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History Explorer Podcast: Road Trip Edition

History Explorer Podcast: Road Trip Edition

Grade Range: 6-12
Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Worksheets
Duration: 38 minutes
Date Posted: 6/14/2012

Special summer edition: Going on a road trip? Along the way, listen to this special edition of the History Explorer podcast series. It’s a compilation of some newer and older podcasts around the theme of perhaps the most common car ride entertainment—music.


National Standards

United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)

Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)

4: The struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties
 

Historical Thinking Standards (Grades 5-12)

Historical Thinking Standard 3: Historical Analysis and Interpretation

3A: Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas.
 
3B: Consider multiple perspectives.
 
3C: Analyze cause-and-effect relationships.
 
3D: Draw comparisons across eras and regions in order to define enduring issues.
 
3E: Distinguish between unsupported expressions of opinion and informed hypotheses grounded in historical evidence.
 
3F: Compare competing historical narratives.
 
3G: Challenge arguments of historical inevitability.
 
3H: Hold interpretations of history as tentative.
 
3I: Evaluate major debates among historians.
 
3J: Hypothesize the influence of the past.
 

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Keywords

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