Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

The next day, he thoroughly enjoyed discussing primary documents with these new friends. In the next sessions we got to relate what we saw to what we read in the documents. Another lesson plan evoked a positive parent response. Then we went to the Reagan Library and learned more about the era.

Junior High 52

Junior High Library K-12 Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. That’s hard.

Learning Science 145

Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. 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!

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He has worked to train teachers and students and also create some policy documents which he shared on a link. look you can create a lesson plan". They really are rather good. He talked about how no school can afford to ignore AI and hope it will go away. This was so much more than a session saying.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Lesson Plan 52

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

To do that, I took the primary sources straight out of the textbook and ran them through Claude AI with a simple prompt: “Keep the primary sourceness of these documents but make them so 8th graders can understand them.” The revised documents were a mix of Jamestown and Plymouth hardships and survival stories.

Primary Sources 126

Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences. The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. The foundation is so well established.

Social Studies 116

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 116

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Between managing the chaos of lesson planning, keeping up with my students, and coaching, it’s been a whirlwind. It’s been a huge time saver, especially since it allowed me to focus more on the classroom and less on the stress of documenting every detail.

Primary Sources 128

Primary Sources Artifacts Geography Lesson Plan 128