Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. Primary sources are excellent tools to help students learn how to think like historians. Students should know that their family records are also primary sources!

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Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

It’s the hardest primary source I teach and I’m sure many of you feel the same. Let’s be honest, it’s a document from the 1700s. The question is, “What kinds of Constitution activities will help them apply what they know and help them remember?” Every year I teach the Constitution I want to try something new.

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HistoryRewriter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

First, select a primary source for students to interpret via the Retell in Rhyme EduProtocol. Then, ask Google Bard or Chat GPT to retell the main ideas of the document in 10 rhyming couplets so an 8th grader will understand it. I borrowed this excerpt from my friend, Dr. Mark Jarrett’s work with primary sources.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 17, 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. This week, researcher Carli Snyder shares a primary source.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

We can spend all day telling students how to do something, like write a thesis statement, solve a type of problem, or analyze a primary source. They may jump in and out of digital documents leaving comments, suggestions, and linking students to additional resources to help them develop and improve their work.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Reading Integration: Use informational texts, primary sources, and document analysis to enhance comprehension and critical thinking. Writing Integration: Encourage students to document scientific observations, create historical narratives, and develop evidence-based arguments.

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For example, students can race to complete primary source analysis, vocabulary matching, map activities, and more. Students are given an envelope full of terms (dates, battles, people, court cases, documents, etc.), You can spin pretty much any average classroom activity into a fun content race.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

It’s been a huge time saver, especially since it allowed me to focus more on the classroom and less on the stress of documenting every detail. This part helped students connect primary source analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Still, to paraphrase a famous campaign slogan from the 1990s, for TAH, it’s the documents, stupid!

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Simplifying Primary Sources with AI My goal was to simplify the lesson while still helping students build confidence and learn. The revised documents were a mix of Jamestown and Plymouth hardships and survival stories. They worked in pairs, reading the sources and answering questions.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

With the internet, students can access primary source documents, research just about anything, and support their own understanding with explanations accompanied by video, animations, or other helpful visualizations. Access Resources. Use Professional Tools.

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Thrive in Grade Five

APRIL 20, 2019

Court documents do not explain the charges against him, but in a document dated prior to the accusation, Thomas Gage said that Dr. Toothaker saw two children who were ill and exhibiting “unwanted fits.” Primary source documents report that Bridget continued to proclaim her innocence up to the moment of her execution.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 6, 2024

Background readings, a pre-webinar discussion board, and links to webinar recordings and relevant primary sources will be made available to registrants. Its documents also explore the president’s responsibility to oversee the executive branch and his authority as commander in chief and in regard to foreign policy.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

One, offer examples of websites to use in your classroom, and two, provide a few rules to guide your excerpting of documents. First up, the LOC (aka Library of Congress): The Library of Congress has an amazing treasure trove of primary source materials. Still further, if I use excerpts, how much is too much to cut?

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

Historical Events: When studying historical events, people, or places encourage students to analyze primary sources. They can share what they see in the documents or images, their thoughts about what they see, and questions they have about the time period, person, or place.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In addition, teachers often gather a multitude of resources, such as primary source documents, to supplement a curriculum. This rings especially true now as educators are gaining new skills with remote and distance teaching. A digital portfolio can be very helpful to share when applying to new jobs or roles.

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Rosie the History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

There are thousands of amazing primary sources available from the Smithsonian including photographs, documents, physical objects, audio, and video. I use it for formative assessment on a regular basis by asking students to create their own mini museums – and they love it! It is free!)

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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.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

The one day seminars we hold around the country provide in-depth learning from document-based discussions, but the experience is amplified during the summer residence program. Each question has a corresponding document to analyze in your response. It’s common for teachers to overlook the arguments in the document.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Constitution PD.4.C.3

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources. THE ERROR BEHIND “DOCUMENT ANALYSIS” The fact is, even people who should really know better often make the same mistake. Plan it out.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Online coursework during the school year entailed many afterwork hours reading the assigned primary documents. Yet discussing these documents in the interactive online class sessions energized their teaching practice. You’ll see that both questions contain document excerpts that you are asked to analyze.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Their discussion highlights visual images, primary source documents, and historical topics that have been useful in their classrooms. A high school history teacher describes how an understanding of history can add important context for understanding the rise of conservative resistance to inclusive education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

She purchased notebooks for the kids so they could document the growth of the sunflowers, soil, seeds and water. Revenue and Subsidies Gale’s primary source of revenue is what she collects from the families who use her center, with some additional funding from the state for families who qualify for a subsidy.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. This allows participants to prepare their thoughts and questions and join in the conversation to really get the meaning behind the documents.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 16, 2024

Edited by Jeremy Bailey and intended as a secondary and post-secondary document reader, American Presidency contains 39 introduced and edited primary sources, discussion questions, and a thematic table of contents. Download it today from our bookstore !

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

These activities include: Sourcing documents Drag & drop timelines Analyzing primary and secondary sources Interpreting and inserting images Notetaking Comparing and contrasting topics 4. Refreshed Themes - each digital notebook set now has its own theme to match the unit.

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C3 Teachers

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Students’ pre-assessment work is grouped based upon the descriptors in order to design instructional scaffolding to support student growth as they work through formative performance tasks and the featured primary sources from the IDM template.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

I was very excited to have them reflect on these documents and then create letters to send to policy makers advising them on the situation. Based on the compelling arguments in those past documents, I was sure students would be suggesting that policy makers shut things down. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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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. Schools—whether they are prepared or not—have become a primary source for mental health supports for children.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Your Studies Weekly Online classroom contains digital versions of your publications and more online resources like digital lesson plans, videos, and presentations you can project to the whole class.

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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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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

As a teacher, he appreciated Teaching American History’s free seminars featuring scholar-led discussion of primary documents. In his teaching he used only primary documents, knowing from his city council experience that they “are the materials you deal with when you are trying to solve political and social problems.”

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The thinking skill associated with Question Two is interpretation, and in high school we’re usually interpreting a primary source document. In the earlier grades we are often looking at a pattern of behavior or an artifact. This last step is where the richest discourse happens.

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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. Giving students this trust creates a partnership of learning and growth between students and the teacher.

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