Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Primary Source Analysis Tools Engage students with firsthand accounts of the past with easy-to-use worksheets that help students analyze various types of sources and bring their stories to life. In their new home, they could buy land, practice their faith, and have equal standing in their communities.

American History 90

American History History Teaching Primary Sources 90

NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

Primary Sources 100

Primary Sources Archiving Library Museum 100

Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities.

Heritage 52

Heritage Primary Sources Library Lesson Plan 52

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.”

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98