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Rubric Cover Sheets How To Instructions Below you will find links to and descriptions of all the assignments we use for Choose Your Own Adventure. Click on the individual assignment links to get the full instructions and printable worksheets. The assignments are divided into three categories

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Please contribute any resources, websites, videos, or great stuff you've found online that might support teachers - those who serve newcomers in particular.

Be sure to add a link and a brief description of the resource (if it's not obvious from the title).

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Spring 2024 Registration Is Open

K-12 educators can earn their graduate degree in this affordable, online, accredited program. It's easy to apply and become an enrolled student.

Upcoming Spring Semester Dates

Applications End: Thursday, January 25, 2024

Courses Start: Thursday, February 8, 2024

Course Registration Ends: Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Begin the application process now to join us this spring!

Study with world-renowned scholars, connect with other teachers from across the United States, and reinvigorate your enthusiasm for teaching history! Whatever your budget and interests, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has a professional development opportunity for you next summer.

Online Options: 10 Teacher Seminars

In-person Options: 12 options in 7 locations across 5 states

Historical Holiday Resources

Explore the history of Thanksgiving, from its origins through its evolution into a recognized federal holiday with essays, videos, lesson plans, and more.

Warfare in Early America

Join Professor Timothy Shannon of Gettysburg College to explore the evolution of warfare in North America from the earliest contact between Native Americans and Europeans through the early nineteenth century.

Regular Price: $39.99

Affiliate Price: $29.99

Competition and Lottery Now Open

The Hamilton Education Program Online is a free program that helps students in grades 6-12 see the relevance of the founding era by using primary sources to create a performance piece following the model used by Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the musical Hamilton.

Students in the program will have the chance to submit their performance piece and be selected to see a performance of Hamilton in New York City.

Congratulations, Bruce Henderson

Bruce Henderson has been awarded the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize for Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II. An event celebrating the winner and the shortlisted authors will take place on Monday, December 4. Attend in person or via the livestream.

Issue No. 68: "The Role of Spain in the American Revolution" (Fall 2023)

Explore the often-neglected story of Spain's crucial role in the American Revolutionary War with six essays by historians and additional Gilder Lehrman resources.

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MA in American History

Our master's degree program gives K-12 educators an affordable way to earn a graduate degree while working full time.

Self-Paced Courses

Explore American history from your own home, in your own time, and at your own pace! Educators can obtain professional development credit.

History U

These self-paced courses in American history are taught by the nation's top historians and are completely free for high school students.

Upcoming Events

NYC-area students and teachers: Join us at Trinity School for a special book talk on Frederick Douglass.

Join us to honor the winner of the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Bruce Henderson.

Q&A session for prospective students to learn about the Gettysburg College-Gilder Lehrman master's degree program

Upcoming Deadlines

Affiliate Schools, libraries, and other sites can host this exhibition for free in January and February.

Enter your EduHam Online creative piece for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to NYC to see a performance of Hamilton.

Publishers, agents, critics, and authors may submit or nominate books published in 2023.

Book Breaks

Every Sunday at 2:00 pm ET (11:00 am PT) on Zoom

Join us for our weekly interview series in which historians discuss their acclaimed books followed by a Q&A with the at-home audience. A Book Breaks subscription includes access to the weekly live programs and our ever-expanding archive, featuring 150+ episodes.

Book Breaks is completely free for all students, K-12 educators, and college professors. Others can purchase a one-year subscription for $25.

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Upcoming Episodes

Stacy Schiff

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Theresa Runstedtler, American University

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

Mark Whitaker

Saying It Loud: 1966-The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

Our Historical Documents

In 1991, Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman embarked on a mission to create one of the most important repositories of historical American documents in the country. Today, the Gilder Lehrman Collection contains 85,000+ items documenting the political, social, and economic history of the United States.

History Now

The Online Journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute

History Now features essays by the nation's leading historians and provides the latest in American history scholarship for teachers, students, and general readers.

History Now is completely free for all K-12 students and teachers. Others can purchase a one-year subscription for $25.

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"Their Full Measure"

Veterans Legacy Program: Online Exhibition

Gilder Lehrman is proud to announce the launch of this new online exhibition introducing viewers to nineteen men and women who served during six conflicts in American history.

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NYC-area students and teachers: Join us at Trinity School for a special book talk on Frederick Douglass.

Join us to honor the winner of the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Bruce Henderson.

Q&A session for prospective students to learn about the Gettysburg College-Gilder Lehrman master's degree program

Affiliate Schools, libraries, and other sites can host this exhibition for free in January and February.

Enter your EduHam Online creative piece for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to NYC to see a performance of Hamilton.

Publishers, agents, critics, and authors may submit or nominate books published in 2023.

Stacy Schiff

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Theresa Runstedtler, American University

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

Mark Whitaker

Saying It Loud: 1966-The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

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Welcome to the Oakland Unified School District's Newcomer Toolkit. This tool is intended to provide resources to OUSD stakeholders as well as other educators working to serve newcomers, or English learners in their first three years in US schools. This toolkit is an ongoing project of OUSD's

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Online Resource Library: Compilation for HS Social Studies (IN PROGRESS)

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Middle School History/ Social Studies Resources | SFUSD

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Welcome to the Middle School History/ Social Science page. Here is where you can find information and resources to support your classroom.

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History/Social Studies resources for K-5 educators

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Personal Narrative Project in ELA/Spanish (for 8th grade)

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Personal Narrative Project in ELA/Spanish (for 8th grade)

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/3/d/1SuDh-a4M2K5tZbEjj62OKu_ml29P5SZbMNnZmtD1hpE/edit#slide=id.p

Student work: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGHP40cvho/bLaaRgtN1VrGDj8-DKb2gg/watch?utm_content=DAGHP40cvho&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY4540kE5J4YJTyfrKuKOcd63W_ItWpP1iyJpXrGTrLGhSPgzQZ8gPIp54_aem_AZGM_j0Ag5DEwcFZuFDgIlhMSkE6bpWBhGjz_sZC5mtfo97sMi-0HHbY0s4ToEaGB1Tf80j36GSGa5laq16ldKzP

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Has options to translate into (up to) 40 other languages.

Free App available for iOS/Android

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Nine different game modes in Seterra Online challenge you in different ways to help you retain information and keep things interesting. Also, Seterra Online has a Voice feature that lets you listen to how the place names are pronounced.

Seterra currently has more than three million unique visitors each month and growing! It is available in more than 40 languages and works with Mac and Windows, as well as on iOS and Android devices.

All map quizzes are customizable, so that you can select only the locations you want to be quizzed on. Custom quizzes can easily be shared with your friends or students. Read more about custom quizzes.

Anatomy & Science

Learn more about the human body in our anatomy quizzes!

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Learn world geography the easy way! Seterra is a map quiz game, available online and as an app for iOS an Android. Using Seterra, you can quickly learn to locate countries, capitals, cities, rivers lakes and much more on a map.

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Huge collection of structured visuals and conversation prompts

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The Visual Non-Glossary is very organized. I can pull up any topic and use it immediately. I can use this resource, quickly and it is very impactful.

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Right Question Institute: Question Formulation Technique

Related to the ideas of Visual Analysis Strategies, helps give students the tools to breakdown visual documents and ask questions of various levels about the document.

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Developed by the Right Question Institute, the Question Formulation Technique, or QFT, is a structured method for generating and improving questions. It distills sophisticated forms of divergent, convergent, and metacognitive thinking into a deceptively simple, accessible, and reproducible technique.

The QFT builds the skill of asking questions, an essential - yet often overlooked - lifelong learning skill that allows people to think critically, feel greater power and self-efficacy, and become more confident and ready to participate in civic life.

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What is the QFT? - Right Question Institute

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The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is a simple but rigorous step-by-step process designed to help […]

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"Rewordify is a literacy support tool that helps learners to improve their reading and comprehension."

Here is an example I've created to show how you can use Rewordify with a H/SS text.

*pro tip- on the Rewordify website, take the time to walk through the step-by-step demo. https://rewordify.com/index.php

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Migration Routes of Our Ancient  Ancestors- rewordified text

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San Leandro School of Language (Newcomer Pathway) Slide Template

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San Leandro School of Language (Newcomer Pathway) Slide Template

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With our new Digital Maps, you can explore the museum as if you were visiting in real life.

1　The Maps

Click on the pictures to view the maps.

"Introductory Exhibit" to "Reality of the Atomic Bombing" (Main Building)

"The Dangers of Nuclear Weapons" to "Hiroshima History" (East Building)

2　Notices Regarding Use

・ Content (texts, sources, images, etc.) in the Digital Maps is copyright of the City of Hiroshima, the Hiroshima Television Corporation, and other third parties.

・ The reproduction, use for other purposes, sale, and all other secondary use of the content in the Digital Maps is prohibited without prior permission, regardless of whether it is for profit, not for profit, or restricted to an intranet.

・ While the City of Hiroshima pays the utmost attention to any information published, it makes no guarantees regarding its accuracy, comprehensiveness, or similar.

・ The City of Hiroshima bears no responsibility for any losses incurred by a service user or a third party as a result of a service user's using or trusting any information published.

・ The City of Hiroshima bears no responsibility for any losses incurred by a service user or a third party as a result of an incident occurring between service users, or between a service user and a third party, regarding any information published.

・ The City of Hiroshima bears no responsibility for any losses incurred as a result of, or in relation to, any matters other than the above that relate to information published.

3　Contact

Peace Promotion Division, International Peace Promotion Department, Citizens Affairs Bureau, City of Hiroshima

Tel　082-242-7831 / Fax　082-242-7452

Email　 peace@city.hiroshima.lg.jp
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New: Digital Maps of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum collects and displays belongings left by the victims, photos, and other materials that convey the horror of that event, supplemented by exhibits that describe Hiroshima before and after the bombing and others that present the current status of the nuclear age.