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NCSS 2014 Poster Presentation
Sample Lesson Resources
Opening Up the Textbook - Chicano Youth & the Politics of Protest
Resources for an Inquiry-based Classroom
Stanford Education History Group's Reading Like a Historian website
Teaching Channel Video Reading Like a Historian: Overview
Reading Like a Historian Historical Thinking Skills Chart
History Labs - Guided Approach to Historical Inquiry
What is an "Inquiry Lesson" - TeachingHistory.org
Beyond the Textbook - compares textbook sources to historians and primary sources
Teaching Inquiry with Primary Sources - LOC: Teaching with Primary Sources
Inquiry Charts - ReadWriteThink
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Being Culturally Responsive - Teaching Tolerance
Culturally Proficient Curriculum and Instruction Rubrics-from Culturally Proficient Inquiry
Culturally Responsive Teaching Matters - Equity Alliance
Online Resources for Culturally Responsive Teachers - NEA
Austin ISD handout Why Culturally Responsive Teaching?
Resources for Marginalized Voices
Gilded Age
Assimilation through Education Primary Source Set
Chinese Americans and Exclusion Primary Sources
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Primary Sources
Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman’s Race for the Presidency
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
Remembering 1882: Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
Kid Blink Beats the World – The story of the 1899 strike by the children who sold newspapers on the streets (K-4)
House of Purple Cedar - A young girl’s story of growing up in Indian Territory in pre-statehood Oklahoma.
Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Work of Jacob Riis, juveniles and gangs: How the Other Half Lives, XIX. The Harvest of the Tares (1890) and The Battle with the Slum, IX. The Genesis of the Gang (1902)
Progressive Era
Children and Youth During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Problems of Youth during the Progressive Era
Guided Readings: The Changing Status of Women
Children and Disability (19th/20th Century)
Testing, Tracking, and Toeing the Line: A Role Play on the Origins of the Modern High School
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
Imperialism and World War I
One Country! One Language! One Flag!
What the Tour Guide Didn’t Tell Me: Tourism, Colonialism, and Resistance in Hawai’i
The teenage soldiers of World War One
The (19 year old) Man Who Started WWI: Seven Things You Didn’t Know
Roaring Twenties
Modern Youth in the 1920s – a collection of sources from the 1920s
A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents by Ellen Welles Page
Great Depression
Mexican Americans and the Great Depression
Riding the Rails: Teens in the Great Depression
The Lemon Grove Incident: Film about an early story of desegregation in a 1931 school that barred Mexican Americans
World War II
Japanese Internment Primary Sources
A Lesson on the Japanese American Internment
The Other Internment: Teaching the Hidden Story of Japanese Latin Americans During WWII
The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History
The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Online Archive
Opportunity or Exploitation: The Bracero Program (1942-1964)
Bracero History Archive – Information for Teachers
1950s / Cold War
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story - A documentary about the politics and economics of land in the U.S., based on the story of a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium
Chavez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder – collection of bilingual songs
Scandalize My Name - Documentary about the impact of the McCarthy era on African Americans in the film industry
Rethinking the Teaching of the Vietnam War – what is traditionally left out of textbooks
The Green Feather Movement – History of a little-known student resistance movement against McCarthyism and censorship
Civil Rights Movement
Chicano Movement Primary Sources
Honoring the Women of the Civil Rights Movement
NEA Student Activism and the 26th Amendment
Testimonio: A Documentary History of the Mexican American Struggle for Civil Rights
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
We Had Set Ourselves Free: Lessons on the Civil Rights Movement – emphasizes the role and experiences of young people in the movement
The Promise: Brown v. Board of Education, The Civil Rights Movement, and Our Schools
Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights
The History All Around Us: Roosevelt High School and the 1968 Eastside Blowouts
Pump Up the Blowouts: Reflection on the 40th Anniversary of the Chicano/a School Blowouts
School Days: Hail, Hail, Rock ‘n Roll!
A School Year Like No Other: Eyes on the Prize “Fighting Back: 1957-1962”
Warriors Don’t Cry: Connecting History, Literature, and Our Lives
What We Want, What We Believe: Teaching with the Black Panthers’ Ten Point Program
Women, Gays, and Other Voices of Resistance
The Politics of Children’s Literature: What’s Wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth
Modern America
Graffiti, Gender, and Youth (20th Century)
Material Culture and Childhood (20th Century)
Out of the Past: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Rights in America – Documentary uses the story of high school student Kelli Peterson’s history-making experience of forming a Gay Straight Alliance to illuminate the history of gays and lesbians in America.
Precious Knowledge – Film highlighting high school seniors as community leaders in Tucson’s embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program.
Whitewashing Our Past: A Proposal for a National Campaign to Rethink Textbooks
What Kids Can Do – WKCD.org voices from the next generation
Resources across Historical Eras
Mexican Americans Defending the US
Teenage Archives
Women’s Movement Primary Sources
Latino Civil Rights Timeline (1903-2006)
Latino Americans Timeline of Important Dates (1500 – 2013)
Timeline of Young People’s Rights in the United States
Why October is Youth History Month
Mexican American Migrations and Communities LOC teacher guide to LOC resources
History of the YMCA from 1900-1950s
Austin ISD Social Studies
Melanie Kirchhof
Email: melanie.kirchhof@austinisd.org
Twitter: @Mrs_Kirchhof
Amber Rinehart
Email: amber.rinehart@austinisd.org
Twitter: @adrinehart