Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

They love playing the game after reading an article online or in the magazine. So the kids were really into that project that we came up with. And it was just again, very easy to use, very engaging. The kids enjoyed it. So everybody’s engaged and we give the thumbs up, thumbs down. This is my fourth year using Social Studies Weekly.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Take advantage of your resources like lesson plans, teaching strategies, printables, and more. I love using these companion printables with my lessons with the option of students using them into their interactive notebooks. Your Teacher’s Edition is worth its weight in gold! What is an Interactive Notebook?

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Artifacts Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies 52

Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Texas Superintendent Quintin Shepherd told the New York Times in a 2023 article, “If kids are not here, they are not forming relationships,” he said. Absent classmates negatively impact all students, regardless of performance level. Student absenteeism is even tied to the rise in emotional and behavioral problems.

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Heritage Primary Sources K-12 Social Studies 52

Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

You balance lessons, planning, creating, preparing, copying, data assessing, meetings, grading, paperwork, responding to emails and phone calls while trying to teach the students in your care. You do this day after day, week after week. It is exhausting physically, mentally, and emotionally. But, still, you try.

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Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Founded in 2009 by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics also offers readings and standards-aligned lesson plans about the Constitution, the three branches of government, media and influence, and many other topics.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

I started by reading the article and lesson aloud to my students. After reading the article we did a number of activities to help students learn more about climate change and environmental activism. I was really impressed with the way my students responded to this article and lesson.

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History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

6th insurrection at the Capitol (I have a lesson for this here ), I came across an article about the only "successful" coup or insurrection in US History. I created this lesson plan on the Wilmington Insurrection. There are 8 sets of primary sources, each with a few short paragraphs explaining them in context.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

It’s pretty fascinating, and there’s an article that we can share with you all later where you can see Du Bois taking on Hoffman. You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources. The most important fact I learned today was that Ida B.

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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52