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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History What is 'Gilder Lehrman'?  Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization which focuses on history education for grades K-12, as well as some services for the public. They have over 70,000 documents to use, as well as a variety of lesson plans. What Is It Good For?  Gilder Lehrman has a search engine for lesson plans, videos, and essays, primarily.  You have to choose either a time period, content type, topic, or keyword. There is also a search engine for just sources.  What Would A Typical Class Using 'Gilder Lehrman' Look Like?  Any sources you use from the collection provide the following information: summary of the item, people associated with the item, historical era, keywords and subjects, and the "sub era"— or, the more specific time period. Here is an example. Each lesson (hyperlinked is an example lesson) begins with a couple of essential questions— to ...

DocsTeach and Archives.gov What are 'DocsTeach' and 'The National Archive'?  DocsTeach is a website which puts its focus on primary documents. It categorizes them so they can easily be found with keywords, and they are ever expanding. There are currently more than 10,000 documents on their website. The website also offers some lesson plans revolving around specific documents. Archives.gov comes hand in hand with DocsTeach, as they are connected. The National Archives has a section for educator resources, where you will find a number of different helpful resources. Among these are National History Day resources, working with primary sources worksheets, and opportunities for visiting students in the classroom. What Is It Good For?  DocsTeach is best for its primary documents , and the lesson guides that come with them. On their lesson plans, they even have a classification system that includes the lesson's placement on Bloom's Taxonomy, what hi...

Stanford History Education Group "SHEG" What is the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)? The Stanford History Education Group (or, SHEG) is a website run and contributed to by Stanford staff, students, faculty, and visiting scholars. SHEG provides a number of resources for teachers, including pre-made lessons and pre-made assessments (with rubrics!). What Is It Good For?  SHEG is best used for their pre-made lessons, which include historical subjects as well as civic subjects. Each lesson plan introduces the topic effectively, outlines some things to discuss, and provides worksheets. They are somewhat bare bones at times, allowing the teacher plenty of room to expand and change around what they need. What Would A Typical Class Using 'SHEG' Look Like? This would be a great resource at a time when you are unsure/unable to plan your own in depth lesson in order to get a great foundation for a subject/concept you are teaching. You are given bas...

Facing History What is Facing History? Facing History places a priority on educating students on subjects that deal heavily in racism, prejudice, and antisemitism. Facing History believes that educating students on these subjects will create a "more humane and informed citizenry". These lessons are essential not only to inform students of our world's history of oppression as well as to potentially act as a preventative measure. Facing History offers educator resources (lesson plans, library with ebooks, activity and classroom engagement strategies) as well as professional development opportunities (workshops, courses, seminars, webinars...).  What Is It Good For?  Facing History has a large database of lessons, units, books, and feature collections stored in each 'topic' — time period or overarching theme. The units, lessons, books, and feature collections are well thought out and engaging. The website also has a large database of teaching strateg...