Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

It is deeply rooted in our cultures, histories, geographies, and values. Integrating music into social studies lessons offers a dynamic and engaging way to enhance students’ understanding. Using Music to Teach History Music acts as a historical artifact. Let them become “History DJs!”

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Social Studies Teaching Primary Sources Heritage 52

C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

These pilot experiences were invaluable we observed firsthand how students engaged in compelling questions, analyzed primary sources, and developed their own interpretations of historical events. Others worried about the complexities of multilingual learners engaging with rigorous primary sources.

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Social Studies Public School Primary Sources Civic Engagement 40

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Czarnecki says.

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Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

Smithsonian's History Explorer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Visibility: shown Related Resources: Becoming US Join the Student Sit-Ins Classroom Videos Join the Student Sit-Ins Teacher Guide for the Classroom Videos National Youth Summit - Woman Suffrage: The Ballot and Beyond National Youth Summit: Abolition National Youth Summit: Dust Bowl National Youth Summit: Freedom Rides National Youth Summit: Freedom (..)

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Civic Engagement Civics History 52

Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. 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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Lesson Plan Charter School History Library 67

The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. In past years, the scores for civics have been flat, which is hardly encouraging. At the end of 2022, Congress grew the federal allocation for civic education from $7.75

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Civics Primary Sources Civic Engagement K-12 127