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. I also see my students’ hands go up when we study world religions, and they can share a story from home. Emily Muellenberg is a social studies teacher at Grandview High School in Aurora, Colorado.

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History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

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. Both the book and SHEG outlined a social studies instructional concept, that at the time, was pretty revolutionary.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

How to Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month You may feel like you don’t have time to teach students about Asian Pacific heritage, but there are many fun ways to integrate this annual celebration with ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Well-Being.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

It works with any other review book or resources as students work on AP Government review. Since teachers are so busy, it includes an answer key for easy planning. Add to cart The post AP Government Review appeared first on Passion for Social Studies. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

We need to read texts by Asian American authors in English classes and learn about Asian American history and community leaders in social studies classes. We need books other than the The Joy Luck Club and history beyond the Chinese Exclusion Act. This raises a necessary question: Who is going to teach these classes?

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While teaching, you can just point to the picture or sign that illustrates your class rules, instead of stopping your lesson to correct their behavior. Look for books on behaviors you want students to learn and read them to your class. Some children understand behavioral concepts better when explained through stories.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 23, 2024

My day begins with teaching two 65-minute social studies periods, followed by a plan period, co-teaching a reading workshop with an ELA teacher, and ending the day with two more 65-minute social studies classes. Thursday I began class with a Literacy Skills Entry exam from our McGraw Hill book.

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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. Robert Lake, social studies teacher at North Plainfield High School. dedicated to news and journalism; the lessons were developed with the support of the For Action Initiative.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The writing and photos would be bound into a book and sold to parents and others, with proceeds donated to a local nonprofit helping new immigrants. The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. McIntosh asked, prompting students to draw lessons from the comic books in front of them.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“There are incredibly wonderful web-based programs available – Studies Weekly being my favorite – but the number of sites that districts and schools want a teacher to examine, consider and use becomes, in my opinion, counter-productive due to the amount of time it takes to look into and accommodate them all.”

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

One school in Connecticut reported that many of their teachers had to start the 2022 school year with the basics — showing students how to hold a book, or reviewing the ABCs and letter sounds, according to a 2022 New York Times article by Dana Goldstein. This is where Studies Weekly can help. Get a Studies Weekly free trial today!

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

JUNE 28, 2017

In this post: Pacing Guides Fourth Grade Morning Work Reading Writing Guided Math & Workshops Social Studies & Science Classroom Management Top Ten Resources Pacing Guides It’s hard to start the year without a plan, so you can download example fourth grade pacing guides here.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

Take some time for yourself to be outdoors, read that book you have been waiting to pick up, or catch up on some much-needed sleep. New Life Skills Curriculum If you would like additional ideas to help you with your students’ well-being or your own, take a look at Studies Weekly’s Health and Wellness curriculum.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Saun also wrote the book My Mother India , where he criticized British imperialism in India and narrated his experiences at his homeland. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The lesson plan provides examples that you can discuss with students to show them how to track income and expenses as well as how to create short and long terms savings plans. Educators receive free resources like books, curriculum guides, and activity kits at all ACRE professional development events.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To the end of his life, Du Bois never stopped his research, and he published dozens more books, essays, and articles on his own in pursuit of freedom. Learn how Studies Weekly Social Studies can help teach students about history’s humanitarians.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Constructing lesson plans around the 5Es improves instruction and allows student-driven learning. Using an explore-before-explain sequence helps teachers find a focus for curriculum planning and ensures that students engage in types of experiences advocated by the NGSS. What causes that to happen?’” The teachers happily obliged.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. Discuss ways to help the hen make her bread, like problem-solving as groups to design something to help carry the wheat to the mill Hands-on Exploration Activities with Sensory Tubs: Test the experiment: will a pumpkin sink or float?

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 6, 2024

I recently read a wonderful book on cognitive research about how students learn and remember information. So, I want to share some practical ideas Kate Jones shares in her book, Retrieval Practice: A Guide for Primary Teachers and Leaders, that can help bridge the gap between research and work in the classroom. Really truly!

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Engaging Learning Materials Learning Resources Stock the classroom with books, games, and learning materials that cater to different interests and reading levels. 15, 2024 and tell us what you love most about Studies Weekly to be entered into a raffle for a $100 Amazon Gift Card to help you get ready for the school year!

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Teachers of history and social studies on all grade levels know they want students to do more than just memorize facts; they want students to practice thinking about history as well. And as citizens of a democracy, we want our students to be able to grapple with history, politics, and social and civic questions actively and critically.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. Mayo Clinic Health System. Delgado, P.,

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

” She wrote a book on her experiences, titled, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear which discusses this desire to combine Navajo healing philosophies with western medicine. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Science of Reading: Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Aug 26, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Reading has the wondrous power to transport us across time and space. The stories and characters we meet within the pages of books teach us about our world, ourselves, and others. Onset Rime Strategies — PreK/Kindergarten.

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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. Keep the anchor charts on display for students to refer to and use. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Cari Gallagher reads a book about Hurricane Sandy to her third graders at Lawrenceville Elementary School.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. I had read Clint Smith’s book last year and was blown away by how the history is handled at many of the highlighted locations and his extreme attention to detail. This lesson helped provide both and more.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences. This variety makes it challenging to create materials that are universally recognized as high quality across all aspects of social studies.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. A number of states are fiercely battling over curriculum standards, and not just in history and social studies. The fusion of politics and education is hardly unusual.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Truman, the book declares, refused to let organized labor “cripple the nation.”. Steve Grossman, a social studies teacher at Niles West and the DePaul center’s associate director, said that few high schoolers know anything about unions before the simulation. But the textbooks mostly minimize or ignore the role of unions.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. Teachers used no lesson plans, in any subject, and the school had no librarian.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. She’s really the first person, and she publishes a book called Southern Horrors. Du Bois’s work on Reconstruction. The second is W.

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