Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. A unique and effective way teachers can do this is by giving opportunities for regulating emotions through proprioceptive input activities.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

My favorite place to send students to look for history-based images is the Library of Congress. The librarians have created huge sets of primary source images by topic or time period. Library of Congress Primary Source Sets I encourage students to browse the primary source sets or to search for an image.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts. Let’s take maps, for example.

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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.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

In the old model of education, the job of schools was to teach students everything they needed to know for life and work. 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.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper. Photo by Ryan Kelly for EdSurge.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

During Philadelphia’s 1967 student walkouts, police arrested 57 people, including dozens of young people advocating that local schools teach Black history, hire more diverse teaching staffs and remove police officers. Credit: Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA.

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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. David Hume Kennerly shooting President Gerald R.

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Leah Cleary

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I discuss some of these in my Teaching Gen Z series.) 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. But we don’t teach in a perfect world. The standards are an ideal.

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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. Image from iCivics Race to Ratify game.

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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. This year, we added 36 more free lessons and teaching resources connected with seasonal events. Assessment Library: With over 94,000 custom assessments, you’ve been hard at work editing TCI tests.

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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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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. You may hope to find a new document that will freshen your approach to teaching a particular topic.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do. I was able to locate Topeka’s “shut down” order through the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America.

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Leah Cleary

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Teachers want to be given the freedom to teach as they see fit (We are professionals, right? Students annotated laminated primary sources and collaboratively planned essays. I have these templates in my free resource library. I’m saying we need to get creative with alternatives.” Trust our judgment.).

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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. During WWI, she promoted international peace despite public criticism.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

In churches, community centers and the streets, Mackie’s STEM Saturdays have seen hundreds of students build model cities and levees to teach about coastal erosion and hurricane protection. “In The idea that education can only be found in a brick-and-mortar school is as myopic as the idea that we can jail our way to safety.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Many Mississippi residents say their schools did not teach them important civil rights topics. Maureen Costello, director of Teaching Tolerance. She was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, in Yazoo County, and now teaches there, at Bentonia Gibbs Elementary. The state standards don’t mention him once.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. Distribution of Delmont’s book is a direct challenge to the widespread removal of books from libraries and classrooms across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Ron DeSantis of Florida rejected portions of an African American studies course piloted by the College Board, saying that the Advanced Placement class teaches concepts specifically forbidden by the state’s ban on teaching “critical race theory” and “divisive concepts.” course targeted by Gov. African American studies course.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. She also pursues her own research.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. so that they may be queried individually or as larger libraries using a chatbot interface.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

27) Library of Congress, Miscellaneous Items in High Demand. This document is excerpted from our CDC volume Race and Civil Rights , which contains classroom-ready primary sources, introductory essays and discussion questions. Washington D.C: Recently I was planning to go from Louisville to Nashville by bus.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Research and Editorial Board The editorial team reviews new collections and assists with research and writing, identifies relevant archival materials and works with collection curators to contextualize primary sources. It will meet twice a semester or as needed, depending on the volume of submissions.

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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. Congress was once the great achievement of the American Constitution.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

As part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series , historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. Well, it’s an origin story, and the good thing about this — for teaching purposes, from a pedagogical standpoint — is sometimes these ideas about defined crime live up here.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

This session was the latest in our monthly Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online class series. And I want to let you know that today’s class is hosted by the Zinn Education Project, which is coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change as part of our Teaching for Black Lives Campaign.

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