Remove Critical Thinking Remove Lesson Plan Remove Middle School
article thumbnail

How a Middle School Library Promotes Maker Learning for All Students

Digital Promise

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. If that doesn’t sum up middle school, I don’t know what does.

Library 102
article thumbnail

US History Worksheets: Printable and Digital Activities for Kids

Students of History

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. Subscriptions give you access to all the resources and lessons plans you need for US History.

History 52
educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

The Hechinger Report

This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. It’s an open question whether large numbers of teachers will enjoy teaching detailed lesson plans created by curriculum designers. We know it works.

article thumbnail

5 Ways to Incorporate Current Events into Your Social Studies Classroom

Students of History

If you are teaching high school, this likely means that you can broach most news-worthy topics. However, if you're a middle school teacher, there are going to be some things you'll want to steer clear of. 3) Encourage critical thinking. This will also help protect you from accusations of bias.

article thumbnail

How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in US schools

The Hechinger Report

The new standards emphasize scientific inquiry and critical thinking over recitation of facts. And topics that are listed in the standards, like DNA, lend themselves to teaching about vaccines, said Mike Fumagalli, principal at Glenn Westlake Middle School in Illinois and a former high school biology teacher.

article thumbnail

If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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! Washington University in St.

article thumbnail

The district where kids beg to go to summer school

The Hechinger Report

Wilder’s version of personalized learning means no more lesson plans and no homework, two key changes that helped teachers pivot their jobs from dispensing information to mentoring students. percent of Wilder middle school/high school students were proficient in 2015-16, compared to about 37 percent statewide.