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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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Where to Find Stuff on tah.org: Document Page

Teaching American History

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history. in the TAH bookstore.

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TEACHER VOICE: When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada

The Hechinger Report

Education is a provincial responsibility in Canada and is highly centralized by the Alberta government. The curriculum is developed and coordinated by government officials and staff, but the writing is done largely by committees of practicing teachers according to agreed-upon directives (a broad curriculum revision is currently underway now).

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19 Ideas for Setting Up Your Social Studies Classroom

Let's Cultivate Greatness

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.

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COLUMN: ‘Stand by.’ ‘Shut up.’ Is this really what we want to teach our children?

The Hechinger Report

I’d hoped by watching the candidates discuss government, leadership and the most important issues facing our world, he would learn something positive. Telling a troublemaker to shut up displays a lack of classroom management — and maybe leadership — skills. But it was no teaching moment.

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