The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

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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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

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. An inquiry-based education trains students for college, career and civic life — C3! The foundation is so well established.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

Sometimes teachers have to stay after school to complete lesson planning, grading, copying, or other tasks that they might not have been able to finish during the day. Add to cart Civics and American Government Course $ 125.00 Keeping expectations is very important. every weekday. Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

While these issues can seem overwhelming to young students, exploring them within the context of their school can not only make lessons stick, but also encourage students’ sense of civic agency. It gives kids a chance to learn about climate change, but also learn about being positive forces for change for the better,” she said.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.” ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With " Jennifer Kabaker. ” Jason Tomassini.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. Washington University in St.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. maps, household objects, and the like) that can make lessons more engaging and impactful. In addition, the civic summit afforded me professional learning and the opportunity to collaborate with UGRR educational specialists.

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

This one-day lesson plan was developed in Spring 2024 by Dr. Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The election would mark the first of Franklin D. Franklin D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

She uses the New York Times lesson guides, the U.S. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. Doing lesson plans, tracking learning and engagement is not as easy as I thought it would be. Gant, like her younger colleague, works around the clock, learning her subject matter and thinking of how to teach it.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. Tip: When using Jigsaw for the first time, it might be a good idea to walk the students through a trial run and model each step of the process.)

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy February 26, 2024 Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Rather, they say, talking to students about 9/11 and, more broadly, topics related to current events and issues that affect the local and global community just fits the district’s civic-oriented mindset. Last school year, the district piloted a new set of lessons created by the Newseum , a museum in Washington, D.C.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It could be Civics, World, or US History. Then, you can move on to the next unit that is planned out just as clearly. You can literally never have to stress out about lesson planning or pacing again. Here's a sneak peek of what your subscription will look like after you login.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

This is easiest to do in a Civics or American Government classroom. A great resource you can use bringing in different news sources is this lesson plan on Fake News and the Media. If you're looking for engaging lessons you can use right away in your classroom, check out my complete curricula for Civics , World , and US History.

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

Plus there’s lesson plans for every day, flipped classroom videos, Google Slides, primary sources, worksheets, and more for every unit. When you sign up, you get immediate access to all these digital notebook sets.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

2 Examine how consumers are affected by raising and lowering interest rates Civics: PRL.7.C.1 2 Evaluate the roles various government agencies play in maintaining the nation’s economic health Lesson Plan: You can also use this resource to guide your student through a close-reading activity and classroom discussion.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

For a copy of my lesson, follow this link. For a copy of a completed student version of this lesson, follow this link. This is because we need to get rid of it faster so we can be off of lockdown already.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. Each child gets his or her own newspaper, which they love, and then I simply guide and facilitate the week’s topic using the Studies Weekly online component,” she said. Many key topics are overlooked or taught at a lower level, and I do not know why.

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Civics for All of US

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Attendees will receive a digital Voting Rights Photo Book, access to 1963: The Struggle for Civil Rights microsite and a variety of civil rights related activities and lesson plans. This workshop is for grades 5-8 educators. President John F.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

And as citizens of a democracy, we want our students to be able to grapple with history, politics, and social and civic questions actively and critically. How should all of them be incorporated into lesson plans and assessments, and how often? Active thinking in social studies class is good practice for active citizenship.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

DENVER In Zach Kennellys senior civics class, students are building custom chatbots with artificial intelligence. Many teachers, already, are looking for ways to use AI to build lesson plans and improve student feedback, Huh says: We know its coming.

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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.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Between 10 and 15 years ago, Political Science experienced a renewed interest in civic education. Graham and I collaborated, and I reached out to local high school civics teachers in Kansas and western Missouri in hopes of meeting with them and sharing our ideas.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

My students developed a real respect for civic discourse and the skills for entering into it. For example, is it a bad thing that just as these aspiring teachers are learning to write lesson plans, we’re exploring tools that create them — and create them fast?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. Todd Brown, Florida middle school civics teacher who led a pilot virus simulation. We were really amazed by that.” Instead, the team opted for what Brown called “a light-touch approach.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

The teachers participating committed to creating lesson plans — like the shade simulation — that will be made available freely for others to use on platforms including the website SubjectToClimate.org. The sessions received funding through a $25 million National Science Foundation grant to Columbia University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center. .… Working people standing together did that.”. CFT, which represents roughly 120,000 educators, is lobbying for $2.7

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

My former high school students in rural Arkansas now teach at the schools they attended during their childhoods, in the same political conditions of Blackness in which I taught them in my civics class in 2014, as they tried to process the Ferguson, Missouri, police killing of Mike Brown , a man they had never met but who looked like them.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Teachers ask us to clarify the science for their lesson plans. Others host booths filled with fossil casts and brochures at regional cultural festivals, attracting large crowds, interest from civic and government officials, and attention on the national news. Next come the questions.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

I loved what middle school teacher Dylan Huisken told the AP, “Not addressing the attack is to suggest that the civic ideals we teach exist in a vacuum and don’t have any real-world application, that civic knowledge is mere trivia.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

She didn’t change her lesson plans based on the outcome of the election, but half of her students are Latino, some of them immigrants and many of them children of immigrants. This civics lesson was a common one in classrooms Wednesday, whether they were embedded in relevant subjects or squeezed into other parts of the school day.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Skyler Wheeler, a conservative, has a different view on the Pulitzer Prize-winning project, which has been expanded to include reading guides and lesson plans. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. Credit: Chris Tims. But Iowa state Rep.

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