Civil War Photographs SPANISH Emancipation SPANISH Reconstruction SAC Radical Reconstruction Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln SPANISH Historical Photos of Chinese Railroad Workers SPANISH NEW Thomas Nast's Political Cartoons SPANISH UPDATED Verifying Historical Claims on Social Media SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Reconstruction Massacre SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Intro to Lateral Reading with Reconstruction Sources SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Sharecropping Frances Rollin Whipper and Reconstruction SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Freedmen's Schools - coming soon! DIGITAL
Unit 5: The Gilded Age
Battle of Little Bighorn UPDATED Great Railroad Strike of 1877 SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Native American Boarding School Chinese Immigration and Exclusion SPANISH Great Plains Homesteaders SPANISH Albert Parsons SAC Tribal Land Policies Homestead Strike UPDATED Pullman Strike SPANISH UPDATED Populism and William Jennings Bryan The White Supremacy Campaign: North Carolina's 1898 Election
Unit 6: American Imperialism
Unit 7: Progressive Era
Background on Woman Suffrage Jacob Riis's Tenement Photos SPANISH Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois The Liberator and the Black Press Historical Chinatown Photos SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Political Bosses Japanese Segregation in San Francisco UPDATED Upton Sinclair's The Jungle SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Child Labor SPANISH Settlement House Movement SAC Angel Island Immigration Station SPANISH NEW Edward Curtis's Photos of Piegan Blackfeet SPANISH Anti-Suffragists Women's Movement in the 20th Century SPANISH
Unit 8: World War I and the 1920s
Women's Movement in the 20th Century SPANISH Historical Photographs of African Americans SPANISH Great Migration U.S. Entry into WWI Sedition in WWI World War I Films SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Evaluating Online Sources: Porvenir Massacre DIGITAL Chicago Race Riots of 1919 Prohibition SPANISH Marcus Garvey League of Nations SPANISH Palmer Raids SPANISH First Wave of Mexican Migration SPANISH NEW Palmer Raids and Constitutional Rights SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Mexicans in the U.S. in the 1920s SPANISH Scopes Trial Sacco and Vanzetti SPANISH
Unit 9: New Deal and World War II
Tribal Land Policies Women's Movement in the 20th Century SPANISH Historical Photographs of African Americans SPANISH The Dust Bowl Mexican Migration in the 1930s SPANISH Verifying Online Claims about the Great Depression SPANISH DIGITAL NEW City Pool Desegregation SPANISH NEW New Deal SAC Social Security Migrant Mother Photograph SPANISH Japanese American Incarceration Ansel Adams at Manzanar SPANISH Japanese American Resistance to Incarceration SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Zoot Suit Riots SPANISH After the Great Migration SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Tule Lake Uprising NEW The Atomic Bomb
Unit 10: Cold War
The Cold War The Korean War Truman and MacArthur Cold War in Guatemala Castro and the United States SPANISH Cuban Missile Crisis Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Unit 11: Cold War Culture/Civil Rights
Tribal Land Policies Women's Movement in the 20th Century SPANISH Jim Crow Era Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Civil Rights Movement Photos SPANISH NAACP Letters SPANISH Public Housing Women in the 1950s Second Red Scare and the Supreme Court SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Montgomery Bus Boycott Little Rock Nine SPANISH Albany Movement NEW John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights SPANISH Great Society Anti-Vietnam War Movement Chicano Student Walkouts of 1968 SPANISH NEW Stonewall Riots The Black Power Movement Equal Rights Amendment DIGITAL Farmworker Movement SPANISH NEW Watergate 1973 Chile Coup DIGITAL Verifying Online Claims about Native American History SPANISH DIGITAL NEW Pardon of Nixon SAC The 1974 Puerto Rican Riots SPANISH DIGITAL NEW
Unit 12: Late 1900s and Early 2000s
World History Lessons
Unit 1: Ancient
Hammurabi's Code Egyptian Pyramids Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem Roman Republic Athenian Democracy SAC - update coming soon! DIGITAL Battle of Thermopylae Confucianism and Daoism Fall of the Qin Dynasty Women in the Han Dynasty DIGITAL NEW Ancient Kush NEW CleopatraUPDATED Augustus Roman Empire and Christianity Attila and Pope Leo
Unit 2: Medieval
The Dark Ages Expansion of the Islamic Empire First Crusade Teotihuacan SPANISH Maya Collapse DIGITAL NEW Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire SPANISHUPDATED Ibn Battuta in the Medieval Islamic World The Black Death in Florence Understanding the Black Death Inca Empire SPANISH Martin Luther Moctezuma and Cortés SPANISH Inca Emperor Atahualpa SPANISH Moctezuma's Zoo SPANISH Aztec Encyclopedia SPANISH La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico SPANISH DIGITAL Galileo Samurai NEW
Unit 3: Modern
Samurai NEW The Middle Passage - update coming soon! DIGITAL The Glorious Revolution SPANISH Enslavement in the Cape Colony, South Africa NEW Reign of Terror of the French Revolution Portola Expedition Life in English Textile Factories The Sepoy Rebellion The Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Adwa Battle of the Somme in WWI Russian Revolution NEW Russian Civil War NEW World War I Armistice SPANISH Atatürk and Women's Rights in Turkey Women's War in Colonial Nigeria Invasion of Nanjing UPDATED Appeasement of Nazi Aggression SPANISH Nazi Propaganda The Atomic Bomb Partition of India The Cold War The Korean War Cold War in Guatemala Castro and the United States SPANISH Assassination of Patrice Lumumba Cuban Missile Crisis China's Cultural RevolutionUPDATED 1973 Chile Coup DIGITAL Iran-Contra Affair DIGITAL Zapatista Uprising in Mexico SPANISH NEW