Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

First up, the LOC (aka Library of Congress): The Library of Congress has an amazing treasure trove of primary source materials. Upon entering the collection, you are presented with five tabs near the top of the page covering Growth, Peoples, Economics, Ideas, and American. State Archives!! :

Primary Sources 67

Primary Sources Archiving Library American History 67

ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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Primary Sources Civics Archiving Government 52

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Angela Jenks guided medical anthropology students through an analysis of direct-to-consumer artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) medical apps like Symptomate and DermAssist, teaching them to analyze this emerging technology while situating these apps in their historical, social, and economic contexts.

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Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 105

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. Karen Brink-Noonan Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Valatie, New York I have used the Thingamabob Game in both my economics class and my U.S. At the conclusion of the game, we hold a discussion on how the game went.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98