Sweeney's Guide | Learning to Teach Social Studies

Here at Sweeney's Guide I want to improve access to educational resources for high school social studies teachers. It is intended to be a home for all of us trying to figure out this whole teaching thing. As a student teacher I'm discovering lots of cool resources from throughout the web, and your contributions by commenting on ways you have found interesting classroom uses for these and other resources will make Sweeney's Guide better for all of our users!

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Finishing the Dream

In honor of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr's birthday this week, I wanted to share the Finishing the Dream archive, which is a great resource on teaching civil rights. It has a variety of primary and secondary source videos (importantly they are NOT on youtube but rather it's hosted by NBC, so you should be able to access them from the schools):

This actually part of the much larger resource hosted by NBC called NBC Learn, which has a vast archive of educational and historical video for use by teachers and students: