4QM Teaching

MARCH 17, 2025

So then we decided we should write a book to explain 4QM thinking and planning processes. We figured teachers would read the book, and then theyd use its sage guidance to implement the method. We did publish a book, and every now and then we hear from a teacher (like Ryan from Spokane!) History course that covers 1492-1877.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Lesson Plan Private School 40

Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

The video made me laugh and think about how much the teacher of those students must have inspired a love of history! So, the history meme project was born in my classroom. What are my rules for making history memes? It’s seriously easy to make history memes. Why do I ask my students to create history memes?

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History Primary Sources Social Studies Library 130

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

While the concept of HQIM has been established and embraced in other core academic disciplines, applying this concept to social studies has been more complex. Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another.

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Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 114

Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we brought history to life with engaging EduProtocols that helped students dive deep into the Early Republic and key moments like the Whiskey Rebellion. Students brainstormed archetypes in their favorite movies, TV shows, or books and discussed how every character fits an archetype (e.g.,

Government 131

Government Social Studies Leadership History 131

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

History class, students learned about the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and had to determine if Jackson was a highly successful president or a corrupt leader. Students in Mr. Tusa’s history class investigated the history of Europe through painting (1500-1800). History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S.

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Library History Cultures Educational Technology 274

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

They want to see themselves and their cultures reflected in the books we read, and they don’t want token representation. As a Colorado secondary school history teacher and former English teacher, I believe, and research shows, that student achievement improves when learners are personally engaged.

History 138

History World Religions Inclusive Curriculum Heritage 138

HistoryRewriter

JANUARY 17, 2024

Adam Moler and I will kick off the second season of The Social Studies Show on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 6 PT/9 ET. The Archetype Foursquare EduProtocol (Chapter 13) helps students at all levels demonstrate that they can transfer their learning from one subject (English) to another (History). Was it George P.

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Social Studies Elementary School History Research 208

Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Donate Today Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking the very heart of the Zinn Education Project — teaching people’s history in classrooms across the country. Officials in at least 44 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events.

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History Teaching Civics Middle School 98

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.

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Primary Sources American History World History Lesson Plan 89

History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

The Stanford History Education Group has been around since 2002. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.

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Social Studies History Education History Primary Sources 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 11, 2025

The first 100 teacher attendees to register and attend will receive a free copy of one of the books listed above. Register Robert Cohen is professor of History and Social Studies in New York Universitys Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is an affiliated member of NYUs History Department.

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Professional Development Social Studies History Humanities 59

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I’ll never forget when my 5th-grade teacher had our class reenact a scene from the book "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry". I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. Legislators, history activists and those who want to project a positive view of the U.S. Learning the sordid details of U.S.

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History Museum Social Studies Economics 111

Teaching American History

APRIL 8, 2025

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. Book that substitute, and then make sure you come!

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Primary Sources American History Social Studies History 52

Social Studies Success

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The first place you have to start is with questions about content – What is your history standard? In my experience, I love using lap books to tie content together. Students complete a section of their lap book in a station, then an activity to process the information. What are you try to teach? Let me know how it goes!

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Social Studies Teaching History 52

Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2024

Here are some books, documentaries, websites, and social media accounts to help you teach Black history in all its complexity.

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History Education Teaching 107

Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Secondary Social Studies Interventionist As any good teacher does, I often eavesdrop. During my fourteen years of eavesdropping, I’ve heard social studies teachers lament that they are “not reading teachers”. Why is background knowledge important in social studies? By Kydra Hubbard, Ed.

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Social Studies Geography Advocacy Leadership 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

I let kids choose their books. Kids slipped their phones between the pages of the books they selected. There is evidence that teaching such skills has some benefit, but what students really need in order to read with understanding is knowledge about history, geography, science, music, the arts and the world more broadly.

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Teaching Geography History Library 144

Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Ginny Boles needed to build her content knowledge in American history. Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government. Next, her father called.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources American History Library Government 52

Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

This has generated some of the most challenging discussions I’ve seen in my class. — Lena Amick, social studies teacher, Baltimore This widely used lesson was revised last year in collaboration with Taíno community members. In appreciation for your feedback , we’ll send you a people’s history book.

History 143

History Social Studies Humanities Cultures 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Here are the 17 words from Florida’s new social studies guidelines that lit a fire under much of America, on every side of the debate: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

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History K-12 Social Studies Education Policy 95

Rockin Resources - Social Studies

MARCH 16, 2021

“The work of today is the history of tomorrow and we are its makers.” With the help of her sister, The post Amazing Books and Collections for Women’s History appeared first on Rockin Resources. Juliette Gordon Low ——– ‘No’ was a word Amelia Earhart wouldn’t accept.

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History Social Studies Teaching 52

Social Studies Success

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

If you are like me, you are always looking for new and exciting ways to engage your students in Social Studies. Students are having in depth conversations about their content and that is always a win in my book! I try at least one new strategy a year to expand my own teaching craft. You can find them here.

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Social Studies Cultures Teaching History 52

Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2015

I’ve written Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology to support English, history/social studies, and science teachers as they shift to the new Standards using technology. Here are just a few of the creative ideas included in this book: Using Instagram for research and narrative writing.

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Teaching EdTech Social Studies History 137

HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. The books are archived here.

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Archiving Social Studies Tradition World History 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to. Still, my love of history had an outlet in school. Social studies was the class I excelled in because it felt most meaningful.

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Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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History Heritage K-12 American History 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events.

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K-12 Civics Social Studies Geography 126

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.” Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education Some changes in our political system have produced results no one intended. Professor Joseph Postell told the history of our political party system.

Humanities 52

Humanities Teaching American History Government 52

Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes.

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Social Studies Civics History Sociology 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.

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History Social Studies Museum Civics 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 16, 2023

Job Skills in History Classes The ideas previously described work great in a careers class, but what if you teach history, social studies, or even language arts instead? The post Teaching Job Skills in Middle School appeared first on Mr and Mrs Social Studies.

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Middle School Teaching Social Justice Social Studies 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. In the read aloud for the book “Mr.

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Teaching Elementary School Social Justice American History 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms. The mom looked unconvinced.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109