CERCA Slides: How Ideas Spread

With each touch of the screen or keypad, we access information and encounter new ideas.
But ideas didn’t always spread so rapidly. With this week’s set of CERCA Slides, students explore how ideas have spread in different times and places.

CERCA Slides by Grade

Grade 3: Rules and Laws in Ashoka's Empire

How did people in Ashoka’s empire share ideas and learn about rules and laws?

CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.W.3.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 4: Town Criers Spread the News

What role did town criers play in communities in the past?

CCSS.RI.4.1
CCSS.W.4.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 5: "Common Sense" and the American Revolution

How did “Common Sense” change the American Revolution?

CCSS.RI.5.1
CCSS.W.5.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 6: The Ramayana

How did the epic poem The Ramayana communicate ideas about culture and social life in and beyond ancient South Asia?

CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.W.6.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 7: The Printing Press

How did the printing press allow for greater access to knowledge in Europe?

CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.W.7.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 8: The Indian Removal Act

How do these primary sources show the ways in which ideas about the Indian Removal Act were presented, debated, and challenged in public forums?

CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.W.8.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 9: Selling WW1 to the American Public with Posters

What visual arguments did wartime posters communicate to the American public during World War I?

CCSS.RI.9-10..1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 10: Fake News, Now and Then

How is 21st century "fake news" similar to and different from misinformation at other points in history?

CCSS.RI.9-10..1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 11: Radium Girls

How did newspaper writers of the 1920s and 1930s use rhetorical appeals to bring public attention to the plight of the Radium Girls—and, more broadly—to the idea of workplace safety?

CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.W.11-12.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

Grade 12: Frederick Douglass and The North Star

How might Frederick Douglass's newspaper, The North Star, have fueled the anti-slavery movement?

CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.W.11-12.2

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Student Guide

Pear Deck

How Ideas Spread

CERCA Slides by Grade

Grade 3: Rules and Laws in Ashoka's Empire

How did people in Ashoka’s empire share ideas and learn about rules and laws?CCSS.RI.3.1CCSS.W.3.2

Grade 4: Town Criers Spread the News

What role did town criers play in communities in the past?CCSS.RI.4.1CCSS.W.4.2

Grade 5: "Common Sense" and the American Revolution

How did “Common Sense” change the American Revolution? CCSS.RI.5.1CCSS.W.5.2

Grade 6: The Ramayana

How did the epic poem The Ramayana communicate ideas about culture and social life in and beyond ancient South Asia? CCSS.RI.6.1CCSS.W.6.2

Grade 7: The Printing Press

How did the printing press allow for greater access to knowledge in Europe? CCSS.RI.7.1CCSS.W.7.2

Grade 8: The Indian Removal Act

How do these primary sources show the ways in which ideas about the Indian Removal Act were presented, debated, and challenged in public forums? CCSS.RI.8.1CCSS.W.8.2

Grade 9: Selling WW1 to the American Public with Posters

What visual arguments did wartime posters communicate to the American public during World War I? CCSS.RI.9-10..1CCSS.W.9-10.2

Grade 10: Fake News, Now and Then

How is 21st century "fake news" similar to and different from misinformation at other points in history? CCSS.RI.9-10..1CCSS.W.9-10.2

Grade 11: Radium Girls

How did newspaper writers of the 1920s and 1930s use rhetorical appeals to bring public attention to the plight of the Radium Girls—and, more broadly—to the idea of workplace safety? CCSS.RI.11-12.1CCSS.W.11-12.2

Grade 12: Frederick Douglass and The North Star

How might Frederick Douglass's newspaper, The North Star, have fueled the anti-slavery movement? CCSS.RI.11-12.1CCSS.W.11-12.2

Introduce ThinkCERCAinto Your Curriculum

How did people in Ashoka’s empire share ideas and learn about rules and laws?

CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.W.3.2

What role did town criers play in communities in the past?

CCSS.RI.4.1
CCSS.W.4.2

How did “Common Sense” change the American Revolution?

CCSS.RI.5.1
CCSS.W.5.2

How did the epic poem The Ramayana communicate ideas about culture and social life in and beyond ancient South Asia?

CCSS.RI.6.1
CCSS.W.6.2

How did the printing press allow for greater access to knowledge in Europe?

CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.W.7.2

How do these primary sources show the ways in which ideas about the Indian Removal Act were presented, debated, and challenged in public forums?

CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.W.8.2

What visual arguments did wartime posters communicate to the American public during World War I?

CCSS.RI.9-10..1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

How is 21st century "fake news" similar to and different from misinformation at other points in history?

CCSS.RI.9-10..1
CCSS.W.9-10.2

How did newspaper writers of the 1920s and 1930s use rhetorical appeals to bring public attention to the plight of the Radium Girls—and, more broadly—to the idea of workplace safety?

CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.W.11-12.2

How might Frederick Douglass's newspaper, The North Star, have fueled the anti-slavery movement?

CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.W.11-12.2

Introduce ThinkCERCA
into Your Curriculum