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

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. Middle schoolers are still young enough to want the occasional hug, but old enough to have interesting conversations with. When her middle school students asked, “Why do we need to learn about American government in the seventh grade?”

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

The idea, he said, is that students will be inspired “to go on a scavenger hunt through the primary source archives to learn more.”. While the app is open to the public through the Google and Apple app store, Kinfolk is targeted to middle school students and teachers.

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Archiving Primary Sources Archival Research Artifacts 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Tim Matthews, a middle school history teacher outside Boston, uses iCivics games to teach the Constitution, which his class calls “the rulebook.” Take a game like, ‘Do I have a Right?’ ” said Brian Furgione, a middle-school social studies teacher near Orlando, Florida. “In

Civics 86

Civics Education K-12 Primary Sources 86

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the Canton Public School District, Howard Hollins teaches sixth-grade world geography and citizenship. He’s committed to impressing on Porter Middle School students how important that history is, especially in a city that was an epicenter of civil rights protests and violence.

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K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 92

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources. Steph Schares Middle School Extended Learning Teacher, Ames, Iowa Half American by Matthew F. #TeachTruth #BHM2022 pic.twitter.com/LFDfO1qcQM — Valencia Abbott (@vannabbott) November 8, 2022 In my U.S. I appreciate it!

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 52

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The primary and secondary sources are perfect for middle school readers at multiple levels. It introduces middle school students that there are forms of resistance that aren’t immediately obvious. Jared Leone High School Social Studies Teacher, Springfield, Massachusetts In U.S.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High 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

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 99

K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 99

TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

“Active learning isnt just about engagementits about students truly understanding the material by teaching it to others,” says Kathleen Geraghty , a former middle school classroom teacher and current district resource teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Geography Civics Middle School 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 107