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.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. Between the students, administrators, parents, and the community, social studies teachers are feeling pressure from all directions. Another trend in social studies education is the emphasis on project-based learning.

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

These activities include: Sourcing documents Drag & drop timelines Analyzing primary and secondary sources Interpreting and inserting images Notetaking Comparing and contrasting topics 4. Engaging Activities - All of the same great activities from the old digital notebooks are back with some awesome updates to them as well.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., I was first introduced to UGRR at the SUNY Buffalo State College Civic Summit when their educational specialists presented “Lessons from the Field: The Legal Geography of Slavery.”

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s a natural fit for a school community whose mission includes cultivating and cherishing “an environment that supports the academic, social-emotional, creative and civic learning” of all students. After studying the artwork of pop artist Andy Warhol, fifth and sixth grade students made artwork inspired by his creations.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But that’s not creating any real meaning for them, especially if your high school Civics students are somewhat familiar with them already. Below is my dig-deeper lesson sequence for teaching the different types of government in my on-level Civics class. So, let’s do better and create fun and engaging of this standard.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Students can also explore biographical information for several individuals whose ideas influenced the nation’s founding documents. Connections to Arkansas Social Studies Standards: Civics: CPI.1.C.3 1 Analyze historical documents and events that set the ideological foundations for the U.S. Constitution PD.4.C.3

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

They were going to connect those arguments to today’s debate over social distancing and closing orders. I was very excited to have them reflect on these documents and then create letters to send to policy makers advising them on the situation. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link. Follow Two Simple Rules.”

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This would allow both the “expert groups” and the “Jigsaw groups” to document and share their learning. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. In this setting, providing the students with a teacher-created digital template or collaboration page would be ideal.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Some of my favorite worksheets to use in American History include: Germantown Quaker Anti-Slavery Petition Document Analysis Crevecoeur's "What is an American?" In addition to the US History curriculum , there are also similar curricula available for World History and American Government / Civics.

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ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

Using this series of activities, social studies teachers can guide their students through key ideas presented in Smith’s Wealth of Nations. 2 Evaluate the impact of advancements in technology, investments in capital goods, and investments in human capital on economic growth and standards of living Civics: PD.4.C.1

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Joining social studies teacher groups on Facebook, she built her own professional learning community (PLC). “I The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. Teaching America’s story with thoroughness, but without bias, is simpler with primary documents.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. For project-based civic learning, there’s the web-based “Civic Action Project” (CAP) created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation. “The

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As we reboot Doing Social Studies, we’d love to introduce you to this month’s author, Nathan McAlister. Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. My goal, for this blog post is twofold. Let’s get started.

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Diane Ravitch

JULY 16, 2024

Now Walters has appointed a list of rightwing luminaries to rewrite the state’s social studies curriculum. Hagerty explained that Barton collected 100,000 documents and, “He says they prove that the Founding Fathers were deeply religious men who built America on Christian ideas — something you never learn in school.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Chris Tims, a social studies teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, says he won’t stop teaching the 1619 Project, despite political pressure. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. Some call this teaching conflict — now more than a century old — the “ social studies wars.”.

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