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

TCI

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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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

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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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

They noted the menu of research reports, graphics and videos, and the “About” page describing the site as a project of a “nonprofit research organization” called the Employment Policies Institute. They got duped.”. Or, as one student put it, loudly, “fudge nuggets!”. This isn’t just a problem with kids,” said Wineburg.

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