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John H. Bickford – Social Studies, 2024
Second-graders engaged in complex reading, writing, and thinking about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Close readings of secondary and primary sources situated students to discover incongruencies between what is reported within trade-books and what is revealed within historical documents. Scaffolding directed students' scrutiny of…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Racism, Activism
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Rodríguez, Noreen Naseem – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
February 2017 marked the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066), issued on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. While this domestic aspect of World War II is often taught in secondary history classes, it is rarely studied in elementary schools. However, children's…
Descriptors: Japanese Americans, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, War
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
This document presents the proceedings of the 25th Annual Research Forum held June 30, 2021, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following eighteen action research papers: (1) Using Modern Events to Teach United States History (Charles Ahern); (2) "We Are All ESL Teachers": Culturally and…
Descriptors: Action Research, United States History, History Instruction, Current Events
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Bell, Danielle; Henning, Mary Beth – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
In this article, one of the authors talks about a local history project that she gave to second grade students. The students were given the responsibility of using primary and secondary sources to research significant historical figures in the history of DeKalb County, Illinois. DeKalb has been described as "an urban community in a rural…
Descriptors: Local History, Grade 2, Popular Culture, Counties