Social Studies Success

JULY 20, 2023

Primary Source Practice This spring, I had an epiphany ! I was sitting down with a friend, planning out a new workshop on how to analyze primary sources – students were really struggling analyzing primary sources! Finding the main idea is a skill often associated with reading primary source excerpts.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

To set the stage, I assigned an EdPuzzle that introduced the basics of the event. This activity helped them organize their initial understanding while highlighting the significant people and ideas of the event. This activity combined visual and written processing, encouraging them to connect details to the broader purpose of the event.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. They help students understand what real people of the past saw, felt, and heard as they lived through the events we study in school. Their family stories are history!

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

First, their memes must be respectful, both to the person or event being portrayed and to the people who will later view the meme. The librarians have created huge sets of primary source images by topic or time period. With that being said, I do have a couple of rules.

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HistoryRewriter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

First, select a primary source for students to interpret via the Retell in Rhyme EduProtocol. I borrowed this excerpt from my friend, Dr. Mark Jarrett’s work with primary sources. Next, I usually ask my students to work in pairs or small groups to interpret the primary source by retelling it in 10 rhyming couplets.

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Thrive in Grade Five

AUGUST 19, 2023

Whiteboard Example Student Example Idea #2: Make Primary Source Connections! After using a primary source text or image with your students, ask them to make a couple of connections. Allow students to pair up and discuss the primary source used in class. The more, the better! Idea #5: Make a Top 5 List!

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

By starting with a dramatic event that serves as a hook to draw students into the broader historical narrative, teachers can then make the details more engaging for students. In my experience, allowing students to investigate historical events can increase their engagement because it appeals to their inherent curiosity.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This week, researcher Carli Snyder 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 record features Giovanni reciting some of her poems, laid over soul, gospel, and blues music.

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Students race to put unrelated events in order in several mini-timelines. For example, students can race to complete primary source analysis, vocabulary matching, map activities, and more. This classroom competition has some extra challenges, but it can be a fun way to rally your students together.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Each protocol helped keep the energy high while pushing students to think critically about the events leading up to the American Revolution. Of Parents and Children”: Bringing the Revolution Home In this lesson, the premise is simple but effective—compare historical events to everyday situations that students can relate to.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2019

NewseumED is committed to helping students “learn how to authenticate, analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources” and supporting teachers in putting “current events in historical context through standards-aligned lesson plans, videos, primary sources, virtual classes, and programs.”

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This part helped students connect primary source analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills. The video helped set the stage for understanding the complexities of Columbus’s actions and provided a foundation for the primary source activity.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

These pilot experiences were invaluable we observed firsthand how students engaged in compelling questions, analyzed primary sources, and developed their own interpretations of historical events. Others worried about the complexities of multilingual learners engaging with rigorous primary sources.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

Whether exploring scientific phenomena, literary works, historical events, or visual art, observation is the foundation of deeper exploration and understanding. Historical Events: When studying historical events, people, or places encourage students to analyze primary sources.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The routine can be applied to various situations, from analyzing a piece of art to discussing a historical event. History and Social Studies See: Students analyze details of a primary source, like a historical letter or photograph, including date, author, and content.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

I want the students to do something historical, obviously—depict an event or person, perhaps—but I understand that not everyone is equally creative in the arts. Another student’s final project took the form of a video with photos and narration , comparing the class’ learning about the Holocaust with recent events in Ukraine.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In it, the California educator assumes the persona of a Gen Z teacher from the future, delivering overviews of historical figures and events using a hilarious mix of opaque (if you’re a Millennial or older) slang and Taylor Swift lyrics. “A

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. Then we could either host our own TEDxYouth event or perhaps create our own podcasting and/or video channel.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

She pivoted, organizing a series of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the walkouts. During their research, Nia and her classmates immersed themselves in such details, interviewing participants and scouring primary sources. But she ran into vocal opposition. But it really was.” Aden Gonzales, 17.

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Civics for All of US

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Bill of Rights for Elementary Educators Katie Munn Wed, 01/25/2023 - 13:32 Body Explore how to engage elementary students with primary sources from the holdings of the National Archives that demonstrate the power of student voices. You will receive the connection information via email the week of the event.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

This online workshop will explore how to engage young learners in the active exploration of primary sources that teach about the rights embodied in the Bill of Rights. You will receive the connection information via email the week of the event. Registration is free, and the program will be held via Zoom.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

We the People: Teaching the Constitution Workshop for Elementary Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 07:46 Body Looking closely at the Preamble of the Constitution, teachers will work with primary sources from the National Archives and consider how the interpretation of “We the People” has changed over time.

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Students of History

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Here's a closer look at what's included on every page: Unit Introduction This page features a short reading on the unit that introduces students to the key events, people, and things to know. It usually includes 12 major events from that era that students have to place in the correct location along the timeline.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

The Bill of Rights Workshop for Secondary Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body Participants in this online workshop will study the history of the Bill of Rights by analyzing primary sources. You will receive the connection information via email the week of the event.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

We must rely on primary sources to learn about this historical period. How might photographs have changed our understanding of the people, places, and events of the American Revolution? The first camera was invented many years after the conclusion of the American Revolution.

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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. Constitution PD.4.C.3 Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

This online workshop will explore how to engage learners of all grade levels in the active exploration of primary sources that teach about the rights embodied in the Bill of Rights. You will receive the connection information via email the week of the event. Registration is free, and the program will be held via Zoom.

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Anthroholic

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Secondary sources refer to materials that interpret, evaluate, or analyze data or information from primary sources. They offer a second-hand perspective on a subject or event and are often derived from primary source data.

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C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

What kinds of tasks are the sources asking the reader/viewer to participate in? If you are having students read a secondary source detailing the events that led Europe into global war in 1914, have them create a timeline of these events in a detailed way so that they understand the sequence of events.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Work is ongoing on “Past/Present,” our AHA-funded project to create teaching resources and primary source collections that help educators link history to current events. These brainstorming sessions provided ASHP/CML with a rich array of topics and approaches to develop the new collections.

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TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Free Lessons: TCI’s free lessons quickly engage students with videos, vibrant images, primary sources, and more. This year, we added 36 more free lessons and teaching resources connected with seasonal events. Vocabulary Games: Review key terms and practice language arts skills with new vocabulary games.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. I then annotate in the margin things about which I may have a question or jot down something that is connected to another reading or to another historical event or concept.”

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

In a social studies context, this might involve students working in groups to research and present a report on a particular historical event or issue. One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 16, 2024

Edited by Jeremy Bailey and intended as a secondary and post-secondary document reader, American Presidency contains 39 introduced and edited primary sources, discussion questions, and a thematic table of contents. Download it today from our bookstore !

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C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

What kinds of tasks are the sources asking the reader/viewer to participate in? If you are having students read a secondary source detailing the events that led Europe into global war in 1914, have them create a timeline of these events in a detailed way so that they understand the sequence of events.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

While some of these lessons are pretty easy to modify from semester to semester (there will always be debates over immigration, the connections may just be different), sometimes a major event requires the creation of a new lesson. My class spans the eras from Reconstruction through the Great Depression.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

They must agree on date ranges and descriptive titles for each box, and then draw their own individual pictures to describe the events that go in each box. Students debate about what events are important enough to include and what can be left off the storyboard. They debate about the date ranges and turning points in the story.

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