Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar. It would give them time to think about American principles while learning to read primary documents. The game illuminated the primary documents Thrailkill read to prepare for it.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

documented the often negative effects of “modernization” and “progress” on indigenous peoples around the world. Even today there is concern that our easy access to affordable goods is based on “cheap labor” in other parts of the world – and sometimes also in the United States. Bodley, in his book Victims of Progress, 2 nd Ed.,

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

But space is limited, so this article will close by pointing to the need for depth in civic education studies, and to the need to establish and reestablish the foundation for ethics in our government and society. But this, too, is subject to differing interpretations and applications. The intent here is not to end on a note of pessimism.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. The need for better early childhood and elementary school interventions is well documented, but that does not imply giving up on adolescents.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Fifty-seven percent of college graduates failed a civic literacy exam. It’s not that we don’t know what our students are learning as much as it is that we’re having to talk about it, document it, represent it in a broader way for a larger audience.”. The Spellings Commission found evidence that “the quality of student learning at U.S.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

The idea of natural law and natural rights appeared in ancient Greek philosophy and was addressed by philosophers in various periods of Western history.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan’s past students have created and led several civic and historical preservation projects. One, offer examples of websites to use in your classroom, and two, provide a few rules to guide your excerpting of documents. CitationTip: at the bottom of each Pdf document is the necessary citation for the source. Let’s get started.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. Washington University in St.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. I was first introduced to UGRR at the SUNY Buffalo State College Civic Summit when their educational specialists presented “Lessons from the Field: The Legal Geography of Slavery.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

She envisions asking her students to document the resources like green space and trash bins available in their community, and write letters to their city council representative to get more of what the neighborhood needs. Her school is in East New York, a primarily Black and Hispanic neighborhood with high rates of childhood asthma.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2018

These audiences were built under fire – literally – as the Parkland students documented their horror in real time on social media platforms (ironically provoking accusations of being planted professional actors even as they shocked and evoked compassion in others). Young people are responding, and they will not be silent.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But that’s not creating any real meaning for them, especially if your high school Civics students are somewhat familiar with them already. Below is my dig-deeper lesson sequence for teaching the different types of government in my on-level Civics class. So, let’s do better and create fun and engaging of this standard.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Sean Brennan Brennan, a frequent participant in Teaching American History seminars , has long promoted civic education and civil cooperation at the local and state level. As a teacher, he appreciated Teaching American History’s free seminars featuring scholar-led discussion of primary documents.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s a natural fit for a school community whose mission includes cultivating and cherishing “an environment that supports the academic, social-emotional, creative and civic learning” of all students. Special needs students use GIS to help them understand and document tasks in their day.

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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. I also have them for Civics or Sociology. You know it’s a key concept if it comes up throughout all your units.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Students can also explore biographical information for several individuals whose ideas influenced the nation’s founding documents. Connections to Arkansas Social Studies Standards: Civics: CPI.1.C.3 1 Analyze historical documents and events that set the ideological foundations for the U.S. Constitution PD.4.C.3

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

And a committee of the principal national faculty union is at work on a position paper documenting problems with some dual-enrollment programs. “I Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. The document is no longer on the university’s website, but is available from a web archive.).

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

These activities include: Sourcing documents Drag & drop timelines Analyzing primary and secondary sources Interpreting and inserting images Notetaking Comparing and contrasting topics 4. Engaging Activities - All of the same great activities from the old digital notebooks are back with some awesome updates to them as well.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 13, 2024

This creative prep work got students engaged with the foundational document in advance, even in a condensed 30-minute window. Despite some confusion sorting through the complex document, students were fully engaged throughout the 30 minutes. Given time constraints, I used some streamlined protocols shared by teacher Justin Unruh.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

I was very excited to have them reflect on these documents and then create letters to send to policy makers advising them on the situation. Based on the compelling arguments in those past documents, I was sure students would be suggesting that policy makers shut things down. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This would allow both the “expert groups” and the “Jigsaw groups” to document and share their learning. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. In this setting, providing the students with a teacher-created digital template or collaboration page would be ideal.

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ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

2 Evaluate the impact of advancements in technology, investments in capital goods, and investments in human capital on economic growth and standards of living Civics: PD.4.C.1 1 Analyze historical documents and events that set the ideological foundations for the U.S. Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EDM.1.E.1

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups. In my complete curricula for Civics , World , and US History I have a variety of assessment resources along with digital Google Forms options for each unit to help you out.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Examples from prior years: The study group hosted by the Mesa Education Association in Arizona created a resource document for the members of the Association to support Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action. The ideas above are suggestions.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. Teaching America’s story with thoroughness, but without bias, is simpler with primary documents. Middle schoolers are still young enough to want the occasional hug, but old enough to have interesting conversations with.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Primary documents give us unexpected perspectives on history. Landen Schmeichel sees this often when using documents in his Advanced Placement US History course at Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. Liberty and Equality: Ideas That Shaped America Primary documents prompt reflection on powerful ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. For project-based civic learning, there’s the web-based “Civic Action Project” (CAP) created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He sat down with Ellen Tucker to discuss how teachers can use the volume in their government or civics classrooms. If a teacher were to say to you, I’ve got time to use only two or three documents from your collection in my one-semester government class, which documents would you suggest the teacher select?

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Political Science Now

JULY 26, 2024

They document how structures within sport in higher education create hurdles for bottom-up, top-down, or outside-in demands for change and ultimately call for institutional change if equality is to be achieved. He is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Some of my favorite worksheets to use in American History include: Germantown Quaker Anti-Slavery Petition Document Analysis Crevecoeur's "What is an American?" In addition to the US History curriculum , there are also similar curricula available for World History and American Government / Civics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As a parent and as a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, I’ve seen firsthand how important civic knowledge is to young people — and how it is lacking. Nationwide assessments reveal that civic knowledge hasn’t improved since 1998, with only 23 percent of eighth graders performing at or above the “proficient” level.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. Then, over time, C3 gained momentum in all the right ways.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

What happens when teachers ask students to read the primary documents of our founding carefully, constructing their own account of our system? All of these teachers were drawn to MAHG by its focus on primary documents, and most began teaching more consistently from primary documents after beginning the program.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

What happens when teachers ask students to read the primary documents of our founding carefully, constructing their own account of our system? All of these teachers were drawn to MAHG by its focus on primary documents, and most began teaching more consistently from primary documents after beginning the program.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. While I haven’t had time to process and filter into my teaching everything I was exposed to, some primary documents I learned about through MAHG have become essential texts.”

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