Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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 lesson plans throughout the school year. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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Civics for All of US

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Addressing Racial Discrimination in Voting During the Kennedy Administration Katie Munn Mon, 09/11/2023 - 12:38 Body Investigate primary source material from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to learn how citizens and government officials used the tools of democracy to challenge racial discrimination in voting.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2019

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 lesson plans, videos, primary sources, virtual classes, and programs.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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 lesson planning.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

Students find it engaging, and teachers find it easy to implement.” ” Learn more about Studies Weekly’s PreK-6 Social Studies.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It’s student-friendly, relevant topics, you can use it alone or add to it, aligned to the standards, and lots of support & extension materials and opportunities to tie into real-world issues.” ” Learn more about Studies Weekly’s PreK-6 Social Studies.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. They are not available for homeschools.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Take advantage of your resources like lesson plans, teaching strategies, printables, and more. Your Studies Weekly Online classroom contains digital versions of your publications and more online resources like digital lesson plans, videos, and presentations you can project to the whole class.

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Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

TJ Warsnak and Derek Schutte Exploring Strategies for Analyzing Primary Sources Erika Lowery Don’t forget to register! Using Online Geo Tools to Enhance Your Instruction and Make Your Kids Smarter Glenn Wiebe 3 Guys and a Textbook: A Lighthearted Look At Increasing Engagement (for mature audiences only!) Hope to see you there!

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight Lesson Plans Press Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts 10 Summer Tips to Prepare a Great Classroom June 6, 2024 Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 You Have Primary Sources in Your (..)

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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 primary sources.

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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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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

Plus there’s lesson plans for every day, flipped classroom videos, Google Slides, primary sources, worksheets, and more for every unit. Joining up gives you everything you need in one place so you never have to stress about planning again!

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula.

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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. I love going back to my US History Review Packets for each unit in the curriculum.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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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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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

Onset Rime Strategies — PreK/Kindergarten. Unraveling the differences: Phonological awareness vs. phonics. Voyager Sopris Learning.

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History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

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.

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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. Giving students this trust creates a partnership of learning and growth between students and the teacher.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

For a copy of my lesson, follow this link. For a copy of a completed student version of this lesson, follow this link. This is because we need to get rid of it faster so we can be off of lockdown already.

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History Tech

MAY 5, 2023

I admit it. I’m a fan. And watch it every year. Especially this year. Held in downtown Kansas City, home of the world champion Kansas City Chiefs, the NFL Draft is my spring booster shot that holds me through until August’s preseason. And I know you’re all locked into the last few weeks of the […]

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History Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas City Joe’s burnt ends. And other […]

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

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History Tech

AUGUST 28, 2023

Can you ever have too much Sam Wineburg? The answer is. no, no you can’t. So enjoy this re-mix of a post from a couple of years ago. ———————– Okay. I don’t want kids to hate social studies. Let’s be clear about that from the get go. I also think […]

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History Tech

AUGUST 14, 2023

I was on a quick Zoom call the other night when of the high school teachers casually mentioned that his first day back with students had gone pretty well. Seriously!? Cue the jaw drop. I’m always a little bit shocked when I hear about districts that crank up during the first few days of August […]

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Founded in 2009 by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics also offers readings and standards-aligned lesson plans about the Constitution, the three branches of government, media and influence, and many other topics.

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History Tech

MARCH 20, 2023

Just so you know. Huge March Madness fan. First four days of the tournament rank right up there with the NCSS conference, Fourth of July, and the winter holidays. And the 2023 version did not disappoint. Would have liked KU to have done better but otherwise loving the upsets. But somewhere in between Princeton knocking […]

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In using the How We Remember lesson plan, our students engaged with Smith’s writing and started to explore the spaces he visited where the history of enslavement is either remembered or forgotten. This lesson plan allowed students to assume roles, address problems, and create solutions. It was absolutely awesome!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history and its legacy today.” The materials can be downloaded free.

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Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

6th insurrection at the Capitol (I have a lesson for this here ), I came across an article about the only "successful" coup or insurrection in US History. I couldn't believe I had never heard of it before, but I dove into learning all I could about what happened at Wilmington, NC in 1898 and created this lesson plan on it for my students.

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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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