Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website? They got duped.”.

K-12 97

K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 97

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. This story also appeared in NBC News.

Social Studies 115

Social Studies Civics History American History 115