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Featured Source: Panoramic View of Mount Rainier
Zoom into the map and analyze it, creating a bulleted list of what you learned from your analysis and another list of any questions that you have; click the image above to access the source record. Use the scale to trace a 1-mile square grid over the image portion of the map. Use the grid […]
Citizen U News: Issue 6
SUBSCRIBE | News Archive We’ve come to the end of another school year, and will be on hiatus over the summer preparing to hit the ground running, and harder, for 2019-20, after ending the 2018-19 on a very high note, with the eleventh annual Our American Voice Summit, this year in two locations, and […]
Primary Source Spotlight: Music
National Jukebox PSN curated primary source sets American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Marian Anderson California Folk Music Project George M. Cohan Aaron Copland Duke Ellington James Reese Europe Ella Fitzgerald George Gershwin & Gullah Culture Dizzy Gillespie W.C. Handy & the Blues Victor Herbert Billie Holiday Jazz Music Julia Ward Howe Mahalia Jackson […]
Primary Source Review: May 2019
Find all the fabulous primary sources and teaching ideas shared May 2019 by @PSNTPS from the Primary Source Nexus, the Library of Congress, the House, the Senate, the World Digital Library, teachers and students in the classroom, and more! We’ve got Civics, History, ELA and STEAM resources—for immediate access to all of these, simply follow […]
Primary Source Spotlight: Polio
Historical newspaper coverage of polio A Special Report on Polio 1955 film U.S. legislation related to polio from 1985 on When Polio Was Defeated by a Vaccine…and a Seven-Year-Old Girl Now See Hear! blog post October 28, 2014 Polio timeline History of Vaccines, College of Physicians of Philadelphia What is Polio? CDC Jonas Salk historical […]
Middle School Teachers: Apply for Civic Engagement Champions Award
The National Association for State Boards of Education (NASBE) has announced a new Civic Engagement Champions Award for middle school teachers who promote their students’ active citizenship. This first year, the award will be open to teachers of grades 5-8 from 4 states representing NASBE’s four regional membership areas (see below). Teachers should self-nominate and […]
TPS Spotlight: Civics Educator Micro-Credential Pilot for Illinois Teachers
The TPS Civics Educator Micro-Credential Program consists of 3 distinct courses, each leading to an individual digital badge. The courses are “stacked” as one course builds to the next. A teacher who completes all 3 courses in the stack earns a “master” digital badge. The courses include: TPS Civics Teaching Expert TPS Civics Curriculum Design Expert TPS Civics Coaching Expert […]
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