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Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
A new primary source set from the Library of Congress features 18 historical primary sources that teachers can use to facilitate analyzing primary sources related to intentional, sustained mass persuasion campaigns.
Posted in: Primary Source Highlights, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
This blog post illustrates how STEM teachers can use free primary sources related to the famous female inventor, Beulah Henry, to engage students in three-dimensional learning.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies, Women's History
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
A key aspect of information literacy is evaluating the relationship between claims and evidence: Do claims follow clearly and logically from evidence? Can the evidence also support alternate claims? Guide students to apply information literacy skills to a 1912 article “Mars Peopled by One Giant Thinking Vegetable.”
Posted in: Literacy, Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
This blog offers free primary sources and teaching strategies to help students reflect on how some WWI-era music sought to invoke a singular American identity.
Posted in: Fine and Performing Arts, Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945)