ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class.

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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. 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.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Here are two remarkable features powered by AI: Document Analysis: By uploading a PDF or presentation, Quizlet’s AI can extract text to create an outline, notes, flashcards, and questions. AI’s role in Quizizz: Content Integration: Like Edpuzzle, you can upload documents and insert YouTube links.

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Tutoring World History History Economics 98

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 The department said the documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.”.

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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. Engaging Activities - All of the same great activities from the old digital notebooks are back with some awesome updates to them as well.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. We engage with our students as equals with us in devotion to the truth and to understanding the documents we study as their authors understood them.

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Leah Cleary

JUNE 30, 2024

Mastering Close Reading The World History Project 1750 to the Present has a free template called “Three Close Reads.” Use a document camera to share what you’re writing on a screen with your students. In looking at the text that way, the student is analyzing and interpreting. So how can we get them there?

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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. 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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”.

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