Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Why is Lincolns Fragment on the Constitution and Union one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but its profound enough to be worth discussing with older students as well. The Constitution is the silver frame around the more important document from our Founding.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The fact for many in education is that we teach the way we were taught and lead the way we were led. I am fortunate to be involved in several long-term projects where I have been able to document growth over time. When we visited his history class, he again had the students working on a choice board.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! But I feel overwhelmed when I look all the documents. Unlike textbooks, we won’t tell you what to teach or how to teach it. But which one should I use?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Teachers may find the template below a useful resource as they plan their station rotation lessons, especially if they teach online or in a concurrent classroom where the teacher-led stations are likely happening via video conferencing. History: Station Rotation Ideas. I think of history as a story told from different perspectives.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The vote of the electors is recorded on a document called the Certificate of Vote. Both documents are then sealed up and sent to the National Archive. Check out this related blog: A Conversation with John Dinan, Editor of our core document collection, Federalism. Each Senator has a vote.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 6, 2025

Make visible the history that we are defending the right to teach with mini-lessons. Mini-lessons also serve as an affirmation that we defy censorship by teaching this “banned history” in a public space. history who have resisted injustice and to learn from the range of strategies they have used.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Image credit: [link] A Biology Teacher’s Thoughts on Critical Literacy by Lynne Torpie Science teachers can tend to be myopic, focusing on acquiring content detail and teaching the steps of the scientific method instead of fostering the investigative, critical thinking and written communication skills that embody real-world scientific endeavors.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.”

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To celebrate Bill of Rights Day, we offer below a condensed version of the introduction to the Bill of Rights core document volume , available, as are all the document volumes, in the TAH bookstore. References to documents in parentheses are the documents in the Bill of Rights volume.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primary sources to share real accounts. The primary source.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

So, students must have lessons that focus on teaching the election. Thankfully, teaching the election will be a fun, exciting, and motivational process with The Political Socialization Lesson , Campaign Finance Lesson , and Electoral College Lesson ! Teaching the Electoral Process The electoral process is a cornerstone of a democracy.

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Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

Teaching the Constitution is hard, especially to younger students. Every year I teach the Constitution I want to try something new. It’s the hardest primary source I teach and I’m sure many of you feel the same. It’s the hardest primary source I teach and I’m sure many of you feel the same. I feel your pain.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 25, 2025

Im thinking about a theory for using AI in history education. I decided to talk to my AI companion, CHAT GPT about this (a friend indeed) ( Im speaking here to ChatGPTo1 pro mode – edited ) I would like your assistance in developing some ideas (and principles) that may be used in a theory about using AI in history education.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 15, 2025

For todays blog, we are highlighting a document that helps students intersect two of the most historically important elements of the 1960s: the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Read the entire document, our scholarly introduction, and discussion questions here. December 6, 1963. National Archives.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

MARCH 14, 2023

Modern American History Word Wall Have you ever used a Modern American History word wall before? Word walls can be a helpful tool your students can use to remember and better understand the vocabulary words that connect with whatever historical topic you’re teaching. You can see a few examples in the pictures below.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

What happens when teachers ask students to read the primary documents of our founding carefully, constructing their own account of our system? This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 1, 2024

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of “anti-CRT” bills. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Article and Lesson This Day in People’s History Below are a few key events in labor history.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

What happens when teachers ask students to read the primary documents of our founding carefully, constructing their own account of our system? This summer we asked five teachers attending the residential program of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) how they convey to students what self-government requires.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. The post Preparing for a One-Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Important Documents Review – Let’s be real. Key documents can be tough for students to remember. The early American history version can be found here. US History Important Document Review 5. Join The Active History Teacher Community! First name Email address What are you interested in hearing about?

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. Below is a sampling of topics from Documents & Debates, v.2. Documents include Lincoln’s Second Inaugural , Douglass’ “ Reconstruction ,” and Tillman’s Speech in the Senate.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Lohrding enjoyed this time of socializing a chance to talk with teachers from all over the country who teach different groups of kids. In the next sessions we got to relate what we saw to what we read in the documents.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. The incorporation doctrine authorized the Supreme Court for the first time in its history to review state laws that potentially infringed upon the First Amendment. Sample Documents Schenck v.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Perhaps it is because the virtues of Mexican and Indigenous spiritualities in Texas and Minnesota, where I’ve split my whole life, are so universal that it’s hard to not be drawn to their teachings and practices. At first, I was convinced I found a pedagogy ingrained with Indigenous wisdom that could further decolonize my teaching.

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 30, 2025

Its still a work in progress, but its already changing how my students interact with both history and technology. Students question the bot like they would a biased newspaper article, a government document, or a historical speech. Heres the flow : Students engage with content a primary source, textbook excerpt, or short video.

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Teaching American History

JULY 2, 2024

Teaching American History emphasizes the use of primary documents. Why, then, is Teaching American History publishing a series of narrative histories? In case you didn’t know about the narrative histories, let me describe them, before I explain them.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

The reason for this is that we have put a premium on creating a teaching and learning culture that better meets the needs of our learners while enhancing essential skills such as collaboration, communication, creativity, media literacy, and global awareness. History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S. Students in Ms.

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I often use class competition games in my US History classroom – you could say it is part of my classroom culture. Here are a few classroom competition games I use with students – all of which are great for US History EOC Review and STAAR Review! I have done-for-you timeline races for early US History and Modern US History.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Social-Emotional Learning as Part of Whole Child Learning.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

So, I wanted to share the framework that my teaching team (English, history, and science) used when planning large scale interdisciplinary projects. Instead of sharing individual documents, our shared drive provided us with a virtual storage bucket for our resources that we all had access to at any time.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Im teaching her! The food she prepares carries the essence of her familys history and her fathers ingenuity, encapsulated in every unmeasured pinch of spice. After decades documenting others migrations, I turned to my own familys food stories in 2022, when my uncle, Chandran, passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. Washington University in St.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2011

The following are some highlights from February: My Media Specialist (Linda Keesing) and History Teacher (Joe Manzo) collaborated recently to integrate Web 2.0 History 1 class’s study of the Bill of Rights. Milan''s students as they collected their information and stored it in a Google Document. technology into a U.S.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Big Idea: What lasting impact did this have on history? Timeline Construction History is all about connections. Big Idea: How does this event connect to larger themes in history?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Schools brag that they teach it on their websites and in open houses to impress parents. But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time.

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