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Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies May 2, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER At first glance, social studies and music might seem like two separate subjects, but they can come together harmoniously to make learning more engaging and memorable. Music is everywhere!

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New Tools for Building Social Studies Skills and Assigning and Grading Updates

TCI

These updates will help you teach key social studies skills, streamline assigning and grading, and improve administrative tasks. Building Social Studies Skills New Economics Library: Economics concepts can be complex, but you can support student understanding of these concepts with the tools provided in the new Economics Library.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. of a standard deviation higher, on average.

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Balancing Cognitive Load in Social Studies

Moler's Musing

Easy and Hard Topics in Social Studies Ive realized that not all content is created equal when it comes to complexity. Some social studies topics are naturally easier for kids to access, while others require more mental lifting. If so, I probably dont need to add too much else (extraneous load).

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Washington University in St.

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How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world

The Hechinger Report

Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Most states either don’t test social studies, or the social studies test doesn’t really count toward adequate yearly progress.”.

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AP Government Videos for Enhancing Review

Passion for Social Studies

Political Socialization (3:12) 4.3 Ideology and Economic Policy (6:14) 4.10 Ideology and Social Policy (4:43) Unit 5: Political Participation The final AP government unit covers the ways citizens engage in the political process. American Attitudes About Government and Politics (5:15) 4.2 Changes in Ideology (2:28) 4.4