ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Unfortunately, this portrayal isn't unique and reflects a broader issue with how social studies is perceived. In their book, “ Made to Stick ”, Chip and Dan Heath reveal that journalism students often overlook the lead of a story by focusing too much on trying to understand every detail. Photo courtesy of Alex Brouhard.

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History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Both the book and SHEG outlined a social studies instructional concept, that at the time, was pretty revolutionary.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. 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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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Look for books on behaviors you want students to learn and read them to your class. You can decorate your Calm Down corner with posters or have books on self-regulation skills for students to read. Some children understand behavioral concepts better when explained through stories.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

To ensure that instructional materials are easily accessible to educators, AAAJ Chicago convened a working group of Asian American educators and community leaders that compiled a database of Asian American history resources that showcases a range of materials from picture books to documentaries and primary sources.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

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

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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. This is where Studies Weekly can help. Many teachers notice this same struggle.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

Take some time for yourself to be outdoors, read that book you have been waiting to pick up, or catch up on some much-needed sleep. New Life Skills Curriculum If you would like additional ideas to help you with your students’ well-being or your own, take a look at Studies Weekly’s Health and Wellness curriculum.

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Heritage Primary Sources Lesson Plan Elementary School 59

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Saun also wrote the book My Mother India , where he criticized British imperialism in India and narrated his experiences at his homeland. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Engaging Learning Materials Learning Resources Stock the classroom with books, games, and learning materials that cater to different interests and reading levels. Start searching now in the early summer for new finds to add to your centers and class library!

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Teachers of history and social studies on all grade levels know they want students to do more than just memorize facts; they want students to practice thinking about history as well. And as citizens of a democracy, we want our students to be able to grapple with history, politics, and social and civic questions actively and critically.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. Mayo Clinic Health System. Delgado, P.,

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4QM Teaching

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I recently had the pleasure of giving a workshop with our friend and colleague Art Worrell , the history curriculum leader for the Uncommon Schools network and co-author of a new book on secondary school history teaching. After establishing the story, we interpreted a primary source to try to answer Question Two, “What were they thinking?”

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Science of Reading: Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Aug 26, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Reading has the wondrous power to transport us across time and space. The stories and characters we meet within the pages of books teach us about our world, ourselves, and others. Unraveling the differences: Phonological awareness vs. phonics.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and social studies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both. In the earlier grades we are often looking at a pattern of behavior or an artifact.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. I had read Clint Smith’s book last year and was blown away by how the history is handled at many of the highlighted locations and his extreme attention to detail. History I and II to 10th and 11th graders, respectively.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While they're sometimes belittled, worksheets are an excellent tool for helping students analyze primary sources or better understand a historical event through a secondary source. They also all assess studies skills like cause-and-effect, interpreting sources, understanding timelines, and working on map skills.

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Social Studies Success

JANUARY 6, 2022

Explore his ideas with primary source clues where students can match images to excerpts from Washington’s Farewell Address – practice skills and learn content at the same time! Your students will make a book highlighting the causes and effects of the War of 1812. What about Washington’s Farewell Address ?

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Whitaker to discuss his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. You write about how that census was then used in the 1890s by the statistician Frederick Hoffman in his book, Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. And she publishes a book called Southern Horrors.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. She’s really the first person, and she publishes a book called Southern Horrors. Du Bois’s work on Reconstruction. The second is W.

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