The Ken Burns Classroom Collection on PBS LearningMedia offers hundreds of standards-aligned classroom lessons based on films by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and their collaborators, including The Civil War, The Roosevelts, The West, The Vietnam War, and many more. This webinar will showcase inquiry-based strategies for integrating documentary film clips and primary sources into instruction. You will hear from experienced educators who have developed lesson materials for the collection and implemented the lessons in their classrooms. Participants will emerge inspired with new ideas for how to…

Explore history through the lens of human rights. Applying the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this workshop provides classroom materials and strategies to highlight how human rights apply to to every nation, including the United States. Challenge your students to draw connections across nations and eras. Speaker: Nina Simone Grotch, Director of Human Rights Education Strategy, Woven Teaching