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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. maps, household objects, and the like) that can make lessons more engaging and impactful. In addition, the civic summit afforded me professional learning and the opportunity to collaborate with UGRR educational specialists.

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Studies Weekly Spotlight: Texas Teacher Shares Passion for Nonfiction

Studies Weekly

14, 2021 • Studies Weekly Sandra Bradshaw, a second-grade teacher in Texas, is in the education field because she wants to positively impact students’ lives. Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. Studies Weekly Spotlight: Texas Teacher Shares Passion for Nonfiction Jan.

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Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

The Hechinger Report

Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. Todd Brown, Florida middle school civics teacher who led a pilot virus simulation. We were really amazed by that.” Instead, the team opted for what Brown called “a light-touch approach.”

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Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

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In 2021, Siembo, along with local anthropologist and co-author George Umoja and other like-minded Rusingans, started the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization (RIPO). Teachers ask us to clarify the science for their lesson plans. It was, as Siembo says, a dream that didnt come through. Next come the questions.

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January 6th Lesson Plan for High School Social Studies

Students of History

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. However, I thought I would share an easy lesson plan that you might want to try in your high school classroom.

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

Skyler Wheeler, a conservative, has a different view on the Pulitzer Prize-winning project, which has been expanded to include reading guides and lesson plans. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. Credit: Chris Tims. But Iowa state Rep.