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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 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. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primary sources to share real accounts.

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

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. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

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.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

We can plan events like we always had before. The school has lost a bunch of teachers, but three of my son’s core subject teachers — English, social studies and science — have all left since Christmas. Ben Lawson , band and choir director at Redmond High School. Things are back to normal. We’re trying to make up for lost time.

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Teaching about the climate crisis: Jubilant protests, restorative justice and role play

The Hechinger Report

The other thing I try to do is a lot of role plays for social studies and history. Emi struggles with a more straightforward history essay assignment on the climate crisis and the transition to renewables and turns it into something of an oral history, interviewing her parents. Thats not super helpful.

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