4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and social studies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both. Here’s one you can download about the industrial revolution.) What were they thinking?

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Artifacts Primary Sources Social Studies Professional Development 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

That kids can download the material on their phones makes it “really accessible,” he added. lessons on the history of Black people often focus on “trauma and tribulation,” said Erica Buddington, founder and CEO of Langston League, a firm that specializes in creating culturally responsive instructional materials.

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Archiving Primary Sources Archival Research Artifacts 138

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding. Check out this list of lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website this year! In the follow-up lesson, students explore primary sources that reveal key outcomes of the Reconstruction era.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding. Check out this list of lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website during the 2023–2024 school year! How do we know? Read the list and donate so that we can provide more teachers with these lessons.

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Primary Sources Government History Humanities 53

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history when black lives mattered.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter.

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Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

6th insurrection at the Capitol (I have a lesson for this here ), I came across an article about the only "successful" coup or insurrection in US History. This is something that needs to be a part of a US History curriculum. There are 8 sets of primary sources, each with a few short paragraphs explaining them in context.

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Lesson Plan History Primary Sources Government 52

Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Today’s blog is an edited excerpt from the introduction to TAH’s CDC volume, Congress , edited by Joseph Postell , available in our bookstore for free download or purchase. In examining these periods of Congress’s history, we are challenged to consider the merits and demerits of each model of Congress.

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Primary Sources Government Library American History 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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