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Socrative Review Games for Social Studies

Passion for Social Studies

The Government Review Games and Sociology Review Games are ready to excite students and get them to think critically. It encourages active participation and promotes critical thinking skills. Sociology Review Games Students love learning about interactions with others! Sociology Review Games $ 7.00

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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

The Hechinger Report

That’s a good start, but to be transformative, nationally, content should be representative and include African American studies; Asian American studies; Latinx studies; Native American Studies; women, gender and sexuality studies; and sociology and other social sciences across the K-12 curriculum.

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Anthropologists and others have long been drawn to the pragmatics and theoretics of hygiene. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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How Lifelong Readers Are Helping Communities Thrive

Digital Promise

1-4, 25-26) While children who visit the library to immerse in their favorite books may not realize it at the time, they’re building the skill of thoughtful reading—the foundation of critical thinking, academic success, and, eventually, a happy and productive adult life. (1, Swan et al. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN.

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”.