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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning

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Personalized paths, oral histories, and local histories are strategies that resonate with the NCSS definition to bring the human experience into the K-12 classroom, because these strategies allow students to determine how their life fits into the story of history and to discover why the past matters to them.

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Need Inspiration Designing Station Rotation Lessons for your Math, English, History, or Science Class?

Catlin Tucker

So, I’ve created the following idea documents brainstorming learning activities that teachers in math, English, and history may find helpful as they plan for their station rotation lessons. History: Station Rotation Ideas. When I work with history teachers, I adapt and use many of the strategies I employed in my English class.

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How teachers can make history current this Presidents’ Day

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There are many reasons for the lack of interest in history and other subjects. Teachers worry that it’s hard for them to compete with smartphones and the type of entertaining content that students can access at any time, including TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Students agree. So what’s a teacher to do?

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7 Black History Month resources to use the whole year

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This year’s 8th most-read story focuses on Black History Month resources educators can use throughout the school year. During Black History Month, educators have the opportunity to delve into the difficult–and often uncomfortable–experiences of Black people in the U.S. and around the world.

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Interactive Field Trips Offered to Educators for Black History Month, President’s Day, Women’s History Month and Earth Day

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In preparation for several upcoming significant historical, cultural and societal events, the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) has curated a list of live, interactive virtual field trips that educators can access to enrich discussions surrounding Black History Month, President’s Day, Women’s History Month and Earth Day.

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Certell’s Poptential™ Free American History Curriculum Highlights Legacy of African Americans for Black History Month

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. — Poptential , a family of free, award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content about the Civil Rights Movement for instruction during Black History Month. history and society. Poptential course packages in American History, World History, U.S.

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Virtual, Interactive Expeditions for Black History Month Provide Students with a Diverse and Multi-Dimensional Look at African Americans Throughout History

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January 28, 2022) – The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration , a veteran expert and thought leader in the virtual learning space, today launched a Black History Month package of fresh and engaging virtual and interactive real-world expeditions for students that cover significant historical, cultural and societal events.

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