Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Epic eBook of Web Tools & Apps

Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. Create your own teaching resources or have your students take the reins.

The Big List of Remote Learning Social Studies Resources • TechNotes Blog

In this post, we explore useful sites dedicated to teaching social studies subjects like history, economics, geography, government, and sociology.

5 Ways That Teachers Are Using Breakout Rooms to Create More Learner-Centered Experiences in Distance Learning

New Guide to innovative K-12 Social Studies Distance-Learning Resources — KidCitizen

Teachers: Find innovative Social-Studies resources for in-class or remote teaching and learning in the new Social Studies Distance Learning Resources Guide

Educators Turn to Bitmoji to Build Community and Engagement

Both fun and practical, Bitmoji classrooms are adding some levity to fall planning this year.

S1E1 Inaugural Episode

In the inaugural episode we answer: What is this podcast? and What is a primary source? Show links to primary source definitions:Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/programs/teachers/getting-started-with-primary-sources/ University of Massachusett

Why Geography Should Be Part Of Every 21st Century Education

Learners today are coming of age amid a confluence of crises. It’s all happening at a time when educators and families are grappling with the realities of learning in new environments because of COVID-19. Geography is a science powerfully suited to address these challenges.

Resources for Teaching About Racism, Anti-racism, and Human Rights | Social Studies

The following articles have been selected from our three main journals for K-12 teachers: Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. These articles are grouped by topic for easy reference. Also included are recent current event responses that address racism and call for human rights education.

From Headline to Homework: Teaching Current Events Through Anti-Bias Framework | Social Studies

Are discussions about Black Lives Matters making their way into your classroom? Do you want to bring up topics in the news like immigration, COVID-19, and the 2020 election, but are not sure how? Between overheard conversations and social media feeds, young people are regularly exposed to news featuring controversial issues that involve bias, hate, and social justice. They want to be part of the conversation and we should encourage their engagement. Are you concerned that these discussions will backfire and deteriorate into arguments, discord, and less understanding?

Looking Back and Forward this Fall

It may seem like the world’s greatest understatement to observe that much has happened since schools shuttered and moved online in early 2020. Our communities have weathered (and continue to weather) multiple overlapping crises and conflicts, as well as come together in solidarity, support, and resistance. As educators return to the classroom—many through virtual means—there are a great many events to recollect and reflect upon. What follows is a list of some of the themes that we are sitting with from the last several months, as well as links to articles sharing perspectives that educators might consider as they prepare to greet students and colleagues.

Controversial conversations about current events — News Literacy Project

The News Literacy Project's director of education offers successful strategies for engaging students in discussions about controversial topics.

Everything Your Students Need to Know About Immigration History

Teach Immigration History from the University of Texas at Austin explains the important and complicated history of immigration to the United States for general audiences and high school teachers of U.S. history and civics courses.  The backbone of the website is an 80-item chronology of key events, laws, and court rulings that are further explained by a dozen thematic lesson plans on topics such as citizenship, an overview of major laws, gender and immigration, and migration within the Americas.  

Texas Originals | Humanities Texas

'It's a gimmick': There's more to your world map than meets the eye

Why do most world maps depict north up top? And how does that tendency shape our perceptions of what is valuable or superior? Gary Nunn explains.

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Mapping a World of Cities

This interactive timeline brings together digitized maps from ten U.S. map collections to tell the story of urban history through cartography.

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Lies My Bookshelf Told Me: Slavery in Children’s Literature

Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.