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Creating Interactive Lessons Through App Smashing

A Principal's Reflections

Greg Kulowiec provides an excellent working definition: App Smashing is the process of using multiple apps to create projects or complete tasks. I often recommend the use of this tool in History as a way to explore primary source documents. Here is where app smashing comes into play.

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Constitution Activities that rock!

Active History Teacher

It’s the hardest primary source I teach and I’m sure many of you feel the same. One (Picture match) is a non-threatening way to apply the definitions of each of the principles. If you are new to Active History Teacher, then let me tell you. appeared first on Active History Teacher. I WANT it to be meaningful.

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Teaching the Progressive Era

Passion for Social Studies

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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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

It was a solid day of learning that tied the content to something personal and familiar for the students, making the history feel less distant and more relevant. I provided the Google definition for each term, but I wanted them to make it their own. We’re definitely keeping Number Mania in the rotation! On to the next!

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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. This past academic year, all high school English and history teachers received training; this fall, it’s science and math teachers’ turn.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

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.