World History

Explore the Vietnam era and experience a path chosen for you. Get drafted: go to Vietnam or burn your draft card. Stay home: protest the war or join Nixon’s Silent Majority.” Trasa Cobern, Allyson Mather, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, Bedford, TX 1313 2019-1313 2019 TXCSS Made in Texas: Primary Social Studies Manipulatives Session Texas History Elementary Make student and group manipulatives based on K-2 TEKS with provided materials. Hands-on strategies engage learners while connecting foundational TEKS social studies concepts. These tested and effective tools make primary social studies instruction memorable and fun. Dinah Zike, Judi Youngers, Dinah-Zike Academy, San Antonio, TX 1314 2019-1314 2019 TXCSS Engage, Build Connect! Using the 5E Model to Create Experiences for Learning Session US History 6-12 Experience the keys to creating a successful unit. Learn how to help students engage with the content, build background knowledge, and make big picture connections across history. Discover the importance of creating learning experiences for student to make difficult concepts stick. Lindsey Stevens, Nakesha Smith, Kevin LaFollett, Emily Elliott, Katy ISD, Katy, TX 1315 2019-1315 2019 TXCSS Increasing Student Engagement and Logical Reasoning Skills with Test Items Session US History 6-12 Learn collaborative strategies that increase student-student talk and promote higher-level reasoning. These easy-to-use strategies build a more engaged class culture while supporting instruction and practice in answering high stakes test questions, important since STAAR tests are thinking tests. Andrew Roberts, Sirius Education Solutions, Austin, TX

The destruction of Lidice in Czechoslovakia by the Nazis after Heydrich's death is well known. Find out why the destruction of Lezaky for the same reason is not. The who and why are surprising and disturbing.

Learn about Upstanders during the Holocaust who leveraged their agency against a totalitarian and genocidal regime to fight for basic rights and human dignity. Examine the activism of American Upstanders who worked to repair injustices in American society.

Discover Latinx programming and bilingual Spanish/English resources available and created by the Holocaust Museum Houston. Learn the importance of inclusion in museum spaces and the enhancement of academic learning through representation. Gain insight on the use of non-traditional resources that connect back to the classroom.

Find quick and easy assessments that you can use in your classroom immediately. Learn about several ideas that take a class period or less, including the use of technology, simple pen and paper, and ways to differentiate for all levels of learners.

Learn how letting students choose what they read develops intellectual agency and self-regulation. Explore how structured student choice can be the deepest form of differentiation leading to authentic C3 inquiry.

Banish your fears of teaching those uncomfortable and sensitive topics. Learn how to tackle these issues with a planning process that incorporates inquiry and primary sources, and receive model lessons.

The U.S. and U.S.S.R typically take center stage in Cold War history, missing the agency of other nations and peoples. Examine three case studies to break that binary.

Explore the complicated historical and geographic context of Korea's rapid economic development...with student-friendly resources! Free AP World History instructional resources aligned to the new framework will be shared.

Discover the development of international human rights doctrine through American volunteerism during the Spanish Civil War. Learn to critically engage students with primary sources in both English and Spanish.