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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. The primary source. For example, most people over 30 can remember where they were on Sept.

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How to Choose High-Quality Social Studies Instructional Materials for Your District

TCI

Teacher Support Materials: Lesson plans, pacing guides, and professional development resources are often included. Primary Source Integration: Many programs emphasize the use of primary sources in instruction. All teachers receive HQIM professional development.

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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

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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Implementing the Inquiry Design Model for Social Studies in a New Jersey Public School: A Journey of Growth and Discovery

C3 Teachers

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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Teaching the Bill of Rights for Educators

Civics for All of US

Teaching the Bill of Rights for Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body A virtual professional development workshop for K–12 educators. 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.

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A Look Back at 2023 with TCI

TCI

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. Comprehensive Professional Development This year, TCI released a new flexible professional development experience.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

It gives students the knowledge and skills to draw connections to present-day events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the police killings of George Floyd, Michael Brown and other Black Americans, he said. I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class.

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