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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. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777. 2021, May 9).

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Making America whole again via civics education

The Hechinger Report

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. They go home and keep playing and playing, and it reinforces everything.”.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo!

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S.

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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.