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Eric Beckman

Latino in America - CNN.com - 0 views

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      Check out the map!
  • Map: Tracing Hispanic population growth in U.S.
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    Current news articles and information on Latino/as in the US
Eric Beckman

''Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?'' - Stenhouse Publishers - 0 views

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      Ayers is one of the talking heads in the Reconstruction video from PBS, putting him in the esteemed company of Foner and Blight.
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    I found this book, which can be previewed online, very useful as a guide for uncovering history content. Lesh provides clear examples of how to structure primary source based lessons for US History classes. I have marked up copy.
Andy Beede

How Brazil is halting deforestation in the Amazon - YouTube - 0 views

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    This clip gives us a ray of hope. It shows how farmers use cutting and burning techniques, but helicopters and satellite technology help the Brazilian government slow deforestation by 75%. 4:09
Eric Beckman

U.S. History Lessons | Stanford History Education Group - 0 views

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    The new SHEG US History site.  Requires free registration.  71 lessons
Eric Beckman

Teaching American History Grant Modules - 1 views

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    Inquiry and Primary source based lessons for US History.
Eric Beckman

The Great Depression - 0 views

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    The curriculum begins with a message from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and an introductory essay, "The Great Depression: An Overview," written by David C. Wheelock, a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and an expert on the Great Depression.
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    Some great lessons. I personally will be using some form of Lesson 2 - What Do People Say? (work with 6 letters written from various people in the 20s of the causes of the G.D.) and Lesson 3.What Really Caused the Great Depression? (create a budget sheet before and after the G.D. and identify tradeoffs made. They have pdf.s available as well as smartboard material.
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    Economics focused lessons on the Great Depression. Some use primary source data. Some sources are fictionalized letters.
Eric Beckman

Recollections of the Sioux massacre, an authentic history of the Yellow Medicine incide... - 2 views

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      Does anyone know what this image depicts?
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    Published 47 years after the fact this account presents a very white view of the US-Dakota War of 1862
Eric Beckman

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web - 0 views

  • Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. histor
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    Includes thousands of primary source documents, readings about how historians make use of evidence, and lesson plans
Andy Beede

Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Council on Foreign Relations - 0 views

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    Best used in an Honors class after "Jeds & Pads," this 12:13 video has great information and primary source materials, but the narrator has a monotone voice and uses high level vocabulary (i.e. "foment").
Eric Beckman

Reading LIke a Historian - 3 views

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      Poster text for thinking like a historian can be downloaded as PDFs from the introduction page
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    75 Lessons for US History
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    This looks like exactly what I was thinking about. I love it when the wheel doesn't have to be completely reinvented!
Eric Beckman

Japanese Internment Inquiry - 0 views

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    Mankato West US history teacher's lesson. Primary source inquiry.
Eric Beckman

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    Chicago Racial Demographics changing over time.  This animated .gif shows the growth and expansion of Chicago's segregated black ghettoes on the south and west sides.  Very dramatic. Uses census data, 1910-200
Eric Beckman

Race Maps of US Cities (66 pics) - 0 views

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    Shows continuing racial segregation and concentration in American Cities.  Check out Detroit!
Eric Beckman

Measuring the U.S. Melting Pot - Interactive Heritage Map - Bloomberg - 0 views

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    Shows US ethnic distribution by county.  Data from the 2010 census
Eric Beckman

The US and Spanish American Revolutions | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - 0 views

  • Of all the revolutions in modern history, those in Spanish America in the early nineteenth century might be most closely related to eighteenth-century revolution that created the United States
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    Article comparing Latin American Revolutions with the American Revolutions.  Notes some interesting connections.
Eric Beckman

The 10 most segregated urban areas in America | Slide Show - Salon.com - 0 views

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    Study of racial segregation using 2010 census data.  Rust belt cities dominate, Milwaukee is #1
Eric Beckman

T-RACES: Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces - 1 views

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    Useful looking resource with images of the original "redlining" maps from the 1930s.  These maps created the practice and the term redlining.  Has HOLC A-D graded areas imposed on present day maps for cities in California and North Carolinia.
Eric Beckman

History Lesson Plans | HTI - 0 views

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    From Ohio State University: primary source based lesson plans for European History, US History, and Historical Inquiry.
Andy Beede

America The Story of Us - D-Day Invasion - History.com Videos - 0 views

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    Primary source footage in color with brief "talking heads" about D-Day's importance.
Eric Beckman

Connect with Haji Kamal - 0 views

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    10 minute, branching scenario game about US counter-insurgency in Afghanistan
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