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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. Primary sources are excellent tools to help students learn how to think like historians. Students should know that their family records are also primary sources!

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For Native Americans, Unequal Child Care Funding Leaves Tribes in Need

ED Surge

Intersection of Less Funding and Less Employment As it currently stands, tribal child counts help divvy up dollars from the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the primary source of child care funding in the U.S. Baesler has seen firsthand the impact that culturally relevant curriculum has on older students.

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Resources for Teaching the Presidential Election

Teaching American History

Edited by Jeremy Bailey and intended as a secondary and post-secondary document reader, American Presidency contains 39 introduced and edited primary sources, discussion questions, and a thematic table of contents. Download it today from our bookstore ! Korea (1950) Yoo, On the President’s Constitutional Authority.

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. Giving students this trust creates a partnership of learning and growth between students and the teacher.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

In 2013, Senator Inouye was awarded posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more. He lost his right arm in the war.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The other two textbooks are “Mississippi: Portrait of an American State,” published in 1999, and “A Place Called Mississippi,” from 2013. Related: Have lessons about Mississippi’s violent past become optional? She wanted to center the unit not only on the famous names — Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources. I mean, one of the big problems with the so-called AP African American Studies curriculum was the debate over what was a primary source versus secondary source.