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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Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 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. 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 Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

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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Psychology Primary Sources Research Humanities 52

ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

The job fairs are already at capacity — the company has an attractive offer of benefits, a 401(k), and paid time off — and expects more than 750 new jobs to come to the area , including in manufacturing, operations, human resources and administrative roles. But we don’t have the child care infrastructure to support this,” Gale says. “If

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K-12 Government Primary Sources Advocacy 92

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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Library Psychology Primary Sources Humanities 106

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

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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Primary Sources Government History Humanities 83

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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K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 91

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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Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 92

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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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. invasion in 2002.

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History Teaching Social Studies Middle School 52

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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Civics Primary Sources Artifacts Charter School 40

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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Teaching Primary Sources History K-12 102

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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Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98