History Tech

MARCH 20, 2023

And the 2023 version did not disappoint. Just so you know. Huge March Madness fan. First four days of the tournament rank right up there with the NCSS conference, Fourth of July, and the winter holidays. Would have liked KU to have done better but otherwise loving the upsets. But somewhere in between Princeton knocking […]

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History Primary Sources Lesson Plan 100

Civics for All of US

MAY 4, 2023

Interrogating Presidential Photos Katie Munn Thu, 05/04/2023 - 13:32 Body Since John F. Kennedy, most Presidents have had an official photographer, resulting in a wealth of primary source material.

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Primary Sources Museum Library Cultures 52

Civics for All of US

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Bill of Rights for Elementary Educators Katie Munn Wed, 01/25/2023 - 13:32 Body Explore how to engage elementary students with primary sources from the holdings of the National Archives that demonstrate the power of student voices. The First Amendment and You!

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Primary Sources Archiving Education Elementary School 52

Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

The Bill of Rights Workshop for Elementary Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:19 Body Kids have rights! This online workshop will explore how to engage young learners in the active exploration of primary sources that teach about the rights embodied in the Bill of Rights.

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Primary Sources Civics Education Elementary School 52

Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

We the People: Teaching the Constitution Workshop for Elementary Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 07:46 Body Looking closely at the Preamble of the Constitution, teachers will work with primary sources from the National Archives and consider how the interpretation of “We the People” has changed over time.

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Primary Sources Archiving Teaching K-12 52

Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

The Bill of Rights Workshop for Secondary Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body Participants in this online workshop will study the history of the Bill of Rights by analyzing primary sources.

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Primary Sources Civics Archiving Education 52

Civics for All of US

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Addressing Racial Discrimination in Voting During the Kennedy Administration Katie Munn Mon, 09/11/2023 - 12:38 Body Investigate primary source material from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to learn how citizens and government officials used the tools of democracy to challenge racial discrimination in voting.

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Primary Sources Museum Lesson Plan Library 52

Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

Teaching the Bill of Rights for Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body A virtual professional development workshop for K–12 educators. This online workshop will explore how to engage learners of all grade levels in the active exploration of primary sources that teach about the rights embodied in the Bill of Rights.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 Civics 52

ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

But the funds ran out in September 2023. Revenue and Subsidies Gale’s primary source of revenue is what she collects from the families who use her center, with some additional funding from the state for families who qualify for a subsidy. We see a lot of kids who are sleeping on a bare mat,” Gale says.

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K-12 Government Primary Sources Advocacy 132

ASHP CML

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A year later, in May 2023, we organized virtual meetings with some of those teachers. In July 2022, ASHP/CML hosted the first LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States summer institute for k-12 teachers.

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Primary Sources K-12 History Professional Development 52

Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

In 2023, 26% of all public school students in the United States were chronically absent. Texas Superintendent Quintin Shepherd told the New York Times in a 2023 article, “If kids are not here, they are not forming relationships,” he said. One of the most pervasive issues is chronic student absenteeism. Blad, Evie.

Heritage 52

Heritage Primary Sources K-12 Social Studies 52

Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

After their state standards were updated in 2023, the two teachers implemented Studies Weekly Social Studies. They share this passion with thousands of other teachers through their shared Instagram account (@doubledutyteachers) and their annual Teach Out Loud conference.

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Heritage Primary Sources Social Studies Lesson Plan 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Your Studies Weekly Online classroom contains digital versions of your publications and more online resources like digital lesson plans, videos, and presentations you can project to the whole class.

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Artifacts Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies 52

Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

19, 2023 • By Studies Weekly Even before the start of the pandemic, national reading scores were dropping. The Nationwide Reading Struggle Jan. Now, with schools back in-person, many teachers are seeing the toll the pandemic took on students’ reading abilities.

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Heritage Social Studies Primary Sources Lesson Plan 52

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A Teacher’s Influence “Because of MAHG, I’ve begun using way more primary sources,” Livingston says. Livingston finished her MAHG degree in August 2023. They give you history straight from the horse’s mouth, not somebody’s interpretation. I can say to students, ‘Here is what Lincoln said; what do you think about that?’

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

Check out this list of lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website during the 2023–2024 school year! In the follow-up lesson, students explore primary sources that reveal key outcomes of the Reconstruction era. How do we know?

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Primary Sources Government History Humanities 58

The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

It encourages students to answer even the most challenging questions about our country’s past and present by engaging with primary sources to learn a more complete history of the United States and its constitutional democracy from multiple perspectives. The roadmap is now being put into practice in school districts across the country.

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Civics Primary Sources Civic Engagement K-12 129

Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2023

Executive Orders and Civil Rights Katie Munn Wed, 01/11/2023 - 14:47 Body During this online workshop with the Truman Presidential Library and Eisenhower Presidential Library, teachers will examine primary sources to discover how and why presidents have issued executive orders to advance civil rights.

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Primary Sources Library Education 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources. TeachTruth #BHM2022 pic.twitter.com/LFDfO1qcQM — Valencia Abbott (@vannabbott) November 8, 2022 In my U.S.

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History Education History Education Social Studies 52

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Writing with ChatGPT (Christopher Lowman) In fall 2023, I taught an anthropological writing course playfully titled Writing a Time-Traveler’s Travel Guide. College writing in 2023 means reckoning with students’ use of ChatGPT. Ultimately, students wrote reflections on their use of ChatGPT, including both creative and practical aspects.

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Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. “I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class.

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History American History Teaching K-12 98

ASHP CML

MARCH 28, 2025

Stay tuned for more documents in the coming weeks both on our website and on our primary source database, Social History for Every Classroom. secretly built Thule Air Base (renamed Pituffik Space Base in 2023 to recognize the Inuit community that previously lived there). and Greenland. acquiring Greenland, I felt puzzled.

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Primary Sources History Economics History Education 40

ASHP CML

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Stay tuned for more documents in the coming weeks both on our website and on our primary source database, Social History for Every Classroom. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) originally proposed the bill, then known as the Equality Act, in 2019; when re-introduced in 2023, Jayapal was joined by 124 co-sponsors, all Democrats.

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