NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

Primary Sources 100

Primary Sources Archiving Library Museum 100

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’d also check out the historical photos of Texas, Mexico, and Teddy Roosevelt from Southern Methodist University and the World War II advertisements and posters from the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website? Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook?

K-12 102

K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 102

TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Video Activities: We added new video activities for middle school and high school social studies programs. Key Science Concept Videos: In middle school science programs, Key Science Concepts now include a slideshow, video, and interactive questions.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Professional Development Library Middle School 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. In kindergarten and middle school, we only ever talked about Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King.”

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The teachers learned about the Tougaloo Nine , a group of students from historically black Tougaloo College in Jackson, who staged read-ins at the white-only Jackson Municipal Library in 1961. In the Canton Public School District, Howard Hollins teaches sixth-grade world geography and citizenship.

K-12 97

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 97

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Distribution of Delmont’s book is a direct challenge to the widespread removal of books from libraries and classrooms across the country. History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources. Students read the James Thompson editorial “ Should I Sacrifice to Live Half American?

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52