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. Washington University in St.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, preparing thought-provoking, engaging lessons takes a lot of trial and error. This includes proper pacing, course organization, current events, projects, and Socratic discussions. Therefore, lesson plans and required resources are ready to go. This is needed as learning strategies evolve each year.

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Sociology Lesson Plan Social Studies High School 130

Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Specifically, students will select one US federal event, such as Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Hurricane Katrina. Federalism Court Case Lesson $ 6.00 Add to cart Federalism Lesson $ 5.00 Add to cart The post Federalism Round Up appeared first on Passion for Social Studies.

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Government US Government Social Studies Lesson Plan 130

Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

Sometimes teachers have to stay after school to complete lesson planning, grading, copying, or other tasks that they might not have been able to finish during the day. Add to cart The post 5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships appeared first on Passion for Social Studies. every weekday.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Taryn Shelton, the academy’s K-12 data science coordinator, said the goal isn’t to add yet another thing to teachers’ plates, but to help them use data to enrich their lesson plans and expose students to data science skills early on. ‘Shelton’s team also hosts events like mini hackathons where high schoolers can work with data.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. They help students understand what real people of the past saw, felt, and heard as they lived through the events we study in school.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 23, 2024

My day begins with teaching two 65-minute social studies periods, followed by a plan period, co-teaching a reading workshop with an ELA teacher, and ending the day with two more 65-minute social studies classes. So far this school year is flying by. I’m really enjoying my new schedule.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The lesson plan provides examples that you can discuss with students to show them how to track income and expenses as well as how to create short and long terms savings plans. Educators receive free resources like books, curriculum guides, and activity kits at all ACRE professional development events.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

While some of these lessons are pretty easy to modify from semester to semester (there will always be debates over immigration, the connections may just be different), sometimes a major event requires the creation of a new lesson. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

According to Britannica, Blackwell created two theorems, the Blackwell Renewal Theorem, which models the behavior of long sequences of random events, and the Rao-Blackwell Theorem, which helps statisticians improve the accuracy of their estimators. See how Studies Weekly Science can help your students become future scientists.

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History Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 52

Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He served on the mission control team during Apollo 11’s successful Moon landing, and played an instrumental role in computing the trajectory and successful recovery back to Earth during the events of Apollo 13. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 • by Debbie Bagley I love the magazine and newspaper style of Studies Weekly, because with its engaging primary and secondary sources, and activities you can do right on the publication, it allows for so much more than just simply reading from a textbook – which tends to take the life out of any subject.

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Artifacts Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2017

There’s an introductory curriculum guide , lesson plans , and sample Scratch projects for teachers to replicate or use as inspiration. Along with hundreds of resources, the site also hosts a discussion board for teachers and an events page to learn about upcoming workshops and conferences.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Founded in 2009 by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics also offers readings and standards-aligned lesson plans about the Constitution, the three branches of government, media and influence, and many other topics. Indeed, teachers often use iCivics games as a prelude to more topical class conversations.

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Civics K-12 Education Primary Sources 77

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level. Indeed, this year, the district’s new math curriculum is aligned with units from the web-based Khan Academy, and Young started directing students to the site’s online videos and lessons for extra practice or new challenges. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Related: Are we ready? How we are teaching — and not teaching — kids about climate change.

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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. This variety makes it challenging to create materials that are universally recognized as high quality across all aspects of social studies.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

Of course, it can be difficult to maintain the right perspective when teaching events that are so recent. However, ignoring this tragic day does a disservice to our students and to what we do as social studies teachers. However, I thought I would share an easy lesson plan that you might want to try in your high school classroom.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Thankfully, teaching the election will be a fun, exciting, and motivational process with The Political Socialization Lesson , Campaign Finance Lesson , and Electoral College Lesson ! The Importance of Elections Elections are not merely events where people cast votes and wait to hear the winner.

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Teaching Government Social Studies History 130

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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History Teaching Social Studies Middle School 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago. history and social studies curriculums.

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Teaching Primary Sources History K-12 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Chris Tims, a social studies teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, says he won’t stop teaching the 1619 Project, despite political pressure. Skyler Wheeler, a conservative, has a different view on the Pulitzer Prize-winning project, which has been expanded to include reading guides and lesson plans. and African American history.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Event Recording Recording of the full session, except for the breakout rooms. And of course, history and social studies teachers. I teach very young students (6-8 year olds), but plan on expanding our conversation of race and gender being social constructs to include crime as a social construct.

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