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5 Activities for Early Finishers in Social Studies Class

Thrive in Grade Five

Ummm, no, that’s just asking for classroom management nightmares. Activity #2 – Allow Students to Read Lesser-Known History Stories The personal stories behind famous leaders and events make history come to life. What should you do with them? Let them hang out and talk?

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Designing Opportunities for Deeper Discussions in World History Classrooms

Digital Promise

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A System for Meeting Absent Students’ Needs (and Everyone Else’s Too)

Cult of Pedagogy

But if you want to stop lecturing, spend more of your time working closely with students, and give your students control over their own learning, digitizing your direct instruction makes it possible to keep all of your students no matter their attendance history engaged at once.

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Making Social Studies Fun to Teach | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

Manda's Story In Manda Rensels 25-year teaching career, she never enjoyed teaching history. Studies Weekly has changed my outlook on history, she says. She recalls not having much of a social studies curriculum: only one set of heavy textbooks with very few resources. Mandas advice to other educators is: Give Studies Weekly a try!

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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It’s as easy as 1-2-3: The importance of contextualised behaviour routines and mentoring support for beginning teachers

Becoming a History Teacher

Behaviour expectations needs to be clearly communicated and taught – this takes time. Similarly, beginning teachers are prone to drawing on their toolkit without reference to the context in which they are working.

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The NCHE Board of Directors Statement Regarding the South Dakota Social Studies Standards

NCHE

The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. Teachers are professionals and experts in their field, and their perspective is critical to the creation of standards, resources, or curriculum that directly impact their classroom instruction.