Active History Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

Have you ever assigned a decades project for your US History class? You’ve finished your US History curriculum and need something engaging for students to go as an end of the year project? It’s time to try a US History end of the year decades project! Join The Active History Teacher Community! Are you like me?

History 195

History Oral History Middle School Cultures 195

NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

Oral History 100

Oral History Public History History Museum 100

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. But elementary students sitting in school desks today were not even born when this historically significant event occurred. The primary source.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Social Studies Teaching Oral History 52

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Heritages are of two kinds, the physical object ranging from tiny beads to pyramids and non-objects like knowledge, custom, oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Cultures Anthropology Heritage 130

Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He served on the mission control team during Apollo 11’s successful Moon landing, and played an instrumental role in computing the trajectory and successful recovery back to Earth during the events of Apollo 13. Elliott-High Eagle, Oral History, interviewed by David Zierler Oct. Lori Arviso Alvord,” retrieved Nov.

Oral History 52

Oral History Museum Heritage Archaeology 52

Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

He also completed an APSA Oral History Interview in 1993, where he shares his experiences in the discipline of political science. Bunche Award Committee (1983), and the Centennial Campaign Presidents Council (98-03). He specialized in the US Presidency, the Executive Branch, public administration, and urban politics.

Oral History 47

Oral History Political Science Social Justice Social Science 47

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. It’s hard to hear above the two dozen students in Charles Willis’s class The History of Revere, which looks at how the community, first settled in the 1630s, has changed over time.

Teaching 111

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 111