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Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies May 2, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER At first glance, social studies and music might seem like two separate subjects, but they can come together harmoniously to make learning more engaging and memorable. Music is everywhere!

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. For example, most people over 30 can remember where they were on Sept.

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New Tools for Building Social Studies Skills and Assigning and Grading Updates

TCI

For Spring 2025, were excited to introduce new features based on your feedback. These updates will help you teach key social studies skills, streamline assigning and grading, and improve administrative tasks. The post New Tools for Building Social Studies Skills and Assigning and Grading Updates appeared first on TCI.

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EduProtocols & Gifted Students

HistoryRewriter

On Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 9 pm ET/6PT Adam and I welcome Kelly Bellar to The Social Studies Show to talk about using EduProtocols with Gifted Students. Kelly is a Texas Social Studies Instructional Specialist who differentiates for gifted learners with EduProtocols.

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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first. Weve all been there.

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These Classes Re-Lit My Fire

Zinn Education Project

Tara Micham, social studies teacher, Kansas City, Kansas Tara Micham is one of thousands of teachers learning the history missing from their own education in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes. And join us for one or more sessions in 2025. We need your help to continue to offer these classes for free.

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OPINION: During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union

The Hechinger Report

This momentum has carried forth into 2025, with bills impacting civic education filed in many states. And right now, elementary schools spend very little time teaching social studies, despite its demonstrated literacy benefits and record of improving civics knowledge, skills and dispositions. Continued progress is necessary.

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