Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Sensory Balls Move a weighted sensory ball back and forth across your desk to prepare the arms for painting, drawing, or holding a book to read. Finger Push-Ups Do finger push-ups or rubber band stretches between fingers to strengthen fine motor skills.

Primary Sources 89

Primary Sources American History World History Lesson Plan 89

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E.

History 105

History Teaching Sociology Oral History 105

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. Zeng and her friends never really ventured outside their Asian American bubble.

History 109

History Heritage K-12 American History 109

Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our American History worksheets all can be downloaded as easy-to-use PDF files for easy printing and all include editable Google Docs versions which can be shared online with students through Google Classroom. Each curriculum includes hundreds of activities you can immediately implement into your classes!

History 52

History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 52

4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

We did some work for a public school in an urban district that was having trouble when their fifth graders were reading a book set in the Great Depression and literally had no idea about the context for the story.) We describe all this in detail in our book , and we’ve written extensively about the method and its application in our blog.

Social Studies 40

Social Studies Middle School Elementary School History 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That year, books by two Black women authors were removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum, and one unit of English instruction, “Dreams and Oppressions,” was changed to remove the word oppressions from its title, reframing the course to focus on personal obstacles rather than systemic discrimination. Then there was the curriculum.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143