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A New Digital Edition of Who Built America?

ASHP CML

Now available as a free, open-access digital resource, this version includes a comprehensive social history textbook alongside thousands of primary sources from our History Matters website, and new teaching resources. Working People and the Nation’s History.

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Announcing a New Digital Who Built America?

ASHP CML

A beta version is now available as a free, open-access digital resource featuring a comprehensive social history textbook supplemented by thousands of primary sources drawn from our History Matters website and new teaching resources. Working People and the Nation’s History.

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Students of History Subscription Preview

Students of History

You can see that each lesson includes a number of downloadable resources in addition to the lesson itself. Within the lessons are links to live videos, Google Docs, digital resources , and helpful websites. Some days, students are working in groups or pairs at stations to analyze a set of primary sources.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

I've thought about opening it up widely—write a historical novelette (using primary sources, of course), create a sculpture, write a song—but, again, I have no idea how to grade something like that, considering the wide range of talent that my students likely will have.

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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

For US History, that can be reading (or even listening to) this short article on the stock market crash of 1929 and then organizing the important parts of the article into their interactive notebook: This allows students to be hands on with their learning and easily combine a digital resource with a paper/pencil activity.

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims.

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