Studies Weekly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Making Social Studies Fun to Teach | Teacher Testimonial Nov 07, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker : Manda Rensel, 1st Grade Teacher, PA Tell us why you love Studies Weekly! For the past many years, we havent had a great Social Studies curriculum. Studies Weekly has changed my outlook on history, she says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

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. Among low-income students it’s worse.

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TCI

JANUARY 6, 2025

TCI, a leader in K-12 educational content and curriculum, is proud to announce that its K-6 and 7-12 Social Studies programs have received favorable reviews in the latest textbook adoption reports released by the Office of Instructional Materials & Library Services within the Mississippi Instructional Materials Review Board.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

If you’ve visited my blog, you know that social studies is my first love. With that being said, I also enjoy teaching writing and I’m constantly looking for ways to combine writing and social studies. In your opinion, which system provides a better educational environment? A monument? Be creative!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 6, 2021

I think that what I will say here is: Policymakers, you know how you’ve minimized the importance of history, government, and civics in all of your education reform efforts over the past couple of decades? Dreaming bigger for Iowa education. As someone who grew up in the Washington, D.C. Related Posts. Cuneiform, anyone?

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Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Honestly, this is the perfect way to turn blank space and daydreaming into key educational components. They will even learn about tests that presidential succession has experienced throughout US History. Add to cart The post Teaching the Executive Branch appeared first on Passion for Social Studies.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Government US Government 130

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

With data talent in high demand globally, other countries are investing billions in data education. But American K-12 education still underemphasizes data science and data literacy skills — including the ability to understand qualitative and quantitative data, assess claims based on data and make data-driven predictions.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Every Zinn Education Project session not only impacts my teaching, but unravels the damage done by whitewashed histories. You give me more tools to educate my students and make me a better teacher today. What a loss to have not been taught these parts of our history as children. I look forward to attending more!

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

So, I started to consider how I could bring meme-making into my classroom in a meaningful, educational way. The video made me laugh and think about how much the teacher of those students must have inspired a love of history! So, the history meme project was born in my classroom. What are my rules for making history memes?

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

That search led us to the Inquiry Design Model (IDM), an approach that shifts Social Studies from rote memorization to deep, student-driven inquiry. The impact was clear: students were not just learning history; they were doing history asking questions, evaluating evidence, and formulating arguments.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

You will hear from a science teacher, a social studies teacher, and an art teacher as each provides her take on how the Common Core and 21st Century learning goals affect what goes on in the classroom. I am not concerned with the regurgitation of art history dates and names and meaningless artist information onto paper.

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Museum Archiving Social Studies History 315

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

But no matter how the conversation starts, the students — nearly half of whom are Black, Asian, Hispanic or multiracial — often come back to complaints about the lack of diversity in our school’s textbooks and educational materials. Provide educators with the time and training to be culturally responsive teachers.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MAY 16, 2019

History Book Clubs are a fantastic way to get your students reading and engaging with history! Do you love teaching history? Do you try to integrate history into your reading block? One Saturday morning, I was at a Scholastic Warehouse Sale and I discovered a full shelf of history-based fiction and nonfiction books.

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Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

When teaching US History, there is a strong focus on heroic individuals. So, this lesson plan provides teachers with the necessary tools to educate students about the intricacies of the Civil Rights Era. They will transform the study into an enjoyable and enriching journey while showing students the power of using their voices.

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NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. The social studies standards focused on African American history, recently approved by the Florida Board of Education, sanitize historical acts of violence against Black Americans. Slavery is, and was, wrong.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2013

As someone who loves educational technology and knowing how much my son does as well, my wife and I figured this was an unbelievable opportunity that couldn’t be passed up. VR Quest™ is a fun and educational project-based learning (PBL) model that integrates fully immersive Virtual Reality technology.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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NCHE

APRIL 21, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. The social studies standards recently approved by the South Dakota Board of Education did not adequately take into account the expertise of its teachers. Download the statement here.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. Unfortunately, this portrayal isn't unique and reflects a broader issue with how social studies is perceived. However, if taught with the intent to inspire and engage, history is far from boring or monotone.

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Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2024

This year’s special Education Week Opinion project celebrating Black History Month focuses on what is going well in Black history education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right.

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Education Week - Social Studies

APRIL 15, 2024

A pilot to infuse Black history and culture in social studies is gaining ground in New York.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Donate Today Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking the very heart of the Zinn Education Project — teaching people’s history in classrooms across the country. Officials in at least 44 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we brought history to life with engaging EduProtocols that helped students dive deep into the Early Republic and key moments like the Whiskey Rebellion. While the textbook suggests this lesson could take two days, I find that assumption wildly unrealistic. hero, mentor, trickster).

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Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The sources students consult, the kinds of arguments they make, differ from history to economics to geography.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Even though it’s emerged as a national model for 21st-century rural education , it’s still difficult for a district like Piedmont to navigate the growing and expansive ed-tech marketplace. Know of a great middle school science or social studies app? Standards-aligned: 2010 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If you’re a history buff, you may already know that Cleopatra had a substantial amount of rizz. History teacher Lauren Cella's "Gen Z Teaches History" series has earned about 30 million views on Instagram and TikTok combined. And I always say, ‘History is interesting.’ I think other people make it boring.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. He has long argued that U.S.

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HistoryRewriter

JANUARY 17, 2024

Adam Moler and I will kick off the second season of The Social Studies Show on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 6 PT/9 ET. The Archetype Foursquare EduProtocol (Chapter 13) helps students at all levels demonstrate that they can transfer their learning from one subject (English) to another (History). Was it George P.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

In this second post on our series on authentic learning with virtual exchange , HP Teaching Fellow Glen Coleman shares how students are using Skype to learn about history through the lens of contemporary issues. In my view, history loses its power to open students’ minds when it does not directly connect to now.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 6, 2010

In my last post I wrote about some iPad apps that I thought were must adds for administrators and educators alike. After sharing my excitment about the iPad with a social studies teacher today we decided to purchase two of these for the department in lieu of a laptop. There are so many cool educational history apps out there!

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Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2024

Here are some books, documentaries, websites, and social media accounts to help you teach Black history in all its complexity.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2012

On December 15, 2011, Mr. Tusa of the Social Studies Department guest lectured on the history of racism in America in Mrs. DePoto’s AP Language and Composition class. Future collaboration between the Social Studies Department and the Language Arts Department is planned.

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Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

As a member and current president of the Kansas Council for Social Studies, the working relationship between the professional Social Studies organizations in Kansas is one that I deeply cherish and am proud to be a part of. One way we do that is to co-host a yearly social studies conference.

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