C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills. A second teacher candidate described learning more about local history that he ever knew about.

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Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how I collaborated with AI (ChatGPT) to develop a comprehensive 5-6 day unit on Native American history, tailored specifically for my 8th-grade students. It also emphasized the importance of adaptability and continuous improvement in lesson planning.

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American History Geography Local History History 61

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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Local History Civics Lesson Plan Social Science 106

Rosie the History Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Then, I headed out to the cemetery to pay my respects at Sarah’s grave and shared her story with dozens of local history buffs. I have also been digging into my own family history recently. The couple in this photograph are my great-great-grandparents, along with the baby who would be a great aunt of mine.

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Museum Local History History Lesson Plan 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! They could make a local history wiki or, even better, make contributions to our global information commons by directly creating and editing Wikipedia pages.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76