Category: TEKS Grade 6 Social Studies

  • How to Explain October 7 and Beyond to Students

    This is a poster presentation made at the National Council for Social Studies 2025 annual conference. It involves four panels showing a timeline starting in the late 19th century through 2025 with a focus on events that affected self-determination, democracy, and human rights (the theme of the 2025 annual conference). With the four panels, which…

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  • Letting Maps Tell the Story

    This 29 minute TXCHR video starts with maps of the 13th century BCE, includes maps of the Ottoman Empire that ruled the region for 400 years, then WW I maps related to negotiations between the British and Arabs. Then the video shows maps of population and land ownership through the early 1940s. Maps of partition…

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  • The Nakba

    This video explains the story of the Nakba with a testimonial. It lays out the history and facts of the last 100 years in Israel-Palestine. This is a useful video to present as an introduction for students or for educators to quickly get an understanding of the background to the current situation and to understand…

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  • Rachel Corey’s Letter from Gaza

    Letters from a 23 year-old peace activists, Rachel Corrie, to her family who was killed in 2003 while trying to prevent the Israeli army from destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. Followed by questions for classroom discussion.https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/rachel-corries-letters-and-questions/

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  • Sitti’s (my grandmother’s) Bird: A Gaza Story-An Introduction to Gaza for Children

    An interactive lesson that is an age appropriate (includes slides and video of the book) introduction to events in Gaza written by American teachers.https://teachpalestine.org/sittis-bird-a-gaza-story-an-introduction-to-gaza-for-children/

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  • Israeli Palestinian Conflict Explained

    A quick animated introduction to Israel/Palestine conflict by Jewish Voice for Peace examining Israel-Palestine from historic, geographic, and human rights perspectives. The video looks at current issues and decidedly takes a stand for human rights while not shying away from the perceived complexities in achieving equality for all in the region. It offers an interesting…

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  • Borders and Walls

    Engage your students with a lesson that brings the complex topics of identity, division, and resilience to life. This lesson plan uses interactive activities like a gallery walk of global borders, including the US-Mexico border, thought-provoking readings on Manifest Destiny and Zionism, and real stories from Palestinian youth to draw parallels between historical and modern-day…

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