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I’m spending a few days with some of the amazing staff at the Library of Congress (I’m looking at you, Cheryl), learning more about their super cool primarysources and more ways to use them. Yesterday I had a bit of chit-chat with the people in the LOC Newspaper Division that included some tips about […]
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NewseumED is committed to helping students “learn how to authenticate, analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources” and supporting teachers in putting “current events in historical context through standards-aligned lessonplans, videos, primarysources, virtual classes, and programs.”
Students will learn this through several primarysources before deciding if the era was truly progressive after studying the definition. Specifically, it illustrates to students how “slippery” the term Progressivism actually is! So, it shows that while it is a good term to generalize a scattered era of history, it has flaws.
I appreciated having the flexibility to say, I'm super swamped this first week back at school and don’t have time in the evenings; I'm just going to sit down and do this on Sunday when I'm doing my lessonplanning.
Between managing the chaos of lessonplanning, keeping up with my students, and coaching, it’s been a whirlwind. This part helped students connect primarysource analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills.
Simplifying PrimarySources with AI My goal was to simplify the lesson while still helping students build confidence and learn. The language was jargon-filled, dry, and not exactly something an 8th grader doesn’t give a damn about.
Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primarysources , 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.
Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lessonplans throughout the school year. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.
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There are thousands of amazing primarysources 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.
Founded in 2009 by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics also offers readings and standards-aligned lessonplans about the Constitution, the three branches of government, media and influence, and many other topics.
The Stanford History Education Group has been around since 2002. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.
As you progress through the units, you’ll see there’s a variety of lesson formats, so students aren’t doing the same thing every day and getting bored with your class. Some days, students are working in groups or pairs at stations to analyze a set of primarysources.
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These 9-page packets are perfect for an EOC review because they include maps, vocabulary, people, images, timelines, and primarysources to analyze. I love going back to my US History Review Packets for each unit in the curriculum.
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Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primarysources and other information out of their publications. Giving students this trust creates a partnership of learning and growth between students and the teacher.
How should all of them be incorporated into lessonplans 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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