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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Bunk demonstrates that our discipline matters in ways young people cannot see in textbooks, static documents, and often outdated historiographic debates. Those resources present the latest discoveries from primary sources, place-based learning, graphic novels, podcasts, and videos.

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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups. If you don't have any nearby historical sites to visit, many have incredibly websites that your students can use online.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. Samuels/ The Hechinger Report “We teach factual stuff that has been documented in history,” Allison said. “Is

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

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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