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Date: Dec 16 2018
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Engaging ALL students in history and social studies education means not only using inclusive practices, but not overlooking the impact of historical changes and events on people with disabilities, and the impact people with disabilities have had on history. Ten lessons on History of People with Disabilities that address the new Massachusetts standards for History and Social Science are currentl…
Date: Dec 12 2018
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Registration newly open for spring courses at Emerging America. Includes new section of Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources. Rhode Island high school grad sues state for denying her Constitutional right to learn civics. See a thoughtful post from the California History and Social Science Project’s Nancy McTygue.New…
Date: Dec 5 2018
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December 6 - 4-6:30pm - Smith College Museum of Art seeks members for Teacher Advisory Group (TAG) - Info and RSVPFeatured Primary Sources Sets from Emerging America:
Pearl Harbor and the U.S. Reaction
Date: Dec 2 2018
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Emerging America has two teacher-assembled sets of primary sources that offer rich detail and related classroom activities to engage student inquiry about Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7 and the events that followed. Library of Congress video interviews with eyewitnesses, photographs (including photos by Ansel Adams), maps, blueprints, and other documents provide many mea…
Date: Nov 28 2018
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Free Webinar on Media Literacy and Civic Engagement. Gain insights on these vital components to 2018 History and Social Science Curriculum Framework and the new Civic Engagement legislation. December 10 - 5:00-6:30pm. Register. New accessible lesson at http://EmergingAmerica.org on Magna Carta. (See bottom of page below).Webinar: Media Literacy and Civ…
Date: Nov 25 2018
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A new lesson, appropriate for 8th grade civics and adaptable for other grades, asks: What impact did the Magna Carta have on the U.S. Constitution and the shaping of the 14th Amendment? With a particular emphasis placed on the due process of law, students analyze and organize primary source documents ranging from a British Court of Common Pleas from 1610 to Chief Justice Warren’s notes on Miran…
Date: Nov 14 2018
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 5, Issue 42 for November 14, 2018
NEWS GOVERNOR SIGNS CIVICS BILL! Details Lesson on veterans available at EmergingAmerica.org. (See below.)Webinar: Understanding the New Practice Standards Heart of the 2018 Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework https://www.collaborative.org/events-and-courses/understanding-standards-histo…
Date: Nov 7 2018
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 5, Issue 41 for November 7, 2018
Date: Oct 31 2018
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EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 5, Issue 40 for October 31, 2018
NEWS Civic Engagement Bill likely in final stages. Breakthrough On End-Of-Sessions Civics Bill May Be Near Mass Civic Learning Coalition.New Accessible Lesson Plan: Six Goals of the United States Constitution Preamble
“...secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…”