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Experience the World with the Latest Edition of Geography Alive!

TCI

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. history, European history, human geography, AP government. For the most part it's been positive.

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19 Ideas for Setting Up Your Social Studies Classroom

Let's Cultivate Greatness

I also love my 3D relief United States map , which is really helpful in explaining events and helping my students study for their semester-long US geography test series. Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes.

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OPINION: How can teachers help students grapple with the chaos surrounding us?

The Hechinger Report

history, civics and geography (with history scores much lower than in science) should disabuse us of that notion. While I share their nostalgia for a time in the history of public education when that might have been true, the damning performance by the nation’s 12th graders in U.S.

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Jigsaw Strategy

Studies Weekly

Jigsaw Strategy Oct.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could play Fantasy Geography. And so on… .