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Follow the sequence of lessons in our units to take students on a learning journey through history that helps them make connections to the issues impacting their own lives today.
Guided by essential questions and composed of lessons, activities, and student handouts, our units can be taught on their own or layered into your existing curriculum to deepen learning.
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Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
Use this 23-lesson unit to lead middle or high school students through a study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.
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Americans and the Holocaust: The Refugee Crisis
Explore the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism and the humanitarian refugee crisis it provoked during the 1930s and 1940s.
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My Part of the Story: Exploring Identity in the United States
Help students understand that their voices are integral to the story of the United States with six lesson plans that investigate individual and national identity.
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