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Teaching Voting in the Social Studies Classroom

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This will definitely be an exciting election year. This includes detailed lesson plans, PowerPoints, URLs to videos, and all activities. Luckily, these 11 lesson plans help make that happen! Third Party Lesson $ 6.00 Add to cart Voting Three Day Lesson $ 6.00

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Vocabulary Lesson Plan

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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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A Principal's Reflections

Perna’s US History I course worked on developing a colonial road trip project this month. Students were to develop a trip that someone could take today to explore colonial history through one of the three colonial regions. Students enjoyed the project and made colonial history come alive!

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Teaching the Progressive Era

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The United States has experienced so many dynamic changes throughout its rich history. So, it shows that while it is a good term to generalize a scattered era of history, it has flaws. Students will learn this through several primary sources before deciding if the era was truly progressive after studying the definition.

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These Schools Are Banding Together to Make Better Use of AI in Education

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One student is working on a chatbot that better curates movie and television show recommendations based on a viewers recent watch history. Many teachers, already, are looking for ways to use AI to build lesson plans and improve student feedback, Huh says: We know its coming. This definitely isnt the end, she says.

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Concerned Parents and Lawmakers: Here’s What You’ll Really See in My Classroom

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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.

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