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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. For example, most people over 30 can remember where they were on Sept. The primary source.

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Scaffolding: What is it and Why is it Important?

Studies Weekly

2 In Studies Weekly, the task of reading grade-level text is modeled with plenty of scaffolding that the student can then use to approximate the task on their own. Human-recorded audio has synchronized highlighting so that the students can see reading modeled and bring general and domain-specific vocabulary into their oral vocabulary.

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The Art of Annotation: Teaching Readers To Process Texts

Cult of Pedagogy

The novel being annotated is The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer Discussion and Feedback Students wrap up and review their annotations. Circulate and observe each group , helping students deepen their thinking by asking questions and making connections between the annotations. link] Lloyd, Z.T.,

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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

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McGraw Hill AR activity for the Boston Massacre Recommended Links Download McGraw Hill AR Read About Educator's Perceptions of AR Verizon Innovative Learning HQ We have seen AR primarily in math and science. What does AR look like in the humanities? It gives humanities a relevant context.”

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Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race

Cult of Pedagogy

How do you build community with them before they engage in those kind of discussions to kind of inoculate the conversations against natural human mistakes that people make. ” “The second thing is having, I call it a house talk environment. This is as much about not ignoring race as it is about infusing race into something.”

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Economics Activities

Ashleigh's Education Journey

After teaching about goods and services, I begin teaching about productive resources: human resources, natural resources, and capital resources. I love using this Social Studies Weekly video to introduce Productive Resources. I start by teaching about human resources, which is a fairly easy concept for students to understand.

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Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum

Cult of Pedagogy

Now she returns with three other educators — Fatma Elsamra, math, Reem Fakhry, science, and Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi, social studies — to focus more specifically on the curriculum piece of this work, approaches we can take to integrate Arab narratives into our teaching and curriculum. “Even our Quran is written in verse.