Top products from r/historyteachers
We found 25 product mentions on r/historyteachers. We ranked the 47 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Everything You Need to Ace American History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)
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Part of a 5-book series for each main subject taught in middle school: Math, Science, American History, English Language Arts, and World HistoryYoung readers will find every subjects key concepts, easily digested and summarized, with critical ideas highlighted in neon colors and definitions explaine...
2. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (P.S.)
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3. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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Touchstone Books
4. Cartoon History of the Universe Volumes 1-7
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5. Baoer Cardboard Valencia Quality 3d Virtual Reality Glasses
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Weight: 180gTop Kraft paper material
6. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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Great product!
8. McDougal Littell World History: Patterns of Interaction: Student Edition (C) 2005 2005
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Used Book in Good Condition
9. Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
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10. Social Studies Today: Research and Practice
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11. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
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12. Don't Know Much About® History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About Series)
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Harper Paperbacks
14. Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History)
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15. Understanding and Teaching American Slavery (The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History)
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16. Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11
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18. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Penguin Books
Congrats on getting hired!!! I'd recommend a mix of PD/teaching books and content. When you get bored of one switch to the other. Both are equally important (unless you feel stronger in one area than the other).
For PD, I'd recommend: Teach Like a Pirate, Blended, The Wild Card, and the classic Essential 55. Another one on grading is Fair Isn't Always Equal - this one really changed how I thought about grading in my classes.
As far as content, you have a couple ways to go - review an overview of history like Lies My Teacher Told Me, the classic People's History, or Teaching What Really Happened, or you can go with a really good book on a specific event or time period to make that unit really pop in the classroom. The Ron Chernow books on Hamilton, Washington, or Grant would be great (but long). I loved Undaunted Courage about Lewis & Clark and turned that into a really great lesson.
Have a great summer and best of luck next year!!
This is your book:
https://www.amazon.com/World-History-Interaction-Roger-Beck/dp/061818774X
I'm rarely a fan of textbooks, but holy shit, this one is good. It's engaging and clear, often used for "regular" and honors alike. It's fun to read. It's split up into enough sections that a freshman won't go insane from boredom. I've even printed relevant sections from the book for other classes from the, uh, website that posts it for free...which you didn't hear from me...
Seriously though. As far as huge textbooks go, this one is more than manageable and a great choice. No complaints yet!
Geography Coloring Book (3rd Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131014722/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_K7MjDbD2FVF4T
This is a little older and some of the maps are a bit dated but it is still a great resource. It has maps for all of the continents but are not just “find this place” maps. For example, one of the maps is on the different climate zones in the world. My students have learned a lot from coloring these!
Seterra is also a great website to check out!
I don't use textbooks in history. I'll be honest - it's tough. You will need a lot of sources and do things like guided notetaking/lecturing and PowerPoints to get the information across. Brief, 2-3 paragraph readings with 3-5 questions from the readings are good for homework too. Try to find condensed versions of history books to help you as well. For example, something like this which I use - https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-American-History-Notebook/dp/0761160833/ref=asc_df_0761160833/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312178232056&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5033432836201444507&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003217&hvtargid=pla-481046914717&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60258870937&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312178232056&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5033432836201444507&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003217&hvtargid=pla-481046914717
I thought don’t know much about history was pretty helpful and a good refresher link! I also highly recommend the presidential and constitutional podcasts from the Washington post.
Something I used a ton this year for lessons was the reading like a historian curriculum from Stanford-awesome lessons built around primary sources!
Take a look at Understanding and Teaching LGBT History.
I haven't used that particular one myself, but I know one of the series editors as well as authors published elsewhere in the series. I also make regular use of Teaching American Slavery - which goes hand in hand with the SPLC's Teaching Hard History frameworks.
I just started readingCod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World and I think it'a pretty neat. Kind of a niche topic though
Check this book out by Walter Parker - https://www.amazon.com/Social-Studies-Today-Research-Practice/dp/0415992877
Its divided into 5 sections that address some of your questions about social studies - Purpose Matters, Perspective Matters, Subject Matters, Global Matters, and Puzzles
To me the debate is more of social studies skills (developing the skills to find meaning in varied contexts) vs social studies content, and on top of that you still have language objectives
Good luck with school!
An interesting aspect of American history you might find interesting is America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
Eventually, I hope you read this. It's a women's history book. It's written by a journalist, so it's written well. Remember, a lot of girls don't like history so I try to not make the class HIStory. https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Women-Drudges-Helpmates-Heroines-ebook/dp/B000NJL71E/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526234901&sr=8-2&keywords=gail+collins
Also, as a general reader this may be good
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-American-History-Notebook/dp/0761160833
Cartoon History of the United States (Cartoon Guide Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062730983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_a-cYAbVMPS1BD
Check out Dispatches by Michael Herr. It's basically an oral history written as a novel in the journalistic style. Many of the characters in this book went on to be adapted for the screen in Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.
I got this one
THIS
For you: http://www.amazon.com/Colonialism-Postcolonial-Development-Comparative-Perspective/dp/0521133289
I put this on my Goodreads account to look at, maybe of some use to you Writing History: A Guide for Students
Redirect and tell them to read this book, Real Enemies. It is a good book on how actual conspiracy theories have an effect on Democracy. Doesn't talk about the moon landing (I don't think) but does talk about Watergate, 9/11, JFK, Pearl Harbor, Nye Committee, Church Committee and much more in it. Tell them to read it and shut it in your class.
Max Brooks's The Harlem Hellfighters is great... it was kind of an off-the-beaten-path WWI narrative when it came out. (And then Battlefield 1 happened.)
That’s because I spelled it wrong. Here is the book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399589813/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_Br49Ab1YE09W1