Uncovering Kentucky history: Ancient American Indian textiles
This article highlights aspects of Kentucky’s deep – and not so deep – past as revealed by uncommon and often overlooked documents, archaeological sites and the artifacts they hold.
The power of role-playing games for deeper learning experiences
Three Kentucky educators are using role-playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons, to enrich student learning experiences.
National Women’s History Museum provides December resources
The National Women’s History Museum is offering free educational resources to amplify women’s stories.
Students learn local history through community-based inquiry projects
As social studies teachers, we know that everyone in every community in the United States plays a part in the American story. However, when I was growing up, we did not feel that was the case.
National Archives provides social studies resources for teachers
Educational materials for a range of social studies subjects are available through the National Archives.
National Archives offers free civics programs
The National Archives is taking applications for the Civics for All of US distance learning program. Multiple options are available for groups of 10 or more students in K-12, free of charge. Each program is led by an educator at National Archives sites, the federal Center for Legislative Archives and presidential libraries across the country.
How should I teach about Thanksgiving?
How should I teach about Thanksgiving? This is a big (and frequent) question from educators to the National Museum of the American Indian and its national education initiative, Native Knowledge 360° (NK360°).
Revised middle school civics curriculum is latest offering in Bill of Rights Institute’s library of free resources and programs
The Bill of Rights Institute's free Being an American: Exploring the Ideals That Unite Us curriculum has been one of the organization's most popular online resources for teaching middle school civics since the Institute was founded in 1999.
Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Students
In 2018, with the passage of House Bill 128, Kentucky joined over a dozen states in the United States that officially mandated the teaching of the Holocaust and other genocides.
KDE seeks applicants for Social Studies Standards committees
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is seeking social studies teachers of all grade levels to apply to participate in a social studies standards review to meet the requirements of Section 4(3)(a) of Senate Bill 1 (2022).