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Collective Memory: How Do Memories of the Past Inform Our Future?

August 26, 2020 By Cynthia Resor
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3 Easy Ways to Make Social Studies Memorable

3 Easy Ways to Make Social Studies Memorable

August 10, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

Social studies classrooms can often become a regurgitation of facts, events, and people throughout history.

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What Social Studies Students Can Learn from Historical Uprisings

What Social Studies Students Can Learn from Historical Uprisings

July 8, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

In the summer of 1381, working people in England were enraged, and for two months they made their voices heard by forming armed groups, marching on several towns and London, destroying the property of hated government officials, and burning tax records.

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Urban Legends Aren’t a New Thing: Teaching Media Literacy with Historical Examples

Urban Legends Aren’t a New Thing: Teaching Media Literacy with Historical Examples

June 29, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

Urban legends, referred to by folklorists as contemporary legends, are fictional stories claimed to be true.

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Why the History of Words Matters in Social Studies

Why the History of Words Matters in Social Studies

May 24, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

Etymology, the study of the origin of words and how the meanings of words change over time, is just as relevant in social studies as it is in English classes.

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A History of Quack Cures: Critical Analysis in the Classroom

A History of Quack Cures: Critical Analysis in the Classroom

May 7, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

Quacks love health crises, and the COVID-19 virus has become very lucrative for people who make claims about unscientific cures.

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Trade Wars Aren’t a New Thing: Examining Economics with Historical Examples

Trade Wars Aren’t a New Thing: Examining Economics with Historical Examples

April 21, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

The United States has been involved in trade wars with nations around the world in recent years.

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Illustrating Essential Questions Using the TV News

Illustrating Essential Questions Using the TV News

April 9, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

Essential questions ask students to consider the “big picture” of a topic.

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Popular Culture Isn’t a New Thing: Considering the Present by Examining the Past

Popular Culture Isn’t a New Thing: Considering the Present by Examining the Past

March 26, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

Popular culture is the culture of the majority or the masses of people in a society—what a large part of a population believes or does, and objects representing beliefs or activities within that society.

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3 Ways to Connect the Industrial Revolution to the Modern World

3 Ways to Connect the Industrial Revolution to the Modern World

March 19, 2020
By Cynthia Resor

The Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed technology, the economy, and daily life.

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