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Throwback Thursday: “Can the Chronicling America primary source newspaper site get any better? Yes. Yes, it can.”

History Tech

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 primary sources 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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Throwback Thursday: Primary sources and personal stories = awesome sauce

History Tech

I got the chance this week to chat a bit with my kids – both now in Minnesota. And during the convo with the youngest, we ended up talking about a letter written by a Norwegian ski instructor in 1943. The guy was teaching US and Canadian special ops guys to ski as part of […]

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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. Primary sources are excellent tools to help students learn how to think like historians. Students should know that their family records are also primary sources!

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TCI Lesson Planning Tools for Teachers

TCI

TCI’s social studies programs provide comprehensive planning and support tools so you can focus on what you do best: teaching. Here are a few tools to help you stay on top of lesson planning. Quickly Review Information in the Planning Box Start your lesson plan with the planning box. Request a sample.

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NewseumED’s Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy

Catlin Tucker

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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Teaching the Progressive Era

Passion for Social Studies

Students will learn this through several primary sources 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.

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How Can Teachers Prepare Students for an AI-Driven Future?

ED Surge

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.