Zinn Education Project

APRIL 6, 2025

Make visible the history that we are defending the right to teach with mini-lessons. Mini-lessons also serve as an affirmation that we defy censorship by teaching this “banned history” in a public space. history who have resisted injustice and to learn from the range of strategies they have used.

History 52

History Critical Thinking Tradition Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there. These ideas have revived interest in E.D.

Teaching 136

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 136

Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we brought history to life with engaging EduProtocols that helped students dive deep into the Early Republic and key moments like the Whiskey Rebellion. Students brainstormed archetypes in their favorite movies, TV shows, or books and discussed how every character fits an archetype (e.g.,

Government 131

Government Social Studies Leadership History 131

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. Below is an excerpt from my book prospectus. Most importantly, the book offers an optimistic view of possibilities, even in the face of social and environmental precarity.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Geography 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to. Still, my love of history had an outlet in school. This generation of students interacts with more content than any other generation in history.

Heritage 133

Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 133

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Providing students with choices to transfer and apply their learning encourages deeper thinking and enhances their ability to communicate their understanding effectively. These choices promote active engagement, critical thinking, and the ability to connect and apply concepts in various contexts.

Social Science 152

Social Science Artifacts Museum History 152

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. How can we expect our students to become engaged citizens when they lack basic knowledge of how our country works and its history? We are not setting our children up for success.

Civics 124

Civics Education Critical Thinking History 124

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. While I share their nostalgia for a time in the history of public education when that might have been true, the damning performance by the nation’s 12th graders in U.S.

K-12 128

K-12 Civics Social Studies Geography 128

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Teachers often use this routine to deepen students’ engagement with material and to foster complex, critical thinking skills. Using See, Think, Me, We…at the Elementary Level Analyzing a Picture Book See: The teacher shows an illustration from a picture book and asks the children what they see.

Primary Sources 143

Primary Sources History Cultures Cultural Studies 143

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They came up with prompts like creating a story about a black cat and seven chickens reading a giant book, and then they used DALL-E to generate an image to go with it. The activity develops students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills.

Humanities 127

Humanities Education K-12 Critical Thinking 127

ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

Primary Sources 125

Primary Sources History World History Digital Resources 125

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

First, I moved the thousands of books cluttering my office space to storage. And we need it to function, not only for the nation’s economic future, but also to help students embrace critical thinking and diversity as we rebuild a society roiled by a pandemic, growing inequality and racial injustice.

Teaching 142

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Economics 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2024

High school curricula are meant to present a broad and foundational overview of the important tenets of each core field of knowledge: mathematics, science, literature, history and language. Call me a snob, but I would argue that we cannot and should not, especially at a level so introductory to the English literary canon as high school.

High School 129

High School Tradition Critical Thinking History 129

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. million book images from the Internet Archive. .

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. Each US History unit also include thorough 9-page worksheets packets for every unit in the curriculum.

History 52

History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 52

Moler's Musing

AUGUST 23, 2024

I was ready to move into content and the question of “Why do we study history?” Thursday I began class with a Literacy Skills Entry exam from our McGraw Hill book. I noticed two exams – Historical Thinking Skills and a Literacy Skills exam. For my original lesson on “Why do we study history?”

Artifacts 100

Artifacts History Social Studies Lesson Plan 100

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. Basic Books. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Visual Communication (pp.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy 130

ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2023

I’m tired of living through history,” a student complained. In it, he discussed why he advocated for sad scenes to be included in his picture book " Love ", which I’d brought with me to school that day. In de la Peña’s book Love, the vignettes culminate at a busy train station on a rainy day. D killin’ the vibe again.”

Elementary School 98

Elementary School History Critical Thinking Public School 98

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. Eleven individuals are driving the overwhelming majority of book challenges according to a Washington Post analysis. Here are highlights from the remarks.

Teaching 86

Teaching Social Justice Library Heritage 86

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

From Greensboro lunch counters to Tiananmen Square, youth have led significant campaigns for social and political change throughout history. Students are left with an impression of civic life as one of memorizing and adopting mainstream practices presented in history books. It’s the epitome of a teachable moment.

Civics 89

Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 89

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. The librarian who presented to her class said that the university will even mail students books—with return postage so they can mail them back. Who’s gonna check out 400 books?” Oh, look, this book over here! Never come out.”

Library 113

Library Psychology Primary Sources Humanities 113

Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2018

According to the Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum, creativity is one of the top three most important skills for future workers, along with complex problem solving and critical thinking. They can research art, history, nature, foreign countries, science fiction – and the list goes on.

Middle School 86

Middle School Critical Thinking Economics History 86

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These programs painstakingly endeavor to elevate what Chinese academic environments have long downplayed : liberal education, humanities disciplines, and skills like critical thinking. For instance, we tried to unpack the history of tombstones based on their minute traces. Could you tell me more about its history?

Anthropology 98

Anthropology History Humanities Tradition 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Instead, the companies are working with edX and others to provide what they say are the educations that all of their employees require in common, including such abilities as critical thinking and collaboration. A cookie-cutter course is not going to solve the need for creating thinking in the future.

Humanities 105

Humanities History Critical Thinking Teaching 105

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. World Flags – You may also love displaying flags from around the world if you teach World History or Current World Issues.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Civics Sociology History 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

LINC supported social science research on artists’ working conditions and career-building strategies, as well as how the for-profit cultural industries (motion pictures, recorded music, book publishers, commercial theatre) benefit from artists’ on-the-job learning in the nonprofit arts. A worthy goal we hope they’ll aspire to on their own.

Cultures 70

Cultures Economics Social Science Critical Thinking 70

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

North Philadelphia’s The LINC High School, set in an area with one of the city’s highest violent crime rates , has faced several obstacles in its short history. At The Workshop School, English teacher Swetha Narasimhan works with ninth-graders on a project in which they create an original children’s book.

Project-Based Learning 106

Project-Based Learning Leadership High School Tradition 106

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Business education, I thought, could lead the way out of this, if for no other reason than that at various points in history, business had shown itself to be responsive to a rapidly changing world. That broader view would inform their critical thinking in their respective fields. Copyright (c) 2017 by Gloria Cordes Larson.

Civics 47

Civics Tradition History Critical Thinking 47

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Teachers are supposed to make children partners in the acquisition of knowledge, helping them to see that math isn’t only — or even mainly — about right answers, it’s about exploration and discovery, and the sort of critical thinking and problem-solving they’ll do in college some day. Behind even before starting school.

K-12 85

K-12 Charter School Elementary School Economics 85

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

As the authors debated, drafted, and shaped the meaning and purpose of this book, the following questions came to the forefront: How does democratic erosion in the United States inform our teaching of political engagement? In this Author Meets Critics roundtable, we explore these questions through the lens of Engaging Citizenship.

Political Science 53

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 53

Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

So, I kept some of the previous test questions but reworded them to align with how 8th graders actually talk and think. I also added new questions focused on what we actually covered in classthings that reflected the way we analyzed history, not just the way the textbook framed it. It made Black history personal. congressman.

History 119

History Critical Thinking Research 119

TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

But beyond reading and writing skills, literacy is a gateway to critical thinking, effective communication, and holistic learning experiences. You can also read best quotes about knowledge , quotes about critical thinking , quotes about life , quotes about teaching , and quotes about learning. All books talk.

Library 272

Library Critical Thinking History Cultures 272

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting."

History 137

History Primary Sources Artifacts Social Studies 137

TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Science of Happiness: This book explores scientific insights into happiness and well-being, backed by research in positive psychology. The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: Focuses on critical thinking, scientific skepticism, and debunking pseudoscience.

Heritage 177

Heritage Psychology Museum History 177

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

In April 2020 he released a bestselling book with co-author Judy Mikovits, a discredited scientist who claim that vaccines “kill millions.” Last October the pair released another book. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.

Middle School 132

Middle School Controversial Topics Geography Political Science 132

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

In the past, he might slam a book on a desk to wake up a student, he said, but this school year he’s taking a gentler approach. Related: ‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of the pandemic. It felt like an insult after 18 months of pandemic stress, during which some students hadn’t picked up a book at all.

High School 129

High School Oral History Middle School Charter School 129