Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2019

Our students are inundated with media, but how many of them are able to differentiate between a news article and an opinion piece or recognize bias in the media? I would argue this is a critical skill we need to be teaching in schools to ensure that our students develop the skills necessary to be informed consumers of media.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Learning through Text-Based Discussions At the time, Boles used primary source documents to a limited extent. Two years into the MAHG program, Boles began to add more primary source documents to her courses. These veteran teachers are inspiring me to learn more and teach better. “Nullification.despotism.”

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Also, if you’re interested in how AI can be used effectively in education, check out an article I contributed to in EdWeek: Can AI Be Used Effectively in Class? This part helped students connect primary source analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

” Primary Source Analysis Worksheets Download these free easy-to-use worksheets that help students analyze various types of sources and bring their stories to life. Musical Storytelling : Turn primary sources like letters or diary entries into song lyrics. Let them become “History DJs!”

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Excerpts for discussion, a pre-webinar discussion board, and links to webinar recordings and relevant primary sources will be made available to registrants. Our webinars meet monthly on select Saturday mornings from 10.45am12pm ET. hours of professional development.

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Leah Cleary

MAY 29, 2025

Whether students are writing historical narratives, analyzing primary sources, or just trying to make sense of todays world, understanding context is foundational. Here’s a good article about the importance of context in history. But this skill goes beyond AP.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

3 Human-recorded audio with synchronized highlighting on Studies Weekly Online Primary Source Analysis Worksheets Download these free easy-to-use worksheets that help students analyze various types of sources and bring their stories to life. Comprehension questions follow each online article.

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 30, 2025

Heres the flow : Students engage with content a primary source, textbook excerpt, or short video. They ask a question based on the reading or viewingeither one they create or one I provide (especially if the source leaves something unanswered or unclear). Push It Further: How could this answer be stronger? More accurate?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! My district has dropped our textbook and we are switching to primary sources. There is a dizzying number of websites out there that promote the use of primary sources.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked. Especially in a social studies classroom where I’m working with a lot of primary sources, sometimes it's hard to figure out how to break down that language so that English learners are still accessing the same content but not losing the academic vocabulary.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

Historical Events: When studying historical events, people, or places encourage students to analyze primary sources. Media and Current Events: Use this with news articles or multimedia sources. Historical Perspectives: When studying historical events, encourage students to analyze multiple sources and perspectives.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In October, Czarnecki’s article “Migrant Music” was published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Probing the Historical Portrait of Migrant Farmworkers Czarnecki’s article examines the popular portrait of midwestern farmworkers who migrated to California in the 1930s, a portrait drawn by historians, folklore collectors, and Steinbeck’s novel.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 6, 2024

Background readings, a pre-webinar discussion board, and links to webinar recordings and relevant primary sources will be made available to registrants. Teaching American History’s exhibit, The Election of 1912 , recounts the history of this three-way election with data, maps, images, historical essays and primary sources.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

I suggested students start playing with ChatGPT and provided a set of articles about how LLMs work, including how to prompt them to generate comparisons or lists and how to cite AI tools. This particular tool allows users to upload their own documents—course readings, research articles, archives, etc.—so respectively. respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website? Will students investigate the sources of controversial claims? Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook?

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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.

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History Tech

MAY 24, 2023

Recent news articles are highlighting a request to ban access by Florida elementary students to Amanda Gorman’s poem A Hill We Climb. The reason for the request? “it is not educational and have indirectly hate messages.” ” The specific passage that “have indirectly hate messages”?

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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. Government: PP.2.USG.2 Constitution SC.3.USG.5

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 16, 2024

Edited by Jeremy Bailey and intended as a secondary and post-secondary document reader, American Presidency contains 39 introduced and edited primary sources, discussion questions, and a thematic table of contents. Article Two states, “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. A 1988 newspaper article notes Issaquena’s 13 public schools closed, too. Do we want the kids to stay? What they gonna stay here for?” Unless his grandchildren want to work on a farm, it’s hard to say.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

One school in Connecticut reported that many of their teachers had to start the 2022 school year with the basics — showing students how to hold a book, or reviewing the ABCs and letter sounds, according to a 2022 New York Times article by Dana Goldstein. Hogan in the New York Times article.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

They love playing the game after reading an article online or in the magazine. So the kids were really into that project that we came up with. And it was just again, very easy to use, very engaging. The kids enjoyed it. So everybody’s engaged and we give the thumbs up, thumbs down.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

So when one student says she plans to study the Bermuda Triangle, the professor recommends that she ask a librarian—maybe the one who talked to the class earlier in the semester—to help her curate a reading list of secondary sources. You don’t want to read 30 articles,” the professor says, “you want to read seven.”

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

For example, I will have students read an online article and complete an interactive notebook graphic organizer based on what they read. One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups.

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Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

6th insurrection at the Capitol (I have a lesson for this here ), I came across an article about the only "successful" coup or insurrection in US History. After reviewing the sources, they will need to decide if this event is best defined as a riot, uprising, coup d’état, or insurrection. Following the Jan.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

An Interactive Notebook allows students to organize and connect their learning by writing notes, drawing pictures, and pasting in articles and printable worksheets. I love using these companion printables with my lessons with the option of students using them into their interactive notebooks. What is an Interactive Notebook?

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Texas Superintendent Quintin Shepherd told the New York Times in a 2023 article, “If kids are not here, they are not forming relationships,” he said. Absent classmates negatively impact all students, regardless of performance level. Student absenteeism is even tied to the rise in emotional and behavioral problems.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

One of the benefits to learning through primary sources is developing an ability to understand others as they would understand themselves, so set aside time to make sure you reveal this ability in your responses. For what purpose was it written? Who was its intended audience? What effect did it have?

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers.

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Leah Cleary

JANUARY 28, 2024

For more on this, check out this article in Slate. Our prompt was: “Please summarize the key points of this primary source for me.” I’m no Pollyanna, and I’m painfully aware of the destructive potential of AI, but I do see a silver lining to this storm cloud.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Thus, many of the primary sources after the ratification of the Constitution concern various rules governing debate, which bills can be sent to the floor, what powers the committees will have, and so forth. But the manner in which the rules are set up determines who wields the power in Congress.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A Teacher’s Influence “Because of MAHG, I’ve begun using way more primary sources,” Livingston says. She decorates her classroom with red, white and blue crepe paper and hands out pocket Constitutions, telling her government students that “this will be your textbook for the rest of the year.”

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

On Independence Day, we watched a “ bipartisan reading of the Declaration of Independence ” organized by legislator and educator Sean Brennan , representative to Ohio’s House of Representatives for District 14.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The Great Compromise Organizer Students read a brief article about the Great Compromise, identifying: The issue at stake The two opposing sides The compromise itself This activity helped them see how differing viewpoints shaped the structure of Congress and highlighted the balance of interests between large and small states.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

To counter this, teachers emphasize the inverted pyramid style, which prioritizes placing the most crucial information at the beginning of the article, or even in the headline. I often weave these historical narratives into content through primary sources. Make History Personal Alex's great-grandfather's World War I helmet.

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