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Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies

Studies Weekly

It is deeply rooted in our cultures, histories, geographies, and values. DOWNLOAD RESOURCE Using Music to Teach Geography Music is geographically rooted. Using Music to Teach Patriotism and Civics Music has long been a tool for civic engagement from campaign songs to anthems to patriotic ballads. Music is everywhere!

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. The researchers controlled for students’ socio-economic status, race, home language and many other other student and school characteristics.

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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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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

The Hechinger Report

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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

ED Surge

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. An inquiry-based education trains students for college, career and civic life — C3! The foundation is so well established. Who can argue with inquiry?

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OPINION: Well-intentioned New York City pre-K is falling short of noble goals

The Hechinger Report

Neither geography nor demographics rule out access to potent pre-K. The mash-up between an invisible virus and palpable civic anguish underscores the racialized order that fractures key institutions in America, especially schools. They must be able to get down to the child’s level and explain things.”.

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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… .