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.

Heritage 52

Heritage Primary Sources Library Lesson Plan 52

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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Lesson Plan Charter School History Library 67

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Mamie Till-Mobley, Library of Congress Mamie Till-Mobley In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobleys son, Emmett, was tortured and killed because of his race. See how Studies Weekly Social Studies teaches world history from different cultural perspectives by requesting a sample. In 1931, she co-won the Nobel Peace Prize.

World History 97

World History History Archaeology Social Studies 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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. Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!” Thank you, @ZinnEdProject , for helping me teach my students.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

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.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. 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. Santana goes deep.”

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School social studies teacher. 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. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

K-12 102

K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 102

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.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

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.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52