Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. First up, the LOC (aka Library of Congress): The Library of Congress has an amazing treasure trove of primary source materials. It isn’t a pretty website, but it is useful.

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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. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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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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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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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

To ensure that instructional materials are easily accessible to educators, AAAJ Chicago convened a working group of Asian American educators and community leaders that compiled a database of Asian American history resources that showcases a range of materials from picture books to documentaries and primary sources.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. The more information you have, the better. There are several ways to search for the letter.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

government abroad, while people living in the U.S. When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. It didn’t take long to find what I was looking for: music was used as propaganda by the U.S.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

government abroad, while people living in the U.S. When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. It didn’t take long to find what I was looking for: music was used as propaganda by the U.S.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 14, 2025

We used Annotate & Tell to break down Texas independence and the Mexican-American War, Map & Tell to visualize territorial disputes, and Thick Slides to connect primary and secondary sources on the Mormon migration. government in Texas annexation. governments actions through different archetypes. government.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

government, and only 29 percent said they had a teacher whose primary responsibility is teaching civics. As a country, we have not invested enough in teaching the very fundamental knowledge, skills and dispositions young people need to be informed and engaged participants in our bold experiment in self-government.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources. They also said our government was two-faced: Talking about soldiers working together against the common enemy but having segregated quarters for the Black and white soldiers. from the Pittsburg Courier and the Double V campaign.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. They’ve never known life without it, and it’s where they get all their information. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

After going over key terms and background information (as suggested by Wolfe-Rocca in the PDF version of the activity), I arranged my students in groups of four and they investigated six of the included documents. They gather information and then must go into the heads of the enslaved to write from their point of view or on behalf of them.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

We started by wrapping up our government voice inquiry with a Thick Slide summary and fast Gimkit reviews, then dived into Sketch and Tell-o on Loyalist perspectives and Enlightenment ideas with Parafly paraphrasing exercises. This made the Loyalist primary source lesson from the Digital Inquiry group a perfect choice.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Like the majority of parents in her income bracket, Haskins gets no government help covering that cost. In fact, the federal government provided child care subsidies to just one in six children eligible to receive them in 2015, according to the U.S. More than half ( 53 percent ) are eligible for some form of government benefit.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Department of Education, which oversees the primary source of federal funding for homeless students, known as McKinney-Vento after the 1987 law that provides for the funding. Over the next three years, though, the $800 million from the federal government could radically transform how Carr and other liaisons do their job.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Several organizations are providing information to help educators teach about Reconstruction.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Once considered to be the great American contribution to constitutional government—being governed by our own consent through elected, representative lawmakers—Congress is now the most disliked part of our political system. If we do not understand how consent of the governed works, and how it should work, we risk losing it.

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Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

By the end, students had color-coded party perspectives on government power, the economy, foreign relations, and constitutional interpretation. Federalists States should have more power than the national government. Thick Slides encourage students to synthesize information creatively. avoid war, maintain Federalist power, etc.)

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. It also reminded me about the information in the documentary 13th.

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