World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Students will also see that historians do not always agree on causes and outcomes of historical events. They could read the ten arguments and make their own assessment of who or what started the war.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

Many teachers avoid bringing current events into the classroom and often for good reason. It's a politically fraught world these days and you don't want to be considered biased or bring up trouble. However, current events are a great way to connect your curriculum to the real world and work on social studies skills.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. ” This simply means that the story has hidden meanings.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Here is an excellent review of the events that led to the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Ohio State University (OSU). You can also read an essay about the events written by Professor Craig Nelson.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? 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.

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World History Teachers Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

I plan to introduce my Current Events students to China's social credit system with a lesson that I found from another teacher, some outside readings, and a couple of video clips. China has instituted a series of initiatives and databases to monitor the trustworthiness of its citizens and companies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

He first signed up for a college-credit world history class with Mitchell, who is also employed by a nearby community college to teach the course. Mitchell drove down for the day, as he tries to do for special events, even serving once as the keynote speaker at graduation. school district. And that’s just what he did.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For Zeng, it was clear that the problems with the way world history was taught at her school bled through into the teaching of U.S. To change the way this history is taught, instruction must place Eurocentric perspectives of world history under a critical lens, Zeng said. A more inclusive U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

During the interview for her learner profile, she reported that her family emigrated from a refugee camp after fleeing the Democratic Republic of Congo, and that her formal education in her home country was interrupted by events beyond her control. What mattered most to Esther was that she felt understood.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Rajbhandari said he’s witnessed a big shift in the level of advocacy for schools and climate since he attended his first Sunrise event in 2019, a protest at the Idaho state capitol.

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Students of History

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

They took a long while to create, but I now have packets for every unit in Civics/Government , World History , and US History. 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.

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Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

By Lisa Sutterer Geography, World History and Early High School Teacher Littleton High School “Why is starting class so difficult each day?” Many middle school teachers are aware of the strength of this “straight down the middle” current events news source, and show it religiously. I recently reflected after a tough week.

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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. I have a thorough World History PBL packet that can be used in any unit. It allows students to select a presentation model based on their own skills or interests.

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Leah Cleary

JUNE 30, 2024

Mastering Close Reading The World History Project 1750 to the Present has a free template called “Three Close Reads.” Are there important historical events that may be influencing it? In looking at the text that way, the student is analyzing and interpreting. That’s what we want them to do in our classes and beyond.

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Rosie the History Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2019

You might have seen all of the memes about the full moon, Friday the 13th, and the week before winter break all happening in one big whirlwind – and I hope you are making it through this eventful season of teaching! My 9th grade US History class is finishing up the World War I unit and they have learned so much!

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. Each curriculum includes hundreds of activities you can immediately implement into your classes!

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

I also love my 3D relief United States map , which is really helpful in explaining events and helping my students study for their semester-long US geography test series. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. Same with this larger United States map that’s 48x78in or this smaller sized 24x36in one.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. History class. Victoria was in my U.S.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation. Our team aims to illuminate the island’s central and brutal place in world history. Then, São Tomé functioned as an import-export stop for European trade of African gold and enslaved people.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Some of these important events include the passage of the 13th Amendment, the development of the Freedman's Bureau, the Southern Black Codes, sharecropping, and the Civil Rights Act. The events undid many individuals and families. Here is a fascinating overview from the viewpoints of the many freed slaves who experienced it.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History I strive to make sure my students understand that so many of the events in “history” were not that long ago, and so much of what has happened in our nation continues to shape what happens today. As a culminating event, I use the Black Panther mixer lesson from the Zinn Education Project.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It also means schools doing more to emphasize the importance of values like curiosity and empathy, and offering lessons that provide “mirrors and windows” for all students to see and understand the many contributions to world history and cultures of those like themselves, and those different from themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Liberals value civic knowledge, too, but tend to spend more time connecting history to current events. High schoolers in a social studies class work on a lesson about the history of nationalism. At this point, I’m going to be very hesitant,” said Catherine Mein, an Iowa world history teacher. “At

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