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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d add photos to our maps and investigate other mapping tools as well, including possibly making floor plans of locally-significant buildings. We might even take a cue from Michael Hathorn’s high school history students in Hartford, Vermont and use tools like Google SketchUp to make a historical model of our city or town.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Students can be invited to share the local history of the respective site you select. Sojourn to the Past students shared the Jim Crow history of swimming pools in Youngstown. In Youngstown, students in a youth group shared the history of the local pool. Students as Historians. Photo by Dean Hesse.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

For example, San Diego high school teacher Don Dumas held an event last year with his students over Memorial Day weekend. Students can be invited to share the local history of the respective site you select. Sojourn to the Past students shared the Jim Crow history of swimming pools in Youngstown.