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NHD 2016: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Economy, Science & Technology

September 24, 2015 by PSN Leave a Comment

Below you will find Library of Congress resources curated by TPS-Barat that relate to National History Day 2016 topic ideas from the Chicago Metro History Education Center. This set specifically focuses on economy, science & technology but all topic ideas are related to the 2016 NHD theme: Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History. Interest in this area involves studying labor, trade, business, advertising, consumerism Arbitration: Exchanging Mediation of Labor & Capital to Solve … [Read more...]

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NHD 2015: CMHEC Topic Ideas – Economics, Science, and Art, Architecture & Design

October 7, 2014 by PSN Leave a Comment

Below you will find Library of Congress resources curated by TPS-Barat that relate to National History Day 2015 topic ideas from the Chicago Metro History Education Center. This set specifically focuses on the economy, scientific innovation, art, architecture, and design but all topic ideas are related to the 2015 NHD theme: Leadership & Legacy in History. Links to more NHD and CMHEC content follow this resource list. NOTE: historical newspaper coverage is from 1836-1922 Economy The … [Read more...]

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Teaching Now: Scaffolding Primary Source Learning

June 5, 2014 by PSN 1 Comment

This is a guest post from George Mueller, a high school U.S. history and world studies teacher at Dunbar Vocational Academy in Chicago, Illinois. As part of the CPS Social Science Academy, we were tasked with developing and implementing a lesson using primary sources from the Library of Congress. The TPS-Barat Primary Source Nexus has so many resources and is easy to use so that's where I started. I wanted something that related to Chicago and related to my students. So when I found the primary … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching & Learning Tagged With: chicago, close reading, cps, es, guest post, interviews, june, meat packing, meatpackers, ms, oral histories, primary source analysis, primary source thinking triangle, scaffolding, social science framework, teaching learning, teaching now, unions

Primary Source Learning: Oral Histories & Personal Narratives

April 17, 2014 by PSN Leave a Comment

LOC.gov contains numerous oral history and personal narrative resources. Check out the lists below! Teaching resources Analyzing Primary Sources: Learning from Oral Histories Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers & the Unions Learning from the Source: Digital Stories of Our Heroes Learning from the Source: Media & Migrant Laborer Perspectives Primary Source Learning: September 11, 2001 Capturing an Oral History: Tips for Students Billy the Kid: … [Read more...]

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Primary Source Learning: Women in U.S. History

March 7, 2014 by PSN Leave a Comment

Access ready-made primary source lessons and activities to learn how some incredible women throughout U.S. history helped advance the nation. Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers & the Unions Learning from the Source: Perceptions & Roles of American Women Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing Primary Source Learning: Women’s Road to the Vote (woman suffrage teaching resources) Primary Source Learning: Women in the White House Women in the Civil … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching & Learning Tagged With: chicago, civil war, contraband, cwr, first ladies, ladies, lesson plans, march, meatpackers, primary source activities, primary source learning, spies, teaching, teaching learning, TL, vote, white house, woman, woman suffrage, women, women's history

City Spotlight: Chicago, Illinois

March 8, 2013 by PSN 1 Comment

PSN primary source collections Jane Addams & Hull House John Peter Altgeld Daniel Burnham Frank Lloyd Wright Anarchist Emma Goldman Dizzy Gillespie Louis H. Sullivan Chicago Cubs First American Automobile Race Great Chicago Fire Nuclear Fission Teaching resources Guided primary source analyses The Red Flag or the Anarchists of Chicago 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition School Strike Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers … [Read more...]

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