Get Teaching Resources for National Hispanic Heritage Month!
Hispanic Heritage Month starts on September 15, 2021! This edition includes curated resources to celebrate and teach students about Hispanic Heritage.
President Schulzki's Message: Remember When?
Remember when the start of the school year was filled with the anticipation of new faces, new classes, new colleagues, new schools, and new challenges for social studies educators? Remember when we've looked at our class rosters and wondered... Continue reading.
NCSS 101st Annual Conference Goes Virtual
After much deliberation, the NCSS Board of Directors has made the decision to host the 101st Annual Conference as a fully virtual event.
This article from the January 2021 edition of Social Studies and the Young Learner details how historical understanding can be enhanced when students “see themselves” in the primary sources presented to them. Read it here.
EDSITEment has compiled guiding questions and lesson plans to help students learn about Hispanic Heritage. View the guide here.
Hispanic Exploration Primary Source Set
The Library of Congress has created a primary source set containing images, audio, maps, and lesson plan ideas for bolstering lessons on Hispanic Heritage. Explore the set.
Facts, Figures, and Stories from the Census Bureau
Bolster a Hispanic Heritage classroom discussion or lesson plan with the United States Census Bureau's stories, population data, and trade figures. Learn more.
Borders and Identity: Identidad y Frontera
Identidad y Fronteras: Borders and Identity is a bilingual educational resource based on research and documentation from the 1993 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program and explores culture along the United States-Mexico border. Today, these resources are more relevant than ever, especially in communities grappling with negative impressions of recent immigrant populations. This kit is also an ideal tool for school groups and communities wishing to investigate the borders that mark our place in the world, and our identity within and outside of these borders. Learn how to use the kit in your classroom.
“We are the 9/11 Class:” Lessons for the Next Generation
Hearing the personal stories of young people directly impacted on September 11, 2001, can engage and connect today’s students to this important event as we mark the 20th anniversary. Read the article.
NCSS Helps Establish Learn from History Coalition and Invites You to Attend September 8th Launch
National Council for the Social Studies has become a founding member of the Learn from History Coalition, a broad-based bipartisan coalition made up of more than twenty leading organizations representing school system leaders, educators, parents, and students across America. On September 8th, 2021, a launch event will be held to discuss the widespread misinformation about what is being taught and its negative impact on students, educators, and us all. Learn about the Learn from History Coalition and register for the launch event.
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