ActivityThe Colonial World Interactive Timeline
An interactive that showcases major events of the year 1607-1763.
BRI's free, online Middle School resource for civics and U.S. History
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"iframe_url": "<div style=\"margin: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\r\n<h1 style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Resource Overview</h1><br>\r\nBuilding a Self-Governing People <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">is designed to be flexible, teacher-friendly, and embedded with rich with educator</span> supports. Each lesson is classroom-ready and includes guidance for differentiation and adaptation from the Colonial World to Reconstruction.\r\n\r\nThe resource utilizes <span data-contrast=\"auto\">deconstructed Document-Based Question (DBQ) assessments to build critical student skills that analyze key events, people, and ideas while practicing historical thinking and civic reasoning. Each unit of the resource includes a mini lesson that explores one component of a deconstructed DBQ accompanied by a video that examines the DBQ skills component from the unit using paintings and images. Our goal is that students gradually build toward a summative DBQ in each unit with structured skill development.\r\n\r\n</span><br><br>\r\n<div style=\"margin: auto; width: 1000px; padding: 10px; background-color: #ff8300; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background-color: #ff8300; color: #fff; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\" href=\"https://billofrightsinstitute.org/curricula/building-a-self-governing-people-civics-us-history-for-middle-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding: 2px;\">Open the Resource Now! </button></a></div>\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n ",
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}Plan your year with suggested pacing
Start exploring the nine units of our middle school resources and the 5+ lessons in each unit
View all the student handouts, activities, and essays from each unit of our middle school resource
Help build your students deconstructed DBQ skills with the video series. Each video uses relevant primary source imagery from the unit time period to establish each skill set like thesis writing.
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