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Historical Images: Elections in Wisconsin
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Elections, in something close to their current form, have been taking place in Wisconsin since 1825. The first known state vote took place in Green Bay in 1825, when only white male citizens over the age of 21 were allowed to vote. After Wisconsin was made a territory in 1836, one of the legislature’s first acts was to set out rules for elections throughout the territory.

This online exhibit from Recollection Wisconsin provides a glimpse at the history of elections of all kinds across the state.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
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Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Reading
Author:
Kristen Whitson
Date Added:
09/01/2022
Home economics education
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Images of women in the kitchen are a familiar scene in the history of home economics, but what these images don’t show is the important role that home economics played in getting women into higher education. From its inception, collegiate home economics was multidisciplinary and integrative with an emphasis on science applied to the real world of the home, family, and community. It was an academic science designed by women for women. In the first half of the 20th century, these programs prepared women for teaching but also for careers in extension services, state and federal government, industry, restaurants, hotels, and hospitals.

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Education
Higher Education
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Reading
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Recollection Wisconsin
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Recollection Wisconsin
Author:
Erika Janik
Recollection Wisconsin
Date Added:
07/29/2020
Human Rights and Genocide: A Case Study of the First Modern Genocide of the 20th Century
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This comprehensive teacher’s manual focuses on the Armenian Genocide of 1915 during which 1.5 million Armenians, half of the Armenian population, were systematically annihilated. It includes a 1-day, 2-day, and 10-day unit with all the materials teachers will need, including more than two dozen overheads, interactive classroom exercises and more.
Discussions include a wide range of topics related to the Armenian Genocide: the history of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, primary source documents, witness and survivor memoirs, maps and political-economic timelines, and the problem of denial.

The lessons also consider the links between the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, and capture other major human rights violations such as the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Rape of Nanking, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides.

Comprehensive 1-Day, 2-Day, and 10-Day Lesson Plans for 10th Grade Public School Teachers.
Includes all supporting material – 209 pages
Fulfills mandated requirements in the History-Social Science Framework for California Public Schools.
Sponsored by the San Francisco Unified School District Office of Curriculum Improvement and Professional Development.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Genocide Education Project
Date Added:
06/28/2022
Illinois Holocaust Museum - Museum Field Trips
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Field trips offer opportunities to explore our exhibitions that address the history of the Holocaust, genocide, human and civil rights, as well as local and global social justice issues.

Subject:
Global Education
Social Studies
U.S. History
World History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Other
Author:
Illinois Holocaust Museum
Date Added:
11/02/2023
Ireland’s Great Hunger Activity Guide
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This packet provides an explanation of Ireland’s Great Hunger and provides ideas for primary source materials to use to describe the event A variety of discussion questions, writing activities, and other activities are provided that allow students to explore the facts and how different Irish artists used art and other media forms to depict the effects of the famine.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Social Studies
U.S. History
World History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
The Great Hunger Mueseum
Date Added:
08/04/2022
Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?
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Anthony’s speech helps students understand the Constitution as a living document. She uses a variety of techniques of legal reasoning and interpretation to challenge other, exclusionary uses of the document. She bases an argument for change on an interpretation of a founding document.
Reconstruction is a challenging era for students to understand. Anthony’s speech captures the complexities of the Reconstruction Amendments and how they opened new avenues for disenfranchised groups to assert their rights. It also explores the interrelationship of the women’s suffragists with other movements. Anthony highlights the cultural, social, and political aspects of women’s struggle for equal rights. The speech does not simply assert women’s right to vote, but also more broadly addresses the subordinate position of women within the home and in other areas of public policy.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Gender Studies
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
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High School Lesson Plan created for Voices of Democracy by Michael J. Steudeman
Date Added:
08/01/2022
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Imagery
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This is an anti-racism institution that uses objects to inform, to teach, and to create dialogues about race relations. They use primary sources to document and learn from the past. The mission of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Imagery is to teach tolerance using objects of deeply rooted intolerance.

Resources promote personal and community awareness, social justice, and racial healing. The museum understands that all individuals have varying comfort levels when speaking about race and confronting racism. The Educational Resources include a virtual tour of the museum, curriculum guide, resource guide, media literacy unit and a unit that addresses racial disparity in Covid-19.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Author:
Ferris State University
Dr David Pilgrim
Date Added:
08/05/2023
Latin American Independence
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Explore the factors leading to the independence movement of Latin American colonies. Students will manipulate thematic layers using a geographic information system. Teachers must transfer the questions and instructions to a new document because the answers are included on the pdf linked here.

Subject:
Geography
Social Studies
World History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Interactive
Lecture
Lesson
Reference Material
Author:
Esri Geoinquiries
Date Added:
06/25/2023
Lesson: Dr. King's Legacy and Choosing to Participate
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This lesson from Facing History and Ourselves asks students to analyze and storyboard Dr. King's "Mountaintop Speech" and discuss how humans can respond to injustice. It also challenges students to reflect on the world in which they would like to live.

Subject:
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Author:
Facing History and Ourselves
Date Added:
08/16/2022
Lesson Plan: 2004 Democratic Convention: The Importance of the Keynote Speech
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This six-minute video takes students “behind the stage” at political party conventions by interviewing the convention manager and speechwriting team who launched Barack Obama’s national political career by choosing him to make the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Deconstructing how conventions function as a complex messaging operations involving the coordination of hundreds of speakers, the video provides students with insight into one of the most important moments in modern American politics, and would be useful in any sequence of lessons focused on the election of presidents or modern campaigning methods.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023
Lesson Plan: 9/11 Heroes: Surviving the Biggest Attack on U.S. Soil
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This 12-minute video and lesson plan explore the September 11 terrorist attacks, which occurred 20 years ago, before any of today’s K-12 students were born. How can we examine the events of that day and the aftermath as historians would? This activity asks students to examine primary sources, pose questions for investigation and gather additional narratives from this time period.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023
Lesson Plan: Campaigns and Elections: The 2000 Election
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After the 2000 election night ended with no clear winner and exposed flaws in our voting system, there was a push for reforms to make elections run more smoothly. This 12-minute video introduces students to the turmoil and confusion of the Bush v. Gore election recount and illustrates the surprising and unintended aftermath of that event: Instead of reforms, there was a change toward an even more politicized electoral process. Useful as an introduction to the Bush v. Gore election controversy, the video can also be used to set up a conversation about the past and future of voting rights and voter suppression.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023
Lesson Plan: Election of 1860: Slavery Splits the Democrats
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This four-minute video explores the causes and consequences of the Democratic Party’s division into two parties following the Democratic national convention of 1860. After rejecting Stephen A. Douglas’s failed attempt to reconcile the Northern and Southern factions of the party with his doctrine of “popular sovereignty,” the Southern delegates walked out of the convention. That decision led to the election of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and 50 years of Republican dominance in national politics. A concise summary of the unusual events that allowed Abraham Lincoln to win the election of 1860, the video fits into any sequence of lessons on the factors leading to secession and the Civil War.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023
Lesson Plan: From Women's Suffrage to the ERA
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This seven-minute video and accompanying lesson plan looks at how throughout the 1960’s and 70’s the second wave feminism movement worked to address gender inequality across the United States. While the movement had several important victories, the Equal Rights Amendment was not passed. Was the second wave feminist movement a success nonetheless?

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023
Lesson Plan: How the U.S. Has Treated Wartime Refugees
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This ten-minute video examines what obligation countries have to refugees. It’s a question as important today as it was in 1975, when the United States evacuated 130,000 South Vietnamese allies during the fall of Saigon and brought them to this country to start new lives. Today, as Afghan and Ukrainian migrants settle in the United States, students will explore whether refugee resettlement is better now than it was for the Vietnamese 50 years ago, and what is owed to people fleeing war, destruction and despair across the globe.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023
Lesson Plan: Immigration in the 1990s: Proposition 187
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This 9-minute video illustrates how demographic trends and a changing California economy in the 1990s created a backlash against immigration, only to be followed by another swing in the ideological pendulum. This lesson examines how economic and demographic forces affect the strategies of the political parties, and demonstrates how policies like Proposition 187 can produce unintended and surprising consequences.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023
Lesson Plan: Labor Union Activism: Advocating for Worker Rights
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This eight-minute video explores how with the economic pain of the pandemic, new groups of American workers are pushing to form labor unions at restaurants, stores and warehouses. It’s the biggest surge of activism since the 1930s. At the height of the Great Depression, with as many as 13 million Americans out of work, President Franklin Roosevelt pushed New Deal reforms through Congress, including the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. It guaranteed private sector workers the right to form unions. This lesson asks students to examine the push for workers’ rights beginning with the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom, continuing to the Great Depression in the United States and on to contemporary efforts.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023
Lesson Plan: The Civil Rights Movement: Black Power and Sports
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This 11-minute video tells the story of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, their raised-fist Black Power salute on the medal podium during the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, and the consequences they went on to face. This video shows the development of the civil rights protests of the 1960s, and how the cultural context of that decade led to a wave of protests by athletes. It illustrates how the cultural context of the 1980s caused a decline in political consciousness among athletes. Finally it addresses how recent shootings and misconduct by police officers have fueled a resurgence of athlete activism. The video includes footage and discussion of Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan and O.J. Simpson. It will help students understand the complexities and challenges that black athletes face on the public stage. Students will learn how the modern take-a-knee protest movement, started by Colin Kaepernick, is directly linked to the Olympics protest in 1968.

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This video contains graphic depictions of police shootings.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/06/2023
Lesson Plan: The Second Amendment: Siege at Waco
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This 14-minute video shows students how the federal government’s botched raid on the compound of the Branch Davidian religious sect in 1993 gave rise to a nationwide militia movement of people advocating an expansive and individualistic interpretation of the Second Amendment. Students will learn how this movement included terrorists like Timothy McVeigh as well as lawful activists, many of whom continue to influence the national conversation on gun rights. Including interviews with militia activists as well as their opponents, the video provides students with context and insight on a defining cultural and political moment in the tug-of-war between individual rights and government powers. Useful for any lesson introducing Second Amendment controversies, the video illustrates why the right of individuals to own firearms remains one of the most contentious issues in American government.

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This video includes footage of gun violence during a law enforcement raid that left 80 people dead.

Subject:
Civics and Government
Social Studies
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RetroReport
Date Added:
06/05/2023