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Teaching Irish American History

Studies Weekly

Teaching Irish American History Mar. This overview of Irish American history can help you teach students why they see so many Irish influences today. But what brought so many Irish immigrants to the United States?

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries.

History 105
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10 Travel Themed Classroom Decor Ideas

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

Whatever version you decide to use, each one comes with a title page and four rule cards covering the following: Be Prepared Be Punctual Be Present Be Polite Around the World Skyline Posters If you are a world history or social studies teacher, these world skyline posters can help transform your walls or bulletin boards!

Heritage 130
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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out.

History 112
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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

And they have much to teach us. Davis (a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation) hums a song for the remains of an infant who is in the osteological teaching collection of the anthropology department at her university—a situation archaeologist Kisha Supernaut (Métis/Papaschase/British) has called the “incarceration” of ancestors.