Critical Thinking Geography Middle School 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. These ideas have revived interest in E.D.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could play Fantasy Geography. And so on… . We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.
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ED Surge
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher. For the most part it's been positive.
Moler's Musing
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Why do you think European countries created colonies? This analysis helped students build context and draw connections between geography and colonization strategies. It was great to see them apply their critical thinking skills to a visual source, reinforcing the concept of mercantilism and its connection to colonization.
Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 13, 2015
communities of geography – Connected learning gallery walk – Interrogating our instruction: Are these connected lessons any good? – Getting set up with Twitter and our new hashtag. – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good? How could we make them better?
TCI
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
By integrating activities that require movement and discussion, educators can foster critical thinking and deeper engagement with the material. These methods encourage students to think critically, collaborate with peers, and apply what they’ve learned in practical, often interactive, ways.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 15, 2022
Middle school science teacher Kent Heckenlively has spent part of his time teaching, well, not science. Heckenlively works at Gale Ranch Middle School in San Ramon, California. middle-school science teachers have no scientific background. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.
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