Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As we reboot Doing Social Studies, we’d love to introduce you to this month’s author, Nathan McAlister. Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. State Archives!! :

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Rachel comes to the GC with a background in education, and in teaching history/social studies. She holds an MA in Museum Studies and an MA in History, and she is a longtime volunteer at the LGBT Community Center National History Archives.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. the New York State Archives and Museum , and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site ) is essential to my instructional practice.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Check out these resources to learn more about efforts to incorporate and preserve LGBTQ+ history topics in our classrooms: SHEC (Social History Project for Every Classroom): [link] Make it Better for Youth: [link] Garden State Equality: [link] Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in United States History: [link] GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education (..)

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class. The consultants were not social studies experts. I noticed something strange, however. It’s not their fault, really.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Rachel comes to the GC with a background in education, and in teaching history/social studies. She holds an MA in Museum Studies and an MA in History, and she is a longtime volunteer at the LGBT Community Center National History Archives.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Constitution Political Cartoon activity from the National Archives This fun activity has students connect sections of the Constitution to specific political cartoons from the early to mid 20th century. Connections to Arkansas Social Studies Standards: Civics: CPI.1.C.3 3 Analyze the rationale for the structure of the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states. Sign Up to Host an Event 3.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. And while social studies curricula differ vastly across the U.S., Buddington’s team wrote the curriculum and helped with the archive research that accompanies the Kinfolk app. Subscribe today!

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. There are also countless historic sites that are unmarked such as a freeway that destroyed a neighborhood or a university building funded by enslaved labor. Sign Up to Host a Table or an Event 3.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

While the measure wouldn’t guarantee that every child in the state gets a week at outdoor school, a summer-camp like experience with a focus on science and social emotional skill building, it would make such an offer possible for every interested school district, as was first reported by The Hechinger Report in this story from our archives.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Brandon Grijalva High School Social Studies Teacher, Chicago, Illinois While teaching AP U.S.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And since it’s a bit complicated, it’s a great topic to spend a few days on because there are so many ways to practice critical thinking and general social studies skills. Washington State Archives) The post 5 Activities Ideas for Teaching the Electoral College appeared first on Let's Cultivate Greatness.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. history and social studies curriculums. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. From the Archives 1948: To the Editors of The New York Times by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, et al. Independence or Catastrophe?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The evolution in thinking on the value of bilingual education and the specifics of the voter proposition was covered in depth by The Hechinger Report in this story from our archives. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. And of course, history and social studies teachers. Talk about how this Progressive era initiative was used to address the roots of crime for European immigrants, and how that same analysis wasn’t extended to Black people. I want to be mindful of teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The growth of “Course Choice” initiatives in various states was chronicled in depth by The Hechinger Report last year, in this story from our archives. — It remains to be seen whether a Trump Administration will boost them further, using federal policy. The editors.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. And of course, history and social studies teachers. I was hoping you could talk about how this Progressive era initiative was used to address the roots of crime for European immigrants, and how that same analysis wasn’t extended to Black people?

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