I found this book, which can be previewed online, very useful as a guide for uncovering history content. Lesh provides clear examples of how to structure primary source based lessons for US History classes. I have marked up copy.
This clip gives us a ray of hope. It shows how farmers use cutting and burning techniques, but helicopters and satellite technology help the Brazilian government slow deforestation by 75%.
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The curriculum begins with a message from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and an introductory essay, "The Great Depression: An Overview," written by David C. Wheelock, a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and an expert on the Great Depression.
Some great lessons. I personally will be using some form of Lesson 2 - What Do People Say? (work with 6 letters written from various people in the 20s of the causes of the G.D.)
and Lesson 3.What Really Caused the Great Depression? (create a budget sheet before and after the G.D. and identify tradeoffs made.
They have pdf.s available as well as smartboard material.
Designed for high school and college teachers and students,
History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers
other useful materials for teaching U.S. histor
Best used in an Honors class after "Jeds & Pads," this 12:13 video has great information and primary source materials, but the narrator has a monotone voice and uses high level vocabulary (i.e. "foment").
Chicago Racial Demographics changing over time. This animated .gif shows the growth and expansion of Chicago's segregated black ghettoes on the south and west sides. Very dramatic. Uses census data, 1910-200
Of all the revolutions in modern history, those in Spanish America in the early nineteenth century might be most closely related to eighteenth-century revolution that created the United States
Useful looking resource with images of the original "redlining" maps from the 1930s. These maps created the practice and the term redlining. Has HOLC A-D graded areas imposed on present day maps for cities in California and North Carolinia.