2009-10

• US History Yearly Overview
• 4th Six Weeks Conceptual Overview
• 4th Six Weeks IPG

Login to AIMS
and select the IPG tab

to locate suggested lessons
and accompanying resources.

2010-11

• United States History Yearly Itinerary
• United States History Curriculum Roadmap
• United States History GPS

Texas Knowledge and Skills
(TEKS)
for U.S. History

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* Professional Development on the new TEKS
is scheduled for Spring/Summer 2011.

Implementation of new TEKS for Social Studies
will be in the 2011-12 school year.

Cold War &

PostWar America

"The Cold War Files:
Interpreting History
Through Documents"

Search for each episode in the 24 part CNN series "Cold War" on
Google Videos.

Educator's Resources for the program.

• Lesson Ideas on the UN & UN Declaration of Human Rights

New Frontier &

the Great Society

• Evaluating Great Society Programs
  placards & student template.doc

• Lyndon Baines Johnson: 36th President [Discovery Education Video & Lesson Plan]

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  Viva La Causa focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights - the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s.

  The kit includes:

  • 39-minute film on DVD
  • Teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans

  Teachers can order this kit for free, and also available for checkout from the Curriculum Dept.

  • Cesar Chavez Audio Speeches [United Farm Workers Official website]

   

  The African American Civil Rights Movement

  • Lesson plan instructions
  • Photoplacards Student Inference chart
  • Civil Rights photos with descriptors

   

  Black Separatism or the Beloved Community? Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. - Lesson Plan Two of the Curriculum Unit Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movementview_lesson_plan

• Lyndon Johnson & the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (.pdf) (from "Teaching with Primary Resources," The Social Studies Texas, (2008)

From Tonkin to War Powers, The American War in Vietnam 1954-1975
"A Dichotomy in U.S. Foreign Policy
- Focus, Separation of Powers and Consent of the Governed".doc

• Photo Story.wmv
• Photo Story Annotated References.doc
  

[Lesson designed by Melinda Lemke; M.Ed., as part of the Teaching American History grant project, The Relevant Constitution.]