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Hughes, Ryan E.; Thomson, Sarah L. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2016
Provide your students with handwritten letters from three young students to then U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, written a few months prior to the first celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 1970. These primary source historical documents can be a part of upper elementary students' exploration of civic activism in the service of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Elementary School Students, Civics, Grade 5
Steiner, Bernard C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
Henry Barnard was "one of the men who revitalized the American common-school system", and as such, he is clearly worthy of a biography. Not only was his service a noted one to elementary education, but as college president and as the organizer of the United States Bureau of Education his activity also touched other parts of the country's…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Educational Development, College Presidents, Educational History