We have free lessons and assessments that incorporate digital literacy in the history classroom. Materials with an asterisk (*) are available to download in Spanish.
Reading Like a Historian Lessons with Embedded Digital Literacy
- How to Evaluate Online Sources about History
- How to Verify Historical Claims on Social Media
- Intro to Lateral Reading with Reconstruction Sources
- Verifying Historical Claims on Social Media
- La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico*
- Reconstruction Massacre*
- Great Railroad Strike of 1877*
- Evaluating Online Sources: Porvenir Massacre
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Equal Rights Amendment
- 1973 Chile Coup
- Hurricane Katrina
Digital Literacy Assessments
- Frederick Douglass Wikipedia*
- Verifying Historical Claims on TikTok*
- Reconstruction Source Evaluation*
- Chinatown Image*
- Grandfather Clause*
- Ellis Island on Instagram
- Palmer Raids Instagram Post
- Historical Video on TikTok*
- Japanese American Resistance Source Evaluation
- Dennis v. United States*
- Pioneering Pilot
- 1994 Source Evaluation
- Radioactive Shrimp