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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. For example, most people over 30 can remember where they were on Sept.

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Using Conversational Video

HistoryRewriter

Conversational Videos in the Classroom from Social Studies School Service on Vimeo. Previously published by Social Studies School Services. Participating in oral histories improves engagement and increases the amount of historical empathy students develop. Access slides at bit.ly/CONVOvidSSSS. CONVOvidSSSS.

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Oral History Offers a Model for How Schools Can Introduce Students to Complex Topics

Education Week - Social Studies

Community history projects like a curriculum in Memphis, Tenn. can help students grapple with issues like school segregation, experts say.

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products. Elliott-High Eagle, Oral History, interviewed by David Zierler Oct. 2, 2020, for AIP.org.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

It’s hard to hear above the two dozen students in Charles Willis’s class The History of Revere, which looks at how the community, first settled in the 1630s, has changed over time. Students have a say in how the classroom experience is structured, as well. He also knows how hard it is to make it as an immigrant.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

The school has lost a bunch of teachers, but three of my son’s core subject teachers — English, social studies and science — have all left since Christmas. The post ‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching about the climate crisis: Jubilant protests, restorative justice and role play

The Hechinger Report

The other thing I try to do is a lot of role plays for social studies and history. Emi struggles with a more straightforward history essay assignment on the climate crisis and the transition to renewables and turns it into something of an oral history, interviewing her parents.

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