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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Teachers can share any entry, or collection of entries, from Bunk with students, who can also explore the evolving archives for themselves. Our other big project, New American History , under the direction of Annie Evans, addresses the time and confidence challenges in different ways.

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How does an NCHE Colloquium come together?

NCHE

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Francis has spent years translating Spanish records and uploading them to a remarkable website entitled La Florida: The Interactive Digital Archive of the Americas. appeared first on ncheteach.org.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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In Philadelphia, a symbol of police brutality comes down, and a monument to black student protesters will go up

The Hechinger Report

The following year, she took African American history, a required course in Philadelphia schools that is an enduring legacy of the 1967 walkouts. It sounds weird, a 17-year old girl going to the archives with her friends for fun. At Temple University’s Urban Archives, the girls combed through boxes of old news clippings.

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Classroom Based Assessments – Where to start

Doing Social Studies

These include three pieces of Kansas Legislation, a Civil War mural, a Civil War Veterans Kansas preservation project, many National History Day projects, and four award-winning Lowell Milken for Unsung Heroes projects. Clicking the Growth topic will take you to subjects with connections to primary sources. State Archives!! :

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E.

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Constitution Day Resources

ACRE

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today.