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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

4QM Teaching

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources. I noticed something strange, however.