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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. of a standard deviation higher, on average.

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Vocabulary Lesson Plan

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary Lesson Plan Sept. 28, 2020 • Studies Weekly Grades: K-8 Why: (Purpose) Vocabulary instruction aligns with deep learning by helping students make connections between words and construct meaningful knowledge.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Regular reading class was untouched in the experiment.

Learning Science

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How one state is incorporating data science in every subject – even art

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, some of California’s public universities allowed applicants to skip Algebra II and substitute data science. With the rise of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT that rely on data sets, students also need to understand how to use AI in a responsible way, he added.

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Using Games Effectively in the Classroom

TCI

JANUARY 21, 2025

While games cannot replace classroom instruction, they can enhance learning when intentionally integrated into a lesson plan. A 2021 study highlighted a positive relationship between gamified learning and student motivation from 2015 to 2020.

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Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will identify the three branches of the federal government. Lesson Plan: All Grades: Ask the students if they know what the U.S. Students will identify the officials who lead the three branches. is governed. is governed.

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Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office Sept. 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will learn the qualifications for people running for office. Lesson Plan: Explain to the students that they are going to act like the Founding Fathers. natural-born citizen: a person who was a U.S.

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Lesson 4: Voting and Elections (Grades 4-5)

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: Voting and Elections (Grades 4-5) Sept. 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Weekly Summary: The constitution sets out very few absolute qualifications to run for national office, yet the unofficial qualities of candidates often play a much larger role in who actually gets elected.

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The Nationwide Reading Struggle

Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

Many kindergarten and first-grade students missed out on crucial language learning during 2020 and 2021. Emily Toronto, a 5th-grade teacher at Bonneville Elementary in Utah, reported that her lower-level reading students also struggle in social studies and science. This is where Studies Weekly can help.

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Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy February 26, 2024 Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The shift came to the school ahead of a statewide deadline to have proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for all of Vermont’s 2020 high school graduates. Most schools are on track to have new graduation requirement systems in place by 2020, but on-the-ground changes look different from district to district.

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Phenomena-based Science Instruction Creates Equitable Learning Environments

Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“Centering science lessons on phenomena that are universal — like light — or deeply rooted in a region’s culture or location … can make science more relevant and interesting for students. Constructing lesson plans around the 5Es improves instruction and allows student-driven learning. What causes that to happen?’”

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., In October 2020, while networking with Chris Bacon (former UGRR Director) and Mike Broccolo (former educational specialist), we developed a mini-service learning project.

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Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? (Grades K-3)

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Student Expectations: Students will recognize the positive qualities of good leaders. Lesson Plan: 1. Grades K-3) Sept. Students will understand the election process in the United States.

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Flipgrid and Studies Weekly

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Flipgrid and Studies Weekly Oct. 9, 2020 • Studies Weekly When studying a topic in Studies Weekly, you may want some discussion or even debate among your students. First, you add a group: for example, a Social Studies group to use for Studies Weekly topics.

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Lesson 5: Electing Congress and the President (Grades 4-5)

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lesson 5: Electing Congress and the President (Grades 4-5) Oct. 7, 2020 • Studies Weekly Objective for the Lesson: This lesson will examine how members of Congress and the president are elected and ask students to consider both the historical reasons for the electoral college and its modern implications.

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Jigsaw Strategy

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. Tip: When using Jigsaw for the first time, it might be a good idea to walk the students through a trial run and model each step of the process.)

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What Does the End of ESSER Funding Mean?

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. To learn more about purchasing Studies Weekly curriculum with ESSER III funds, contact your states rep.

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Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Education in the United States has changed since the 2020 pandemic and still faces many lingering challenges due to the shutdown. Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula.

Heritage

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

See how Studies Weekly Health & Wellness can give you the results you need with student absenteeism and other student behaviors at studiesweekly.com/health. Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. References CASEL. Transformative SEL: Impacts on School Climate, Classroom Practice, and Student Learning.”

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products. 2, 2020, for AIP.org. Sources: Ashley Marranzino, “Bertha Parker, the Trailblazing First Indigenous North American Archaeologist, Taught Herself How to Excavate a Site,” June 6, 2019 for massivescience.com.

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. “I honestly cannot imagine teaching social studies without providing each student with a copy of their student publication.” I nternational Journal of Educational Research , 58 , 61–68.

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What is Universal Pre-K?

Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

2020, September 7). Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts What is Universal Pre-K? Barnett, W.

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One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects – even PE

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Still, only 20 states have adopted the standards. Related: Are we ready?

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Teaching Truths: Educators Speak on Justice and Liberation in the Classroom

Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 24, 2024

history, leading movements that have reshaped the nation’s social and political landscape. The 2020 uprising for Black lives was yet another powerful demonstration of this legacy, with young activists at the forefront, demanding justice and an end to systemic racism. Rachel is using a pseudonym due to privacy and safety concerns.)

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Lesson 12: Election and Electoral College (Grades K-3)

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lesson 12: Election and Electoral College (Grades K-3) Oct. 12, 2020 • Studies Weekly Background Knowledge for Teachers: In the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers didn’t want a direct election for the new president and vice president. At the time, many people lived in distant rural areas.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. In August 2020, the federal court issued a mixed decision. Teachers used no lesson plans, in any subject, and the school had no librarian.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I hear echoes of this argument when, for instance, Trump blamed Howard Zinn’s writing for inciting the riots during the 2020 uprising. And of course, history and social studies teachers. I will try to make lesson plans incorporating the history of criminalization and abolitionist ideas into K–5 Art.

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Chris Tims, a social studies teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, says he won’t stop teaching the 1619 Project, despite political pressure. Skyler Wheeler, a conservative, has a different view on the Pulitzer Prize-winning project, which has been expanded to include reading guides and lesson plans. and African American history.

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Lesson 11: Our National Election (K-3)

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lesson 11: Our National Election (K-3) Oct. 12, 2020 • Studies Weekly Background Knowledge for Teachers: Political parties are not unique to America. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? Invite students to place their votes on the live voting site.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

Vocabulary Lesson Plan

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

How one state is incorporating data science in every subject – even art

Using Games Effectively in the Classroom

Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office

Lesson 4: Voting and Elections (Grades 4-5)

The Nationwide Reading Struggle

Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy

Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

Phenomena-based Science Instruction Creates Equitable Learning Environments

Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? (Grades K-3)

Flipgrid and Studies Weekly

Lesson 5: Electing Congress and the President (Grades 4-5)

Jigsaw Strategy

What Does the End of ESSER Funding Mean?

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

What is Universal Pre-K?

One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects – even PE

Teaching Truths: Educators Speak on Justice and Liberation in the Classroom

Lesson 12: Election and Electoral College (Grades K-3)

How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

Lesson 11: Our National Election (K-3)

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