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
- Verifying Online Claims about the Great Depression*
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Verifying Online Claims about Native American History*
- 1973 Chile Coup
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Hurricane Katrina
Digital Literacy Assessments
- North American Map*
- Frederick Douglass Wikipedia*
- Verifying Historical Claims on TikTok*
- Grandfather Clause*
- Reconstruction Source Evaluation*
- Chinatown Image*
- Ellis Island on Instagram*
- Palmer Raids Instagram Post*
- Depression-Era Clothing*
- Historical Video on TikTok*
- Japanese American Resistance Source Evaluation*
- Dennis v. United States*
- Pioneering Pilot*
- 1994 Source Evaluation*
- Radioactive Shrimp*