ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

So when one student says she plans to study the Bermuda Triangle, the professor recommends that she ask a librarian—maybe the one who talked to the class earlier in the semester—to help her curate a reading list of secondary sources. As for primary sources, the professor suggests looking for a map, or a ship’s record, or a diary entry.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 24, 2020

But it’s really hard to document just how much of an effect it has on student achievement or even on things like collaboration and communication, he added. Fun and games with neuroscience (Discover Magazine) Brain Games turns human behavior into pop television entertainment.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Ohio House members from both sides of the aisle took turns reading the Declaration from its opening, “When in the course of human events,” through its closing pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” along with the names of its signatories. The reading typifies Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777. Salmerón, L.,

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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. A Teacher’s Influence “Because of MAHG, I’ve begun using way more primary sources,” Livingston says. MAHG gave Livingston binders full of sources and helped her understand their context.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Primary documents give us unexpected perspectives on history. Landen Schmeichel sees this often when using documents in his Advanced Placement US History course at Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. Liberty and Equality: Ideas That Shaped America Primary documents prompt reflection on powerful ideas.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In the follow-up lesson, students explore primary sources that reveal key outcomes of the Reconstruction era. Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Unit with three lessons on voting rights, including the history of the struggle against voter suppression in the United States.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Through examining FBI documents, students learn the scope of the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The training not only gave teachers the opportunity to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement, but also taught them how to pull documents from the archives to enhance and enrich their classroom materials. The previous social studies standards mentioned the phrase “civil rights” just three times in the 305-page document.

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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. invasion in 2002.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence). This particular tool allows users to upload their own documents—course readings, research articles, archives, etc.—so

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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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4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When we do a full Question Two inquiry lab in the classroom we usually work from primary source documents, especially in the upper grades. Whatever the source, the 4QM interpretation process has three steps. How does the source itself support these interpretations? What was their goal?

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

I had used AI to simplify the primary sources into 7th-grade-friendly readings, hoping this would keep students engaged and make the sources more accessible. This made the Loyalist primary source lesson from the Digital Inquiry group a perfect choice. They then designed a visual infographic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Related: Can we trace the roots of Charlottesville to school segregation? Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Riots, Racism, and the Police A lesson uses primary source documents to teach the long trajectory of police violence in Black communities. A Peoples Tribunal on the Coronavirus Pandemic An activity in which students weigh who or what is to blame for the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

With documentation and clear explanations, Muhammad challenged prevailing stereotypes about race and crime. And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. But certainly for most of the history of the West these were not considered crimes against humanity.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We have invited each member of our staff to share a document that reflects what has been on their mind as they observe our changing country: documents that present historical context, offer hope and inspiration, or provide evidence to shed light on the present moment. ASHP Executive Director, Annie Valk, volunteered to start off.

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