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Social History for Every Classroom

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SHEC's classroom-ready primary documents and teaching activities engage students with deep historical questions and are designed to support learning at every level. Grounded in decades of work with history teachers in real classrooms, SHEC reflects ASHP/CML’s mission of making the past, and the working people and ordinary Americans who shaped it, vivid and meaningful.

There are two ways to find what you need in SHEC. You can do a keyword search and then narrow your search results, or you can browse our collections, teaching activities, and historical eras.

Pedagogy

How is History Recorded? The Lewis and Clark Journals and Lakota Winter Counts

In this activity, students read two primary documents from the early 1800s: a journal entry from the Lewis and Clark expedition and a Lakota Indian…

Professional Learning

Online professional development for history teachers.