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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

provides connection and coherence through the careful effort of trained human curators, making more than ten thousand articles from five hundred publications easily searchable and interconnected. Those resources present the latest discoveries from primary sources, place-based learning, graphic novels, podcasts, and videos.

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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. Letters, photographs, postcards, journals, and other first-hand accounts add detail, humanity, and relevance to our picture of the past. Their family stories are history!

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Classroom Based Assessments – Where to start

Doing Social Studies

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. One, offer examples of websites to use in your classroom, and two, provide a few rules to guide your excerpting of documents. Still further, if I use excerpts, how much is too much to cut?

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

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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Fresh Food, Dance Class, and Nap Mats: What's Lost Without Federal Money for Child Care

ED Surge

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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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

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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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.