NCHE

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. One example of the work that will be presented in The Source is students’ discoveries in their hometown of Thomaston, Georgia.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Incorporate Inquiry-Based Learning: Engage students in discussions, debates, and primary source analysis to deepen comprehension and critical thinking. The next blog in this series explores how inquiry-based learning fosters reading comprehension and critical thinking.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2022

This blog is the second in a series sharing our Maker Learning team’s experience designing and facilitating this professional learning experience. In our previous blog , we shared how our team designed the Maker Learning @ Home cohort professional learning opportunity.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

With everything happening, I decided to take my weekly activities, add a quick description, and let AI handle the blog writing. 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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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 27, 2023

I love it—you can take primary sources that you find on the internet, paste in the URL and the program will generate the source with questions, both multiple choice and short answer. You can adjust the length of the source. Some primary sources are just too long for our kids, so the "shorten" function really helps.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Reading Integration: Use informational texts, primary sources, and document analysis to enhance comprehension and critical thinking. Successful integration requires strategic planning and professional development to ensure teachers feel confident in implementing this approach.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The story maps are engaging and include images, maps, graphs, and primary sources presented in an engaging manner like the excerpt below from the First Crusade story map.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

For most of their education, my students have spent their days in classrooms where the teacher was the primary source of information. But the biggest challenge is trying to get my students to rethink what it means to be a learner and rethink what learning looks like.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Examining primary sources about the looting, Thompson notes that one soldier wrote his mother that in one monastery " I got rather a nice gong which no doubt you will find useful when I am able to get it home." Thompson notes that in 1903 the British led a force into Tibet and killed over 600 Tibetian soldiers with Maxim machine guns.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

In a series of blogs, I’ll be exploring each thinking routine and providing suggestions for how teachers across grade levels can harness the power of these thinking routines with students. Historical Events: When studying historical events, people, or places encourage students to analyze primary sources.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

If you’ve visited my blog, you know that social studies is my first love. So, this blog post was born. My goal for this blog post is to give you loads of social studies journal prompt ideas and maybe inspire you to create some journal prompts of your own! Thank you for visiting my blog post!

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In addition, teachers often gather a multitude of resources, such as primary source documents, to supplement a curriculum. Learn more about Monica Burns at ClassTechTips.com and read our other blog posts featuring her expertise on 5 easy ways to use edtech tools.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. History and Social Studies See: Students analyze details of a primary source, like a historical letter or photograph, including date, author, and content.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 17, 2025

The 4QM team wrote our own narratives for all the Question One lessons, edited primary sources for all the Question Twos, researched data for all the Question Threes, and hashed out all the Question Fours. If youre reading this blog you probably know that HQIM stands for High Quality Instructional Materials. Its all there.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

With the internet, students can access primary source documents, research just about anything, and support their own understanding with explanations accompanied by video, animations, or other helpful visualizations. Access Resources. Use Professional Tools.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But where do I find the necessary materials to either curate the sources myself or send the students to curate sources themselves? Additionally, if I am curating the sources can I use excerpts? My goal, for this blog post is twofold. Clicking the Growth topic will take you to subjects with connections to primary sources.

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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. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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US Government Teachers Blog

JULY 27, 2023

I love it—you can take primary sources that you find on the internet, paste in the URL and the program will generate the source with questions, both multiple choice and short answer. You can adjust the length of the source. Some primary sources are just too long for our kids, so the "shorten" function really helps.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When our site pops up in the search results, and they click on our site, they see that we have thousands of primary source documents, many accompanied by introductions and study questions. Ray is a former Teacher Program Manager for TAH and a frequent contributor to our blog.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 16, 2024

In honor of the Iowa caucus and the impending presidential election, this week’s blog features one of our CDC volumes, The American Presidency. Download it today from our bookstore !

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this combined blog post, I’ll delve into the overarching themes that have shaped my teaching philosophy and share insights into my go-to EduProtocols that have fostered engagement in my classroom. Developing Critical Thinking & Analysis A cornerstone of my teaching approach has been the emphasis on historical analysis.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For those students—the majority—who choose the qualifying exam, we offer in this blog a preview of the exam’s structure and advice on how to perform well on it. Remember also that when we read primary sources, we try to understand their authors as they understood themselves. Did it achieve its author’s purpose?

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Students of History

JUNE 5, 2023

You can read more about review Clue in this blog post or download a pre-made set for US History here. These 9-page packets are perfect for an EOC review because they include maps, vocabulary, people, images, timelines, and primary sources to analyze. Clue : I love using this game based on the popular board game and movie.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We’ve written and blogged extensively on storyboarding , which is an excellent tool for engaging students in discourse while answering Question One. The thinking skill associated with Question Two is interpretation, and in high school we’re usually interpreting a primary source document. The post Want Discourse?

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

In this blog series, we will look at these pillars. As post-pandemic reading success has declined across the United States, more schools are embracing The Science of Reading, a body of research and scientific evidence based on five main pillars, help us understand how children learn to read. The first one we’ll discuss is Phonemic Awareness.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

In my last blog post, I shared with you a description of my pedagogical approach and provided an example. Thomas intends “to spend my entire life convincing them how exciting and important history is.” His bio picture is daughter Claire and Thomas meeting President Lincoln.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Here’s what it looks like in 3 cities Hess and Jal Mehta, a professor of education at Harvard University, routinely debate big issues in education, often from opposing viewpoints, on their blog , “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal.” We will have had this meaningful scholarly discussion that’s based in history and primary sources,” she said.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Today’s blog is an edited excerpt from the introduction to TAH’s CDC volume, Congress , edited by Joseph Postell , available in our bookstore for free download or purchase. Joseph Postell What’s wrong with our Congress? Judging by its approval ratings over the past decade, Congress has lost the support of the American people.

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