Learning the stories of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Stacey Abrams can deepen students’ understanding of the long and ongoing struggle for voting rights in the United States.

Students can gain important citizenship skills by practicing argumentation and evidence use, examining their own thinking, and speaking to those with whom they disagree. 65251"

Educators can get an inside look at how some classrooms have shifted to inquiry-based social studies with four documentary films featured in the The Making Inquiry Possible project. 

Educators and administrators from the inaugural cohort of 1619 Project Education Network will share their processes for planning and implementing 1619 units in multiple grade levels and courses throughout the 2021-2022 school year. Their units engage 1619 Project resources and themes by aligning them with the existing standards and objectives for their social studies classes. Panelists will outline how they identified their unit topics and focus texts, strategies they engaged to support differentiation and critical thinking, and key takeaways from their experiences teaching their units. The…

Although many myths have surrounded the Mayflower Compact of 1620, it made a major contribution to the American constitutional tradition by rejecting the concept of a state-sanctioned church.  

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up: Using Nonfiction with the Inquiry Arc of the C3 Framework Kristy Brugar and Jeremiah Clabough

How to Be an American This article contains two video resources. (also linked below) Judge Lucy Koh: “Be Fully Engaged in Democracy”Karen Korematsu: “You Can Make a Difference” Conflict, Service, and Civic InvolvementSarah K. Anderson

A close look at the history of African American voting rights can launch a lively classroom discussion about present-day democratic struggles.

This article explores how to teach source evaluation to upper elementary students with a focus on the right to clean water that is recognized in a United Nations resolution of 2010, and based on the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.