Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary Lesson Plan Sept. What: (Description of the Strategy) Vocabulary instruction can be facilitated in a variety of ways but is most effective when it provides both definitional and contextual information, involves students in deeper processing, and gives students multiple exposures to the words they are learning.

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development History 52

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. But a flurry of other bills and laws restricting what educators can teach—or even say—about history, literature, race, sexuality and other topics are alive and well. Yes, I’m deviating from my lesson plans.

Lesson Plan 121

Lesson Plan K-12 History Professional Development 121

ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

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. Can students apply the facts, definitions and key concepts they’ve learned to a project? Do students know how to think of their feet?

High School 141

High School Museum Education History 141

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Considering this day was 9/11, I had a 9/11 lesson planned using Storyfile. To begin my lesson on 9/11, I showed a news clip about a survivor from that day. It’s a way to preserve history and create an interactive experience with historical figures.

Lesson Plan 130

Lesson Plan Social Studies History Teaching 130

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

While some years involve quieter elections, this is definitely not one of them. So, students must have lessons that focus on teaching the election. Teaching the election is an essential part of any history class. Tuesday, November 5th is quickly approaching! So, students will see more political ads and commercials than ever.

Teaching 130

Teaching Government Social Studies High School 130

Students of History

JUNE 5, 2023

Around May of each school year, I start thinking about US History EOC review activities to get my students ready for their state assessment. Students are then more likely to retain the massive amount of content you cover in a year of US History. I love going back to my US History Review Packets for each unit in the curriculum.

History 52

History Primary Sources Lesson Plan Critical Thinking 52

Moler's Musing

AUGUST 23, 2024

I was ready to move into content and the question of “Why do we study history?” For my original lesson on “Why do we study history?” ” Under the “define” heading, I had AI create a sentence that could be used to help students use context clues to create a definition.

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Artifacts History Social Studies Lesson Plan 100

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Trying to balance lesson planning, teaching, and taking care of my own well-being hasn’t been easy, but I’m doing my best to carve out moments for myself to stay sane. Still, Tuesday’s lesson reminded me that, despite all the challenges, we’re making progress—one step at a time. I don’t have a definitive answer yet.

Government 126

Government Teaching Lesson Plan Economics 126

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary and Definitions: constitution: the document that sets up a system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, etc., Lesson Plan: All Grades: Ask the students if they know what the U.S. is governed.

Government 52

Government Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development 52

Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

I am one of the lucky teachers who did not have to figure out how to change all of my lesson plans and adapt to online teaching overnight, because I have been teaching at a virtual school for a couple of years now. History classes from this amazing location in Costa Rica in February 2019! I taught my U.S.

Teaching 52

Teaching Lesson Plan Museum History 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary and Definitions: qualification: a circumstance or condition required by law or custom for getting, having, or exercising a right, holding an office, etc. Vocabulary and Definitions: qualification: a circumstance or condition required by law or custom for getting, having, or exercising a right, holding an office, etc.

Lesson Plan 52

Lesson Plan Social Studies Government Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other. “I

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Clarify misconceptions, and provide definitions to new terms. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy Oct. How: (How to set up the Strategy) Select 8-10 terms from a unit of study. Discuss what students know about the terms.

Lesson Plan 52

Lesson Plan Professional Development Geography Civics 52

Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

I was also fortunate to find colleagues and peers who challenged me to try new things that, from the outside, had nothing to do with traditional librarianship or my background in English and history. If you had asked me early on if I was a “maker,” I would’ve said no, especially when I was a student in school.

Library 110

Library Middle School Tradition Lesson Plan 110

Leah Cleary

JULY 9, 2023

I just had to copy and paste their definitions. Here are sample commands: Command: DOK Level 1 Explanation + Generate 3 DOK Level 1 Multiple Choice Questions appropriate for sophomore World History students studying Classical Greece. Here are sample commands: Command: Generate two 50-minute lesson plans for this standard: SSWH14.A,

Psychology 52

Psychology World History Lesson Plan History 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

history, in 1801 and 1825. Lesson Plan: Review vocabulary words with the students and place the words/definitions on the word wall. When this happens, each state gets one vote. The representatives from each state have to decide together which candidate will get the state’s vote. This has only happened twice in U.S.

K-12 52

K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School Government 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson Plan: 1. Before the lesson, print enough copies of the ballot found in related media for the class and create a simple ballot box for the students to put their completed ballots into. (Grades K-3) Sept. 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Student Expectations: Students will recognize the positive qualities of good leaders.

Lesson Plan 52

Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development Government 52

4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Teachers of history and social studies on all grade levels know they want students to do more than just memorize facts; they want students to practice thinking about history as well. Humans remember what we think about, so actually engaging intellectually with history will help students to remember more of it.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources Social Studies Civics History 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts. “My

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 85

Letters and Ink Blog

JULY 26, 2022

It also means that I’m not writing lesson plans on Sunday afternoons, and when I was out for a week with COVID last year the lessons were already essentially ready to go – I just had to send them to my principal. Then, I’ll print it out and use it as my planning guide. This gives us a lot of flexibility!

Lesson Plan 52

Lesson Plan Teaching Social Studies History 52

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With thousands of teachers using Zinn Education Project lessons each year, we hear amazing stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom. History students. Paradoxically, teaching people’s history leaves more room for hope than any other educational framework. Here are just a few.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan.

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Elementary School K-12 Middle School High School 124

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A And that’s definitely right — if you have an honestly defensible distinction. The college stayed shut for three years until angry alumni came up with enough money to buy and reopen it.

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Economics Social Justice Psychology Lesson Plan 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. Expanding that definition would threaten to impose unwieldy obligations on high-poverty schools across the U.S.,

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 109

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52