Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation. Our team aims to illuminate the island’s central and brutal place in world history. Then, São Tomé functioned as an import-export stop for European trade of African gold and enslaved people.

Archaeology 75

Archaeology Heritage History Government 75

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Gather 2 documents which demonstrate the systematic nature of the Nazi strategy that marginalized this group of people. Gather 4 archival photographs to provide documented proof of the specific abuse towards the victim group.

Museum 310

Museum Archiving Social Studies History 310

Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

I have a thorough World History PBL packet that can be used in any unit. One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups. It allows students to select a presentation model based on their own skills or interests.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Historic Sites Teaching Primary Sources 52

Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. World Flags – You may also love displaying flags from around the world if you teach World History or Current World Issues.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Civics Sociology History 52

Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You can find over 50 primary source worksheets and resources here to use throughout the school year so that every unit in your US history curriculum includes these activities to improve reading comprehension and analytical skills. Each curriculum includes hundreds of activities you can immediately implement into your classes!

History 52

History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 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. Teaching America’s story with thoroughness, but without bias, is simpler with primary documents. “I found other people who were good at what they did, and learned from them.”

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. The department said the documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.”.

High School 111

High School Education Government Elementary School 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time. Another big challenge is determining how to measure social and emotional development in the first place. The results they cite are promising.

Charter School 107

Charter School K-12 Middle School High School 107

Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

As “expert witness,” the poem’s speaker translates for legal documents: “I type tortures—.” Engage these poets as they speak of their worlds, histories, and communities. Duncan’s poem simultaneously disrupts many of our assumptions as readers and re-plants us in new understandings.

Anthropology 79

Anthropology History Humanities World History 79

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. Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. She asks freshmen taking World History and juniors taking US History to complete a large independent research project.

Social Studies 98

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.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies Middle School 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Meanwhile, according to documents published by WHYY shortly after the election, school administrators were imposing new restrictions. According to the civil rights complaint, some Black students had grown so accustomed to hearing the N-word that they said they stopped responding unless the language was directed at them personally.

Education Policy 142

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Conservatives tend to believe there are core dates and documents that students must be acquainted with to participate fully in American democracy. Liberals value civic knowledge, too, but tend to spend more time connecting history to current events. Senate and denounced by conservatives. It’s what historians want them to do.”.

Social Studies 116

Social Studies Civics History American History 116