Geography Middle School Primary Sources 
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could learn about maps and the geospatial revolution from a professor at Penn State University. And so on… .
Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. She found interesting geography lessons online. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. This was December.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 8, 2024
He writes, “Nearly everything about the war — the start and end dates, geography, vital military roles, the home front, and international implications — looks different when viewed from the African American perspective.” History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 1, 2017
When the new standards emerged, Camille Lesseig was a first-year teacher, teaching social studies for grades nine to 12 in the Meridian Public School District in Lauderdale County in east Mississippi, where roughly a third of children live in poverty. Her assigned ninth-grade textbook back then? Mississippi: the Magnolia State.”.
TCI
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Instead of letting groups form organically, assign clear roles like: Discussion Leader Recorder Timekeeper Presenter “I assign roles to make sure everyone is responsible, but I also give students a chance to own their role and adapt as they go,” says Kati Hash , a high school world geography and civics teacher.
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