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Using Snorkl to Deepen Historical Thinking in the Classroom

Moler's Musing

Image & Source Analysis (8 Parts) A picture is worth a thousand wordsbut only if students know how to analyze it! Post a primary source image (painting, political cartoon, propaganda poster) on Snorkl and have students: Identify nouns, adjectives, and verbs within the image. Answer sourcing questions ( Who wrote this?

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

It’s been a huge time saver, especially since it allowed me to focus more on the classroom and less on the stress of documenting every detail. This part helped students connect primary source analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

Simplifying Primary Sources with AI My goal was to simplify the lesson while still helping students build confidence and learn. The revised documents were a mix of Jamestown and Plymouth hardships and survival stories. They worked in pairs, reading the sources and answering questions.

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Classroom Based Assessments – Where to start

Doing Social Studies

One, offer examples of websites to use in your classroom, and two, provide a few rules to guide your excerpting of documents. First up, the LOC (aka Library of Congress): The Library of Congress has an amazing treasure trove of primary source materials. Still further, if I use excerpts, how much is too much to cut?

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

Angela Jenks guided medical anthropology students through an analysis of direct-to-consumer artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) medical apps like Symptomate and DermAssist, teaching them to analyze this emerging technology while situating these apps in their historical, social, and economic contexts.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org. In Lawrence, our city commission race is non-partisan.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. My class would be in YouTube heaven.