Economics Historic Sites Information 
ACRE
JUNE 9, 2023
Exhibits describe the development of the Dyess colony & other planned housing developments throughout the state as a part of a New Deal economic recovery project. Grant Funds Available K-12 teachers, did you know there is grant funding available for field trips to historic Arkansas sites?
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 15, 2024
You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site, bookstore, famers’ market, or other public location. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Teachers read pledges and/or students testify at a historic site. Or march to a local civic building.
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Teaching American History
JANUARY 5, 2024
Moreover, any realistic account of history covers economic and financial factors. While studying the Civil War, we put students in the role of travel agents and asked them to design tours of historical sites related to the war. I decided to invent a classroom currency and economic system. It has grown ever since.”
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 2, 2025
Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to host an information table or event to defend the right to #TeachTruth including about Palestine and the rights of LGBTQ+ students. Find an event near you and show up Go to a historic site and take a photo with a Teach Truth sign that you make or download.
Zinn Education Project
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
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. They gather information and then must go into the heads of the enslaved to write from their point of view or on behalf of them.
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