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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Civics for All of US

MAY 4, 2023

Kennedy, most Presidents have had an official photographer, resulting in a wealth of primary source material. Ford Presidential Library and Museum for this online teacher workshop and discover resources for teaching with presidential photographs. Join the Gerald R.

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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 4, 2024

There is a broad representation of languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials. With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains materials from antiquity to the present across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries, and the surrounding region.

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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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TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Free Lessons: TCI’s free lessons quickly engage students with videos, vibrant images, primary sources, and more. Assessment Library: With over 94,000 custom assessments, you’ve been hard at work editing TCI tests. The new Assessment Library makes finding, editing, and assigning assessments even easier.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2022

In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning. The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning.

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Leah Cleary

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Along with these solutions, I’ll be adding resources to my Free Resource Library that you can edit and use in your classroom. You can get access to the Library by signing up for my email list. How can primary sources help us to understand the rise of the nation-state in Germany under Otto von Bismarck?

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities.

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Heritage Primary Sources Library Lesson Plan 52

ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

With the internet, students can access primary source documents, research just about anything, and support their own understanding with explanations accompanied by video, animations, or other helpful visualizations. school and library to the internet. Access Resources. Use Professional Tools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

Students without home internet access will likely need to go to public spaces, such as libraries and restaurants, to keep up with their coursework. Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds live off the stipends from financial aid as their primary source of income. Housing and food insecurity.

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Leah Cleary

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Students annotated laminated primary sources and collaboratively planned essays. I have these templates in my free resource library. Collaboration with plain old chart paper. They even snapped images so they had access to the info outside of the classroom. Don’t Forget About Notebook Paper!

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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. Let’s take maps, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

Credit: Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA. During their research, Nia and her classmates immersed themselves in such details, interviewing participants and scouring primary sources. ” Credit: Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

Instead of cutting back, we need to devote more resources to libraries, mobile schools, recreational activities, dance programs and other services that can operate in violent hot spots. Schools aren’t going to teach French better than living in France — meaning, we shouldn’t look to schools as our only or even primary source of learning.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

I was able to locate Topeka’s “shut down” order through the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America. Many states and municipalities issued shut down orders in response to the Spanish Influenza in 1918.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. But he does work in a library.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When our site pops up in the search results, and they click on our site, they see that we have thousands of primary source documents, many accompanied by introductions and study questions. Most teachers discover our database when searching for a specific document.

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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?

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org.

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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. “I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class. Santana goes deep.”

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Still, some students had difficulty differentiating between ChatGPT’s outputs and reliable sources of information, which led to discussions about trustworthiness, primary sources, and peer-review. so that they may be queried individually or as larger libraries using a chatbot interface.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims.

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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. 0 — Number of fourth-grade classrooms in Mississippi that use a social studies textbook published more recently than 2006.

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Teaching American History

MAY 14, 2024

Thus, many of the primary sources after the ratification of the Constitution concern various rules governing debate, which bills can be sent to the floor, what powers the committees will have, and so forth. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-hec-35195.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 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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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. 11, 1972: D.C.

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