The Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum includes 250 primary sources in 23 lessons in seven units. Inclusive lessons feature Universal Design for Learning strategies and exemplary assessments. Lesson content facilitates integration into many regular K-12 topics. Skill and language development addresses C-3 History and Social Science frameworks as well as Educating for…
The Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies (MCSS) produced a series of instructional tools to support access to Document-Based Questions (DBQs) for…
In this lesson sequence, students will explore primary source documents to learn more about what daily life was like in Colonial Massachusetts. Students…
Although this series of lessons utilizes sources from the Civil Rights Movement, the topic of focus could be changed to better support student needs or to better align to your topics of study.
Students will practice with language at the discourse, sentence, and word/phrase level while exploring primary sources connected to the Civil Rights movement. These lessons were framed around the…
Throughout these lessons, multilingual learners will develop the language necessary for success in the content area of social studies.
Starting with this as the overarching goal of the unit, the lessons build towards the academic language knowledge and skills students will need to analyze and summarize Supreme Court decisions. Students…