Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The students had 5 minutes per slide to process the information and build their slides, using the provided keywords as a guide. Simplifying Primary Sources with AI My goal was to simplify the lesson while still helping students build confidence and learn. They worked in pairs, reading the sources and answering questions.

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Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

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. Washington University in St. Louis has an amazing collection of interviews from the Great Depression.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Rosie the History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

There are thousands of amazing primary sources available from the Smithsonian including photographs, documents, physical objects, audio, and video. Smithsonian Learning Lab was built for use by teachers and students and is so simple and effective to implement if your students have computers with internet access.

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History Primary Sources Museum Artifacts 52

Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

Breathing exercises to try As a Studies Weekly Teacher Advocate , I love to pass along information that can benefit you too. Students can then use these exercises any time they need to refocus and feel peaceful. I have loved researching and trying fun techniques to recenter and regulate emotions. They are not available for homeschools.

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Heritage Primary Sources Lesson Plan Elementary School 52

Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

They include a focus on all ELA skills, not just relaying information. Studies Weekly’s informational text can help students improve their reading scores on grade and state assessments. Grade-level Lexiled Content: If needed, teachers can assign Studies Weekly publications to students based on their reading level.

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Heritage Social Studies Primary Sources Lesson Plan 52

Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Community Areas Welcome Area Create a welcoming area near the classroom entrance where students can see positive messages, daily schedules, and class information. This area can include your gathering rug, morning board, and information about job helpers and birthdays. This area sets the tone for all you do and learn together.

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Heritage Primary Sources Library Lesson Plan 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Before discovering Studies Weekly, I remember having to look up, research, and study all our standards and then search for curriculum, information, and ideas to create daily lessons. Take advantage of your resources like lesson plans, teaching strategies, printables, and more. As always, please stay healthy and happy!

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Artifacts Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies 52

Students of History

JUNE 5, 2023

These 9-page packets are perfect for an EOC review because they include maps, vocabulary, people, images, timelines, and primary sources to analyze. These make reviewing vocab a little more engaging and help students recall information more easily.

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History Primary Sources Lesson Plan Critical Thinking 52

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. The Journal of Experimental Education , 85 (1), 155–172. 2019, August 22).

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Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

How should all of them be incorporated into lesson plans and assessments, and how often? 4QM curriculum writers consistently incorporate these sorts of thinking activities into units and lessons organically — not just to tick off a box on a list of historical thinking skills. Which thinking skills are most important?

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Primary Sources Social Studies Civics History 40

Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

” Reading is a crucial skill that helps our young learners become informed, educated, and empowered adults. .” Substitution is changing phonemes to other phonemes to make new words. For example, changing the /c/ in “cat” to a /b/ makes “bat.” Onset Rime Strategies — PreK/Kindergarten.

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Primary Sources Heritage K-12 Professional Development 52

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

After going over key terms and background information (as suggested by Wolfe-Rocca in the PDF version of the activity), I arranged my students in groups of four and they investigated six of the included documents. As a teacher, the lesson was extremely detailed and made me feel prepared.

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History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. Several organizations are providing information to help educators teach about Reconstruction.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 108

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources. I mean, one of the big problems with the so-called AP African American Studies curriculum was the debate over what was a primary source versus secondary source.

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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52