Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

So whether you’re wanting to dive deeper into learning about indigenous Identity with Dr. Brandon Haddock, explore geography through the lens of a zombie apocalypse, dive into economic policy, or attend a wide variety of other breakout sessions with teaching strategies to help you “take it up a notch,” we’ve got something for you.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

will ultimately shift the country’s power base: Nearly one in three Americans say they are extremely or very concerned that native-born Americans are losing “economic, political and cultural influence” in this country because of the growing population of immigrants. Use primary sources.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

First up, the LOC (aka Library of Congress): The Library of Congress has an amazing treasure trove of primary source materials. Upon entering the collection, you are presented with five tabs near the top of the page covering Growth, Peoples, Economics, Ideas, and American.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

said Eliana La Ferrara, a professor of economics at Bocconi University and a researcher in the study with whom I corresponded by email. In our experience more recently, it seems unlikely that volunteers alone would be a primary source of tutors,” Kraft said. Statistically, it was a null result. Paying tutors might help too. “In

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. My class would be in YouTube heaven.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. Yet Issaquena County has continued to pay taxes to support three public schools – more than $937,000 last year alone – that provide scant economic benefit to the county itself. Credit: Eric J.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Revenue and Subsidies Gale’s primary source of revenue is what she collects from the families who use her center, with some additional funding from the state for families who qualify for a subsidy. Particularly for states like West Virginia, a state with one of the highest poverty ratings and lowest economic opportunity rating.

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ASHP CML

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Carli and Trystin compiled primary sources and collaboratively wrote teaching activities, essential questions, and a background essay. In spring 2024, Trystin Curbelo joined ASHP as an intern to work with researcher Carli Snyder on a new collection for our popular database, Social History for Every Classroom (SHEC).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And research shows achievement gaps in math and English along racial and socio-economic lines have often already hardened by the time kids reach kindergarten. Home-based operators help teach about 1.5 She described early childhood education as a “graveyard” of promising, grant-funded ideas.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. Economics of Education Review , 68 , 89–103. Personality and Individual Differences , 115 , 154–158.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 14, 2025

Wicked Hydra: Generating Inquiry from Primary Sources We started with a Wicked Hydra , where students analyzed Executive Order 44 , also known as the “Extermination Order” issued by Missouris governor in 1838. This activity helped reinforce sourcing skills and historical interpretation.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Additionally, a 2015 study found that focusing on student social and emotional well-being resulted in long-term economic gains due to improvements in health, education, and employment. We know teachers work incredibly hard to create a welcoming, calm, safe space.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We talked about the economic impact of slavery to go from being money to trying to catch up with everyone else, who was given that opportunity of reaching this ‘American dream,’ and having 300-400 years of being someone else’s money.” “I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Angela Jenks guided medical anthropology students through an analysis of direct-to-consumer artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) medical apps like Symptomate and DermAssist, teaching them to analyze this emerging technology while situating these apps in their historical, social, and economic contexts.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org. Each describes some component of democracy, such as free and open elections, freedom of the press, transparency in government, economic freedom, an independent judiciary, and so on.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Karen Brink-Noonan Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Valatie, New York I have used the Thingamabob Game in both my economics class and my U.S. history with my 11th-grade students, we began the year by corroborating Columbus’s story and used texts from A Young People’s History , traditional textbooks, videos, and other primary sources.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

According to Prosperity Now, a national nonprofit to expand economic opportunity for low-income families, and the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, white households have seven times the amount of wealth as African Americans, and six times as much as Latinos. Yet many education reformers avoid, accept — or even embrace!

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Riots, Racism, and the Police A lesson uses primary source documents to teach the long trajectory of police violence in Black communities. A Peoples Tribunal on the Coronavirus Pandemic An activity in which students weigh who or what is to blame for the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 3, 2025

This week, administrator and multimedia producer David Scheckel shares a primary source. Stay tuned for more documents in the coming weeks both on our website and on our primary source database, Social History for Every Classroom. The second main trend I saw here has gotten a bit more complicated.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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