Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. To connect students to important historical events that have shaped America and the world, we often must go to the source. The primary source. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primary sources to share real accounts.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

Human-recorded audio has synchronized highlighting so that the students can see reading modeled and bring general and domain-specific vocabulary into their oral vocabulary. DOWNLOAD RESOURCE The post Scaffolding: What is it and Why is it Important? Scaffolding is a research-proven method of leading students along this path.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 2, 2024

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. The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

Check out this list of lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website during the 2023–2024 school year! In the follow-up lesson, students explore primary sources that reveal key outcomes of the Reconstruction era. How do we know?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. The guide can be downloaded free at the National Park Service website. The materials can be downloaded free.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I also wanted to let folks know that we at the Zinn Education Project offer free, downloadable people’s history lessons that many of you have probably used for middle and high school students, and we also have an important report on Reconstruction that we hope you all will check out and think about how to use in your classrooms.

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