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Last Modified June 23, 2023
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Get a glimpse inside real classrooms in our library of videos. You'll see our teaching strategies in action, experience classroom conversations, and hear teacher tips on how to build reflective classrooms. This content was made possible by the Hammer Family Foundation.

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Identity Charts for Historical Figures

In this classroom video, students create identity charts for different civil rights activists.

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Evidence Logs

In this classroom video, students learn about the Evidence Logs strategy. 

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The Power of Propaganda

In this classroom video, a high school class prepares to read Elie Wiesel’s Night. 

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Identity Charts

In this classroom video, students create identity charts about themselves as they prepare to write narrative essays.

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Connecting Students to Memorials via Arts/Makerspace

In this classroom video, students learn how to create art to memorialize those lost in the Holocaust. 

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Introducing Universe of Obligation in an English Language Arts Classroom

In this classroom video, an English language arts teacher introduces the idea of a “universe of obligation."

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Using Survivor Testimony: Preparation

In this classroom video, students view, react to, and discuss first-person accounts of the Holocaust.

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Think, Pair, Share

This classroom video shows the Think, Pair, Share strategy in action with high school students.

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A Range of Choices: Terminology

In this classroom video, students are introduced to the terminology of the roles individuals play (bystander, upstander, collaborator, victim, and perpetrator).

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Journaling in a Reflective Classroom

In this classroom video, middle school students acclimate to using journals during the first week of school.

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A Range of Choices: In Action

In this classroom video, students read primary sources and discuss the roles that individuals have played in those historical cases.

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Teaching about the Weimar Republic

In this classroom video, a teacher helps her students consider several first-person accounts of life in Weimar Germany.

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Supporting Student Learning through Journaling

In this classroom video, social studies teacher Jenna Forton uses journaling to open a lesson on the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case.

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Using Journals at the Beginning and End of a Lesson

In this classroom video, a high school history teacher uses journals with his students both at the beginning and end of a lesson on Reconstruction.

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Defining Freedom: Facilitating a Conversation About the Reconstruction Era

In this classroom video, a high school history teacher leads a classroom discussion that explores the meaning of freedom to formerly enslaved people during the Reconstruction era. 

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Barometer

In this classroom video, middle school students learn how to participate in a Barometer activity during the first week of school.

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Teaching about Segregation and Its Consequences: Examining Plessy v. Ferguson

In this classroom video, social studies teacher Jenna Forton teaches a lesson from the Choices in Little Rock unit

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Graffiti Boards

This classroom video shows a high school class using the Graffiti Board strategy as a brainstorming tool in preparation for their "Action Project."

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The Legacy of Eugenics: Facilitating a Classroom Conversation

In this classroom video, a high school history teacher facilitates a conversation with students about the legacy of the eugenics movement in the United States.

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Exploring Judgment and Justice

In this classroom video, students explore the nature of justice and how the unwritten rules of society can impact how laws are carried out.

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Developing Students’ Capacity to Connect with History

In this classroom video, social studies teacher Tareeq Rasheed teaches the lesson “The First Day of School” from the Choices in Little Rock unit.

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Introducing the Weimar Republic

In this classroom video, students read about and discuss the Weimar Republic using primary source readings from Holocaust and Human Behavior.

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Supporting a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom

In this classroom video, social studies teacher Tareeq Rasheed teaches the lesson “The Choices the Leaders Made (Part II)” from the Choices in Little Rock unit.

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Introduction to Contracting

In this classroom video, a teacher leads a class through the contracting process and students discuss expectations and norms of how class members will treat each other.

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Gallery Walk

This classroom video shows a high school class using the Gallery Walk strategy to consider images of monuments and memorials before embarking on an "Action Project."

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Socratic Seminar: Weimar Republic

In this classroom video, students participate in a Socratic seminar after reading Voices in the Dark, a first-person account of antisemitism experienced by a WWI veteran.

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Two-Column Note-Taking

In this classroom video, the teacher uses the Two-Column Note-Taking strategy with his students to help them organize their thoughts and emotional responses as they listen to recorded survivor testimony.

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Teaching Strategy: Big Paper

In this classroom video, a high school history teacher uses the Big Paper teaching strategy as he shares primary source documents about the Reconstruction era with his students.

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Memory and Legacy: Preparing to Learn from Descendants of Holocaust Survivors

In this classroom video, explore how framing a lesson around the importance of memory using classroom discussion and journaling can prepare students to learn from survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants.

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Teaching Strategy: Found Poems

In this classroom video, a high school history teacher leads students in the construction of found poems based on their research about the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century in the United States.

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Socratic Seminar: Social Justice

In this classroom video, students participate in a Socratic seminar centered on the essential question, "How do our personal stories influence how we fight for justice?"

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Fostering Active Engagement through Fishbowl Discussion

In this classroom video, social studies teacher Jenna Forton uses the Fishbowl teaching strategy to structure a class discussion about primary documents related to the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.

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Understanding We and They

In this classroom video, students discuss the idea of “we and they.” They reflect on the snap judgements they make about others and consider how others might make quick calculations about them.

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Contracting

In this classroom video, a middle school teacher leads his class through the contracting process during the first week of school and students discuss expectations and norms of how class members will treat each other.