Social Studies Success

JANUARY 18, 2023

Manipulatives can be an exciting tool to add to your teacher toolbox for Social Studies, they provide you many opportunities to both teach and practice Social Studies skills and content. Manipulatives for Instruction Find or create tangible artifacts for students to explore. Can you categorize the artifacts?

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

For example, an AR app can create interactive 3D models of historical artifacts or scientific specimens that students can learn from and explore. The McGraw Hill program is releasing a social studies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas. What does AR look like in the humanities?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Academics: Children should learn fundamental academic skills in reading, math, science and social studies through discovery and creative activities. Artifacts” of authentic learning, such a child art, science projects and other evidence of child-directed learning. What you can see: Children creating and explaining patterns.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 4, 2024

We recently heard from an elementary teacher who admitted to skimping on social studies instruction in her classroom. But social studies in the early grades? Elementary schools don’t devote a lot of time to social studies, and there are fewer resources available. This is a common problem. Not so much.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

And it wasn't just happening in one class, but it was like happening in English, happening in social studies, happening in science. And is there some artifact of student learning that I could look at to see whether or not I'm making progress?’ They were describing these new practices of revision and collaborative writing.

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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. As students physically create artifacts, they visibly represent their thinking, understanding, and skills.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 • by Debbie Bagley I love the magazine and newspaper style of Studies Weekly, because with its engaging primary and secondary sources, and activities you can do right on the publication, it allows for so much more than just simply reading from a textbook – which tends to take the life out of any subject.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class. I noticed something strange, however.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Examples of Student Learning Artifacts created with Studies Weekly printed publications: I hope you find these resources helpful. We want your experience teaching with your Studies Weekly publications to be positive, successful, and joyful. The magazines can be folded, cut, glued, and made into assessment projects.

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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., They provide educators with access to historical records, narratives of interesting people in the community, and artifacts (e.g., Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. They are not available for homeschools.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 8, 2024

Warmly, Debbie Learn more about Studies Weekly Teacher Advocate Debbie Bagley here.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and social studies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both. In the earlier grades we are often looking at a pattern of behavior or an artifact.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Create a Student Artifact Students can write about a favorite thing they learned or create a project about their learning, such as: a pop-up book, display tray, poster, or puppet to share with class. Encourage students to cut out pictures and words from their student edition for use in their creative artifacts of knowledge.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

C3 Teachers followed six secondary and middle level preservice teachers at the University of Kentucky as they designed inquiries for their social studies methods class. Social studies affords endless possibilities for inquiry. In the world of social studies, there are a plethora of topics to cover.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

C3 Teachers followed six secondary and middle level preservice teachers at the University of Kentucky as they designed inquiries for their social studies methods class. Social studies affords endless possibilities for inquiry. In the world of social studies, there are a plethora of topics to cover.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. 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. Subscribe today!

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 23, 2023

workshop: contextualize and identify meaningful artifacts, then say what the creators of those artifacts were thinking when they created them. The lesson I’ve described provided students with no information at all about audience response to the artifacts students were asked to interpret. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

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TCI

MARCH 6, 2025

Choosing the right curriculum for middle school social studies can be overwhelming. “The students liked being able to basically hold artifacts in their hands. ” Key Features of TCIs Social Studies Curriculum So, what makes TCIs social studies curriculum stand out? .”

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Social Studies Success

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Are you serious about teaching Social Studies skills, but looking for new ways to incorporate them? It is exactly what it sounds like…students examine artifacts and not only infer information from the artifact, but also draw conclusions from a multitude of examples. What battle are these artifacts referencing?

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