UTES Social Studies

The first Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C. headed into the segregated South on May 4, 1961 on a historic journey of nonviolent protest. Fifty years later we have an African American President of the United States. Watching the reaction of my 5th graders as we analyze dozens of primary and secondary sources from this era has been remarkable.  [...]

It is especially gratifying to have classroom social studies discussions, simulations, and debates on the same topics being debated by policy-makers. These past 2 weeks we’ve studied who immigrated to America in the 19th and 20th centuries, and why they left their homelands. We’ve read about and seen newsreel of Ellis Island in the early 1900s, and heard [...]

http://blogs.utexas.edu/ddcecentral/2011/04/27/ut-elementary-students-carry-water-for-africa/