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Making Social Studies Fun to Teach | Teacher Testimonial

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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. Studies Weekly has changed my outlook on history, she says. The most valuable resources to her are the lesson plans. They are step-by-step and easy to follow.

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

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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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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

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Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The project was simple for me because it came with the guidance like a rubric, a model and examples to help with lesson planning.

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Lesson 8: How Do You Register to Vote (Grades K-3)

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Learn more about history. Ask the students if they know when and where votes are cast. Review the vocabulary erms “poll,”early voting,” and “absentee voting.” ” Have students work in pairs or small groups to decide what the terms mean and why voters might vote early or absentee. Have a class discussion.