Students of History

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Each one features an introductory reading, standards-based Essential Questions to guide the unit, and then 9 pages dedicated to vocabulary, geography, people, timelines, key concepts, and image analysis. These pages might have students complete a Venn Diagram, compare one or more sources to another, or complete a cause and effect chart.

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Civics History Primary Sources Geography 52

Leah Cleary

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Assess imperialism in Africa and Asia, include: the influence of geography and natural resources. How can primary sources help us to understand the rise of the nation-state in Germany under Otto von Bismarck? How can primary sources help us to understand the rise of the nation-state in Japan during the Meiji Restoration?

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Library Geography World History 52

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.

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. According to this theory, the brain naturally takes a casual approach to digital texts and devotes less mental work to reading and understanding them thoroughly.

Artifacts 52

Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Their software includes story maps for over a dozen titles in World History, including the Age of Exploration, the First Crusade, Ancient Greece, and its geography, the Black Death, the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Egyptian Funerary Practices, and many more. In addition to the Black Death, I looked at ancient Greece.

Primary Sources 130

Primary Sources Geography World History History 130

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.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question. In the Canton Public School District, Howard Hollins teaches sixth-grade world geography and citizenship. Her assigned ninth-grade textbook back then?

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K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 96

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

While elementary students may be too young to understand the emotional, historical and moral debates surrounding Israel and Palestine, he said, they can build a basic understanding of the region’s geography, the history of how and why Israel was created, and why Palestinians feel like they have been “trapped in ghettos.”

Primary Sources 120

Primary Sources Heritage Charter School Geography 120

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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Primary Sources Geography Civics Middle School 52