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History Meme Project for Students

Thrive in Grade Five

The librarians have created huge sets of primary source images by topic or time period. Library of Congress Primary Source Sets I encourage students to browse the primary source sets or to search for an image. ” Once students have downloaded an image, they need to add text.

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Refreshed Digital Notebook Activities for Social Studies

Students of History

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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US History Worksheets: Printable and Digital Activities for Kids

Students of History

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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Want Discourse? Ask Students Four Questions!

4QM Teaching

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.) Why then and there?

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Building virtual monuments to Black historical figures

The Hechinger Report

Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. That kids can download the material on their phones makes it “really accessible,” he added. And while social studies curricula differ vastly across the U.S., Subscribe today! He learned about them through an app on his phone.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. history and social studies curriculums. The materials can be downloaded free.

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

High School social studies teacher. 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. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

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