TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Reading Integration: Use informational texts, primary sources, and document analysis to enhance comprehension and critical thinking. Successful integration requires strategic planning and professional development to ensure teachers feel confident in implementing this approach.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

DOWNLOAD EBOOK Recess Time Climbing Activities like jungle gyms, monkey bars, and rock walls are fun and great for children’s body awareness! Try yoga and stretching with daily mantras right after recess for a quick calm down and refocus. Kids build strength and coordination as they climb and swing across monkey bars.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

You can see that each lesson includes a number of downloadable resources in addition to the lesson itself. The downloadable materials include printable worksheets with answer keys, station activities, projects, and anything else you or the students need for the lesson.

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

You can preview and download any of them through the links below, but here are the major updates and changes: 1. Plus there’s lesson plans for every day, flipped classroom videos, Google Slides, primary sources, worksheets, and more for every unit.

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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 ! The American Presidency is available for free download from our bookstore.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When our site pops up in the search results, and they click on our site, they see that we have thousands of primary source documents, many accompanied by introductions and study questions. You can also choose to download a FREE PDF version of the book. Most teachers discover our database when searching for a specific document.

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Students of History

JUNE 5, 2023

You can read more about review Clue in this blog post or download a pre-made set for US History here. These 9-page packets are perfect for an EOC review because they include maps, vocabulary, people, images, timelines, and primary sources to analyze. Clue : I love using this game based on the popular board game and movie.

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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. Here’s one you can download about the industrial revolution.) In the earlier grades we are often looking at a pattern of behavior or an artifact.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

That kids can download the material on their phones makes it “really accessible,” he added. The idea, he said, is that students will be inspired “to go on a scavenger hunt through the primary source archives to learn more.”. Kinfolk was launched in February by the ed tech nonprofit, Movers & Shakers NYC.

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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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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. DuBois "Returning Soldiers" from World War I Activity Vietnam War Pentagon Papers Primary Source Loving v.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This document is excerpted from our CDC volume Race and Civil Rights , which contains classroom-ready primary sources, introductory essays and discussion questions. Download or purchase your copy today from our bookstore ! Supreme Court ruling that invalidated state-mandated segregation on interstate buses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The guide can be downloaded free at the National Park Service website. The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S.

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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. Joseph Postell What’s wrong with our Congress? Judging by its approval ratings over the past decade, Congress has lost the support of the American people.

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Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

After reviewing the sources, they will need to decide if this event is best defined as a riot, uprising, coup d’état, or insurrection. There are 8 sets of primary sources, each with a few short paragraphs explaining them in context. The lesson is also available as part of my Reconstruction Unit Plan Bundle here.

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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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