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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 29 for October 21, 2020
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 27 for October 7, 2020
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RECOMMENDED: Northeast Regional Conference for the Social Studies (NERC) 2020 will be online!
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Pairing Picture Books with Primary Sources: Primary Source Sets from Missouri School Librarian Tom Bober Feature Disability History
Bober’s new Primary Source Podcast compliments his KnowledgeQuest blog posts on picture books and primary sources
People familiar with the work of Emerging America will know that our Accessing Inquiry project and clearinghouse of resources offers one of the…
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 27 for September 30, 2020
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RECOMMENDED: Northeast Regional Conference for the Social Studies (NERC) 2020 will be online! - October 4-14 - Info & Register. An impressive program! Free. Easy to participate.
Teaching Tolerance Resources on Voter Suppression.
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In celebration of our new course on teaching disability history in the K-12 classroom, we invited Wendy Harris, a teacher at a school for the Deaf with expertise in teaching DeafBlind students, to share her thoughts about disability with us. The topic of Deafness as a disability gives the opportunity to begin with an exploration of the conception of DISABILITY itself, and the question of what abil…
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September 23-24 Massachusetts DESE Virtual Civic Engagement Conference. Emerging America workshop on students with disabilities and civic engagement Sept. 24 - 6:30pm.
NERC online - October 4-14
The Library of Congress updated its Teacher's Page: www.loc.gov/programs/teachers. Watch recorded intro webinar.
History's Mysteries K-5 Curriculum - investigate migration, citizenship, the First Amendm…
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 25 for September 2, 2020
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BLACK COMMUNITIES AND AGENCY - Online fall grad course with Kelley Brown and Amilcar Shabazz! Info & Registration.
New Grade 1 lessons deepen the exploration of George Washington in Emerging America’s free K-5 curriculum, History’s Mysteries: "How do communities make good decisions?" and "What makes a go…
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 7, Issue 24 for August 19, 2020
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New Grade 1 lessons deepen the exploration of George Washington in Emerging America's free K-5 curriculum, History's Mysteries: "How do communities make good decisions?" and "What makes a good leader?"
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Emerging America FALL COURSES now open for registration!
Leadership for Remote Learning by Rebecca Mazur, CES, and Rebecca Woodland, UMass Amherst - identifies ways to meet five needs of teachers in the shifting school planning environment.
2020 Immigrant Student Success Toolkit offers links to social studies teaching resources with tips for remote learning strategies to su…
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NOTE: First developed at Emerging America, History's Mysteries has become Private i History Detectives, a product of iCivics.
History's Mysteries K-5 Curriculum
The kids loved this! They were very interested in the slideshow the entire time. The narration made it seem like a movie. They asked a lot of thoughtful questions and had lots of good discussions.…