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.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This could mean considering how a community or group (which could be as small as the classroom or as large as humanity) would perceive the subject or how it might affect or be affected by it. Think: Students speculate on the source’s historical context and what it reveals about that period.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

I've thought about opening it up widely—write a historical novelette (using primary sources, of course), create a sculpture, write a song—but, again, I have no idea how to grade something like that, considering the wide range of talent that my students likely will have. Give them ample opportunity to wonder about what they’re learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. Intersection of Less Funding and Less Employment As it currently stands, tribal child counts help divvy up dollars from the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the primary source of child care funding in the U.S.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

The job fairs are already at capacity — the company has an attractive offer of benefits, a 401(k), and paid time off — and expects more than 750 new jobs to come to the area , including in manufacturing, operations, human resources and administrative roles. But we don’t have the child care infrastructure to support this,” Gale says. “If

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

So when one student says she plans to study the Bermuda Triangle, the professor recommends that she ask a librarian—maybe the one who talked to the class earlier in the semester—to help her curate a reading list of secondary sources. As for primary sources, the professor suggests looking for a map, or a ship’s record, or a diary entry.

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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 4, 2024

With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains materials from antiquity to the present across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries, and the surrounding region. There is a broad representation of languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 24, 2020

Fun and games with neuroscience (Discover Magazine) Brain Games turns human behavior into pop television entertainment. Schools—whether they are prepared or not—have become a primary source for mental health supports for children. Keegan-Michael Key brings a welcome jolt of comedic energy to the show.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

It’s the primary source of federal funding for childcare subsidies in states around the country, and it is designed to encourage qualifying parents to work or go to school by enabling them to send their children to quality childcare centers. But, according to the U.S.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Humans remember what we think about, so actually engaging intellectually with history will help students to remember more of it. Teachers of history and social studies on all grade levels know they want students to do more than just memorize facts; they want students to practice thinking about history as well.

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Achieve the Core

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They were our primary source of relevant information, after all. So instead of marking a task wrong and moving on as we often see, badging articulates a more humanizing approach to working with students where feedback and revision processes allow students to refine and improve their work over time.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. A Teacher’s Influence “Because of MAHG, I’ve begun using way more primary sources,” Livingston says. “I found other people who were good at what they did, and learned from them.”

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Ohio House members from both sides of the aisle took turns reading the Declaration from its opening, “When in the course of human events,” through its closing pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” along with the names of its signatories. The reading typifies Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In the follow-up lesson, students explore primary sources that reveal key outcomes of the Reconstruction era. The Thingamabob Game: A Simulation on Capitalism vs. the Climate By Bill Bigelow The Thingamabob Game helps students grasp the essential relationship between climate and capitalism.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Those ideas birthed what I would say is the greatest nation in human history. He began looking for primary sources to flesh out the story of history, which led him to TAH.org and to its Master’s program centered around reading and discussing documents. That’s what teaching through primary sources makes possible.”

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

In the follow-up lesson, students explore primary sources that reveal key outcomes of the Reconstruction era. The post Popular Lessons in 2023–2024 appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Lesseig, who is now a research associate at the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at the University of Mississippi, noted, for instance, that the text presented Vardaman, the turn-of-the-century governor who supported lynching, as a “normal human being.”. It changed me as an individual,” she said. “I

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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. #TeachTruth #BHM2022 pic.twitter.com/LFDfO1qcQM — Valencia Abbott (@vannabbott) November 8, 2022 In my U.S. Students read the James Thompson editorial “ Should I Sacrifice to Live Half American?

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence). Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai Next, students examined the apps themselves.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org. While I haven’t had time to process and filter into my teaching everything I was exposed to, some primary documents I learned about through MAHG have become essential texts.”

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4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When we do a full Question Two inquiry lab in the classroom we usually work from primary source documents, especially in the upper grades. Whatever the source, the 4QM interpretation process has three steps. How does the source itself support these interpretations? What was their goal?

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It is a powerful lesson that gets to the humanity of the enslaved and helps students really engage with the subject. Within the unit, students learn about the causes of climate change, earth’s climate history, how climate change is impacting humans, animals, and ecosystems, and the many possible solutions. invasion in 2002.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

I had used AI to simplify the primary sources into 7th-grade-friendly readings, hoping this would keep students engaged and make the sources more accessible. This made the Loyalist primary source lesson from the Digital Inquiry group a perfect choice. They then designed a visual infographic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services. Haskins used to benefit from a child care subsidy program, commonly referred to by parents and providers here as DHS, shorthand for Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. All told, 1.3

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Fred Drogula We are proud to recognize Fred Drogula for his contributions to Classics and the broader humanities at Ohio University, where he serves both as faculty in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies and as director of the Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Related: Can we trace the roots of Charlottesville to school segregation? Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Immediately following the Saturday, Oct. We will have had this meaningful scholarly discussion that’s based in history and primary sources,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

These primary sources of inequality continue to limit opportunities, suppressing the social mobility of subsequent generations. Leave this field empty if you're human: In addition, more schooling isn’t going to close the racial wealth gap. Yet many education reformers avoid, accept — or even embrace! But it never works.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Riots, Racism, and the Police A lesson uses primary source documents to teach the long trajectory of police violence in Black communities. A Peoples Tribunal on the Coronavirus Pandemic An activity in which students weigh who or what is to blame for the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. But certainly for most of the history of the West these were not considered crimes against humanity.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Stay tuned for more documents in the coming weeks both on our website and on our primary source database, Social History for Every Classroom. ASHP Executive Director, Annie Valk, volunteered to start off. Click here to read the full text of the Resolution.]

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I am co-facilitating today’s class with high school teacher, Prentiss Charney Fellow , and great all around human being, T. And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. I love the ideas of picture books and primary sources for young children, too.

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