Resource Types: Teaching Activities (Free)
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Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. 3 pages. Rethinking Schools.
Discussion questions and teaching ideas for examining the history of the Pledge of Allegiance and the political milieu in which it was written.
Resource Types: Articles
Page Length: 13
Article. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools.
Critique of the popular "Oregon Trail" computer game.
Resource Types: Teaching Activities (Free)
Page Length: 5
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools.
A trial role play helps students reflect on responsibility for the deaths of Irish peasants during the so-called potato famine.
Resource Types: Teaching Activities (Free)
Page Length: 23
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. 24 pages.
The U.S. Constitution endorsed slavery and favored the interests of the owning classes. What kind of Constitution would have resulted from founders who were representative of the entire country? That is the question addressed in this role play activity.
Resource Types: Teaching Activities (Free)
Page Length: 9
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow.
Students are invited to solve a mystery, using historical clues, about the real story of the Draft Riots.
Resource Types: Teaching Activities (Free)
Page Length: 10
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow.
What led up to the Trail of Tears? In this lesson, students learn about the decision to remove the Cherokee and Seminole people from their lands.
Resource Types: Teaching Activities (Free)
Page Length: 7
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. 7 pages.
Students read a poignant excerpt from Agnes Smedley's novel, Daughter of Earth, and use it to think and write about how schooling—their own included—teaches lessons about social class.
Resource Types: Teaching Activities (Free)
Page Length: 7
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow.
Students explore some of the myths of the Civil War through examining excerpts from Lincoln’s first inaugural address, the rarely mentioned original Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that Lincoln promised to support, and the Emancipation Proclamation.
