Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You can find over 50 primary source worksheets and resources here to use throughout the school year so that every unit in your US history curriculum includes these activities to improve reading comprehension and analytical skills. Each curriculum includes hundreds of activities you can immediately implement into your classes!

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History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 52

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. you will at least have a basic understanding of how constitutional government works.”

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Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

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. 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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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The next day, we dove into the document analysis activity compiled by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. After going over key terms and background information (as suggested by Wolfe-Rocca in the PDF version of the activity), I arranged my students in groups of four and they investigated six of the included documents.

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History Teaching Social Studies Middle School 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Meanwhile, according to documents published by WHYY shortly after the election, school administrators were imposing new restrictions. They led a letter-writing campaign requesting Pennsylvania government officials investigate “school board overreach in Pennridge.” Then there was the curriculum.

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Education Policy Education Advocacy History 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Conservatives tend to believe there are core dates and documents that students must be acquainted with to participate fully in American democracy. Liberals value civic knowledge, too, but tend to spend more time connecting history to current events. If people are fighting about history, that shows that it’s important,” he said.

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