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How to Choose High-Quality Social Studies Instructional Materials for Your District

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This blog offers a practical guide for district administrators on selecting and implementing HQIM in social studies, detailing how these materials enhance student achievement, promote critical thinking, and prepare students for active civic participation. Assessment Tools: Many curricula include formative and summative assessment options.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. While watching TV in her free time, Joffe was struck by another idea: a ‘Netflix of online learning’ that could recommend digital resources to users. “I

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Students of History Subscription Preview

Students of History

It could be Civics, World, or US History. You can see that each lesson includes a number of downloadable resources in addition to the lesson itself. Within the lessons are links to live videos, Google Docs, digital resources , and helpful websites. You get immediate access to all of them immediately after signing up.

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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

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For US History, that can be reading (or even listening to) this short article on the stock market crash of 1929 and then organizing the important parts of the article into their interactive notebook: This allows students to be hands on with their learning and easily combine a digital resource with a paper/pencil activity.

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

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High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. 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.

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. In January, they plan to launch a massive online open course (aka a MOOC) called Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens.

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