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World History

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With a Newsela Social Studies or Science license, you can level up learning with more than 300 articles elevated into engaging, standards-aligned activities in Formative.
  • Newsela Primary Source Activities: Engage with history using Newsela's Primary Sources articles. Students will develop critical source analysis skills while immersing themselves in pivotal historical events, figures, and eras.
  • Newsela Science Activities: Ignite scientific curiosity using Newsela's Science Explainers articles. Students will dive into diverse scientific topics, gain valuable insights, and ignite curiosity.
Primary Source- Time Machine (1912): Wreck of the White Star liner Titanic
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Primary Sources - Famous Speeches: Elie Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference"
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Nelson Mandela's Address on his Release from Prison
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: President Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall"
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Primary Sources- Famous Speeches: Truman Announces Dropping of Atom Bomb on Hiroshima
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Primary Sources- Time Machine (1914): Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand starts WWI
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Primary Sources: "Utopia" by Thomas More
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Primary Sources: A Letter from the British Trenches During World War I
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Primary Sources: An Investigation Into Congo Colonialism, 1890
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Primary Sources: Einstein Urges FDR to Build Nuclear Weapons in WWII
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Primary Sources: The 1828 Mier y TerĂ¡n Report
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Primary Sources: The Black Death, 1348
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Primary Sources: The Code of Hammurabi
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