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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

The next day, he thoroughly enjoyed discussing primary documents with these new friends. In the next sessions we got to relate what we saw to what we read in the documents. Lohrding, who is the only junior high social studies teacher at his rural, K 12 school, has few opportunities to share ideas with colleagues.

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Civil Conversation Protects Our Civil Rights

Teaching American History

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Amanda Peters, a 2023 MAHG graduate, teaches AP Government and AP Human Geography at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. Primary documents offer starting points for civil conversation. “I

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. She found interesting geography lessons online. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. “Too This was December.

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19 Ideas for Setting Up Your Social Studies Classroom

Let's Cultivate Greatness

I also love my 3D relief United States map , which is really helpful in explaining events and helping my students study for their semester-long US geography test series. Here’s one of a world map and one of the United States. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes.