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. They are not available for homeschools.

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Primary Sources American History World History Lesson Plan 89

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.

Archiving 130

Archiving Social Studies Tradition World History 130

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.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Civics Sociology History 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. For Zeng, it was clear that the problems with the way world history was taught at her school bled through into the teaching of U.S.

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History Heritage K-12 American History 107

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In the middle of all this activity, seventh-grader Jacob Higuera sat alone with his laptop, intently typing out a social studies assignment. Jacob Higuera, a seventh-grader at the Innovation Academy, completes a social studies assignment on his laptop while students take part in other lessons in the background.

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Elementary School Tutoring Middle School Tradition 111

4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

So everything else, including history/social studies, gets squeezed out of the school day, especially in the early grades. At 4QM we know from our work with a wide range of schools that in many places social studies is lightly taught or entirely ignored in the primary grades. (We

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Social Studies Middle School Elementary School History 40

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When students are given permission to explore the whole truth without frills, we can discuss solutions in the form of direct nonviolent action and civil disobedience that actually mean something in the real world. Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52