September 11: Teaching Tragedy
As the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, help students understand the attacks and their impacts on us since that tragic day. We’ve gathered teaching resources from many sources.
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A Social Studies Podcast Project for Right Now
In response to the sudden shift to remote learning, history teacher Sarah Cooper has jettisoned her usual fourth-quarter Civil War unit and launched an opportunity for her 8th graders to create podcasts on challenging events in US history. Here’s the project in process.
Total War: Wrestling with a Scholarly Article
In Sarah Cooper’s never-ending effort to reach beyond textbook basics, she sometimes asks students to read a selection from a scholarly journal article or popular history book. Carefully sharing a JSTOR piece on Sherman’s March helped students grasp “total war.”
