4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Jon and I believe very strongly that students in social studies classes should engage with meaningful artifacts created by the people we’re studying. What’s weird is that Question Two pretty much exhausted the consultant’s rubric.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. Explaining what they know increases their confidence and solidifies their knowledge.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Take advantage of your resources like lesson plans, teaching strategies, printables, and more. High-Impact Teaching Strategies There are high-impact teaching strategies recommended throughout your Studies Weekly Teacher Edition. Your Teacher’s Edition is worth its weight in gold!

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

DISCOURSE ABOUT NARRATION: TALKING ABOUT QUESTION ONE We always start our teaching by answering Question One, “What happened?”. The thinking skill associated with Question Two is interpretation, and in high school we’re usually interpreting a primary source document. appeared first on 4QM Teaching.

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Achieve the Core

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It was very early in my teaching career when I realized that standard grading practices were not going to work for me or for my students. I decided to adopt a very simple but different approach to teaching. They were our primary source of relevant information, after all. What did those homework grades even mean?

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

What do artifacts tell us about immigrant experience? When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. Instruments help provide rhythmic structure to the words. But which comes first, the music or the lyrics?

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

What do artifacts tell us about immigrant experience? When I ran into this unexpected barrier, I decided to work backwards; I was going to let the sources guide me instead of the supporting questions determining my research. Instruments help provide rhythmic structure to the words. But which comes first, the music or the lyrics?

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Primary Sources Social Studies Artifacts Museum 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

Students can hear a narration about these individuals, read their biographies, look at artifacts from their lives, and learn about the time period in which they lived and what they accomplished. The idea, he said, is that students will be inspired “to go on a scavenger hunt through the primary source archives to learn more.”.

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4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Four Question Method wasn’t explicitly designed to teach civics, but we think it does a really good job of it. In this post I’ll explain why teaching Question Two, “What were they thinking?” When we do a full Question Two inquiry lab in the classroom we usually work from primary source documents, especially in the upper grades.

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Civics Primary Sources Artifacts Charter School 40

Social Studies Success

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Are you serious about teaching Social Studies skills, but looking for new ways to incorporate them? One of the hardest set of skills to teach are inferencing and drawing conclusions – both require background knowledge, and with drawing conclusions, multiple examples to draw conclusions from.

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