When teachers create lessons that include historical sources, it’s important to pay attention to source choice and source attribution. 

The specific scaffolds and strategy instructions outlined in this article will help students engage in the complex task of historical inquiry. 

In this era of disinformation and denial, truth seekers are challenged at every juncture to discover authentic and documented facts. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the opening of their archives revealed a wealth of proof of orders given by Stalin and his regime to confiscate all of the foodstuffs from parts of Ukraine. Stalin’s Five Year Plan required capital to industrialize and quickly modernize his nation. In this webinar, we will: Examine the steps the Soviet Union took to confiscate all foodstuffs from areas of Ukraine in 1932-1933 Learn how some Western journalists became…

Amplify women’s voices in your classroom to honor the past, inform the present and inspire the future. Women’s stories have always been integral to American history, but they have often been marginalized or erased from K-12 education – presented as peripheral to the main story or highlighted only during Women’s History Month. Participants will be introduced to and receive a set of six teaching posters that will support teachers in integrating women’s history across the curriculum through American art and portraiture. Featured artworks link women’s stories to major themes in history and…

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…

Almost 20 years after the ban on Mexican American Studies, we continue to teach Mexican American Perspectives in our classrooms, and prepare new generations of teachers for the skills needed to defend the right to teach and learn about hour history in the classroom. Speaker: Felina Rodriguez, Educator, Phoenix Union High School District

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

Where is the US in your world history classroom? Let’s dig into these narratives, discuss and disrupt them. Speaker: Erin Bronstein, Assistant Professor of Social Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn