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Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities
Date Posted: 4/16/2018

Head to Head invites students to think deeply about how American history has been shaped in countless ways by people in different eras and from diverse backgrounds.

The learning begins with the guiding question: Who changed American more? This simple question has no one right answer and can open up new ways of understanding how the nation was shaped into what it is today. Through a sports-playoff-style bracket, students make their case, debate matchups, and ultimately choose who they think shaped America the most.
Since the founding of the American republic, when the power of the nation was entrusted not in a monarchy but in its citizens, each generation has questioned and considered how to form "a more perfect union." The American Experiments suite of educational games builds off of this question by challenging students to think about their roles and responsibilities within their democracy.

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Head to Head invites students to think deeply about how American history has been shaped in countless ways by people in different eras and from diverse backgrounds. The learning begins with the guiding question: Who changed American more?

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On The Water - a resource from Smithsonian Institute about US history as a maritime nation

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On The Water - a resource from Smithsonian Institute about US history as a maritime nation

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Shared by Rachel Galliani

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Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Kenneth E. Behring Center

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Educational resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ready made Lessons to drive excellence in Humanities Education!

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Teaching A People's History: Zinn Education

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Teaching A People's History: Zinn Education

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Searchable by content, time period, resource type. Lesson plans available

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The Zinn Education Project is my compass in a sea of corporate textbooks, packaged common core curriculum and standardized testing. My entire curriculum is based on lessons that can be found on the Zinn Education Project.

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From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the stakes are high. It is critical that students learn about the fight for voting rights, past and present.

Nov. 30, 1924: Shirley Chisholm Born...

Teaching About the Violence in Palestine and Israel...

I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

-Howard Zinn

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Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

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The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

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Huge collection of cultural and historical artifacts. Collections curated by staff are very useful

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DPLA provides free digital access to banned books

DPLA has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned via the free Palace e-reader app.

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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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Able to curate resources for student, lesson plan use.

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What will you find in the Smithsonian Learning Lab?

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What will you find in the Smithsonian Learning Lab? Resources Millions of Smithsonian digital images, recordings, texts, and videos in history, art and culture, and the sciences Collections Thousands of examples of resources organized and structured for teaching and learning by educators and subject experts Resources Millions of Smithsonian digital images, recordings, texts, and videos in history, art and culture, and the sciences Collections Thousands of examples of resources organized and structured for teaching and learning by educators and subject experts Who uses the Learning Lab?

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Support for Smithsonian's History Explorer is provided by the Verizon Foundation

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Excellent resources for how to use different types of primary sources with your students

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Request military records and learn about other services for yourself or a family member.

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FREE Account for materials. Lessons and Assessments available. Searchable by topic and historical skill

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Searchable by Standards. This website contains a wealth of knowledge, but even for experienced users can be hard to navigate. Using already curated primary source sets, or links like Chronicling America, are easy for students.

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The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Getting Started with Primary Sources

Explore short videos on using resources and teaching strategies for using primary sources in the classroom.

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About This Program | Teachers | Programs | Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. Getting Started with Primary Sources Explore short videos on using resources and teaching strategies for using primary sources in the classroom.

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California Education and the Environment Initiative

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California Education and the Environment Initiative

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Social Studies and Science Curriculum for grades 1-12 in both areas. Printable student workbooks, teacher's guides, etc.

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Curriculum - California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI)

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Home page for the Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) Curriculum. Includes a program overview and links to downloadable curriculum files and training opportunities for teachers.

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Understanding how school discipline policies can contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline is essential for educators and families. Harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline can push young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. But educators, parents and caregivers can help to change this harmful system by advocating for and implementing practices that prioritize mental health and well-being.

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Learning for Justice | Education Resources

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Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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The AMPU NorCal site has resources linked to the lessons being taught by our scholars. They are organized by Sessions.

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User account | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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The Pace-Gilder Lehrman MA in American History Program is now accepting applications! Click here

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Create a classroom, add pre-
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Larry Ferlazzo checked Zoom In out and liked how we've made primary sources accessible to students with diverse needs. "Clearly [they] have been very intentional about choosing primary source documents that are likely to be more accessible to students and then have made them even more accessible with their lay-out and easy ability to look-up word definitions. I haven't really seen any other site that has been able to do this anywhere near as well as Zoom In!"

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Larry Ferlazzo checked Zoom In out and liked how we've made primary sources accessible to students with diverse needs. "Clearly [they] have been very intentional about choosing primary source documents that are likely to be more accessible to students and then have made them even more accessible with their lay-out and easy ability to look-up word definitions.

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Crowdsourcing to make history accessible and realative.

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Engage with National Geographic Explorers and transform learning experiences through live events, free maps, videos, interactives, and other resources.

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Historical Atlas
Very cool interactive maps

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American Panorama is created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers serve as editors. Justin Madron manages the project's spatial data. Nathaniel Ayers leads the design work. Scott Nesbit served as associate editor until 2017.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Richmond have generously provided funding for American Panorama. Stamen Design developed the software for this project.

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American Panorama is created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers serve as editors. Justin Madron manages the project's spatial data. Nathaniel Ayers leads the design work. Scott Nesbit served as associate editor until 2017. The Andrew W.

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Lesson/Resource search is limited to subject and type, not searchable by grade level. Good selection of Teaching Strategies.

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"I believe in the power of Facing History."

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Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

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Has K-12 downloadable lesson plans, interactives and videos by Rachel Galliani

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California History Social Science Project

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California History Social Science Project

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California History-Social Science Project units of study- 7th grade: Sites of Encounter in the Medieval World; 8th grade: Civil War; 10th grade World History & 11th grade US History: The Cold War. suggested by Rachel Galliani

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http://chssp.ucdavis.edu), and indicate if any changes were made. Educators may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the University or the California or the California History-Social Science Project endorses said teacher, school, or related organization.

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Rich historical maps of the US

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Enter the Atlas Table of Contents

A spectacular historical atlas refashioned for the 21st century

Here you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps. Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data-remarkable maps produced eight decades ago with the functionality of the twenty-first century.

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Georectified Maps

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Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States

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Enter the Atlas Table of Contents Here you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps.