HERB: Resources for Teachers

Technological Turning Points and their Impact

In this activity, students will look at images of various types of technology (eg. TV, video games, subway) and determine which ones are “technological turning points.” To help evaluate whether or not something is a “technological turning point,” students will complete a worksheet that identifies each technology's economic, social,…

Tags: Smartboard, Technology, Turning Points
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Date: 2011

Let's Make an Immigration Deal

In this game, students are assigned different immigrant identities and advance based on their access to economic opportunity and religious, political, and social liberties at different times in U.S. history.

Tags: Chinese Immigration, Immigration and Migration, Slavery and Abolition, Smartboard, TAH
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Date: 2011

The Movement Before the Movement: Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s

In this activity, students read cards about various civil rights protests and events during the 1940s. For each event, students match the issue (voting rights, fair employment, fair housing, or segregation in public places) at stake, identify the key people involved and what region of the country it took place in. After students have completed all…

Tags: Civil Rights and Citizenship, Smartboard, Social Movements, TAH, World War II
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Date: 2011

Neighborhood or Slum? Snapshots of Five Points, 1827-1867

In this activity, students look at census records from antebellum Five Points and compare them to depictions of the neighborhood and its residents. Students will evaluate whether observers described Five Points as a neighborhood or slum. The activity includes a Smartboard file, but can be completed without this technology.

Tags: Common Core Reading, Five Points, Smartboard
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Date: 2011

Lessons in Looking: Imperialism Cartoons

This activity teaches students how to break down different elements of a political cartoon. Students examine how different symbols and images can be combined to convey meaning. Then students analyze a 1902 political cartoon about U.S. expansion overseas and the acquisition of new territories in the Philippines in Cuba. This activity includes a…

Tags: Expansion and Imperialism, Lessons in Looking, Philippine-American War, Smartboard, TAH
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Date: 2011

Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage

In this activity, students analyze documents to arrange events on a timeline of women's suffrage. The timeline and documents will help students understand the intersection of social movements and constitutional change. This activity can be modified by reducing the number of documents. An optional Smartboard Notebook file is included to facilitate…

Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Reading Supports, Smartboard, Social Movements, TAH, Voting
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Date: 2010

Creating a Cartoon of the Philippine-American War

In this activity students create a political cartoon about one of five key historical understandings of the Philippine-American War. This activity and its materials are Smartboard-friendly but can be completed without a Smartboard. This activity is designed to accompany the filmSavage Acts: Wars, Fairs, and Empire 1898-1904, but it can be adapted…

Tags: Expansion and Imperialism, Philippine-American War, Smartboard, TAH
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Date: 2010

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