This lesson follows the idea: Teaching about current-day sweatshops to make the topic of work conditions during the Industrial Revolution more relevant for students (New York Times 2011-21).

Quellensammlungen

Chicago: City of the Century offers insights into topics in American history including the settling of the prairies; contact between fur traders, speculators, and Native Americans;

Unterrichtseinheiten zum Problemkreis ”Big Brother” (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, USA 2000-2013)

The 5 minutes video uncovers the history of the witch hunts that swept through Europe and the American colonies from the 15th century until the 18th century (TED Ed 2019).

Students will evaluate how 19th-century images of immigrants reflected political and social attitudes toward them in the United States (North Carolina Museum of Art 2017).

The units’ topics are diverse, but all follow an environmental theme and contain the engineering principles of design and problem solving (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute 2019).

Social and Racial Inequality

Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 12/2018

The U.S. President