NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

K-12 312

K-12 Primary Sources American History Archiving 312

NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

Since 1990, NCHE has supported K-12 teachers in the development and implementation of history education, with support from scholars, museums, historic sites, and other history educators. Today, NCHEs work focuses on three areas: professional learning, community building, and advocacy.

Library 130

Library Primary Sources Museum Historic Sites 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Art galleries, museums, or historical sites were popular with almost two-thirds of non-poor families, while less than a third of poor families took their kindergarteners to these locations in the summer before first grade.

Historic Sites 132

Historic Sites Museum Library Elementary School 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a history unit, teachers and students can choose which historical sites to write about in their postcards. To be sure, Duke and her fellow curriculum designers have left some flexibility for teachers to customize lessons to their communities.

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2018

For example, only 32 percent of poor kids and 44 percent of “near” poor kids went to an art gallery, a museum or an historical site over the summer. Only 12 percent of non-poor families did this. The poor were less likely to go on cultural outings. Almost two-thirds, or 63 percent of non-poor kids, did.

Sociology 100

Sociology Museum Historic Sites Cultures 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

LaGarrett King, founder and director of the Center for K–12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University of Buffalo The controversies have had subtle reverberations for the classrooms in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia too. The historical site, about 12 miles away from Norfolk, is a popular field trip destination.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site, bookstore, famers’ market, or other public location. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Teachers read pledges and/or students testify at a historic site. Or march to a local civic building.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52