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Students learn about John F. Kennedy and his ideas about service as a prompt [...] »

Through the lens of documents concerning the Iran-Contra Affair, this lesson [...] »
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Teach your students to read like a historian with this guided four-step [...] »

Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different "pictures of [...] »

Using the premise of a mystery, elementary students act as history [...] »
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