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Crafting a Standards-Aligned, Skill-Focused Unit with AI Collaboration

Moler's Musing

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present.

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How gaps in content knowledge hold students back

The Hechinger Report

teachers focus on, but do so using a common curriculum that ensures all students – regardless of class, race or geography – get exposure to a similarly broad set of ideas and facts. Curriculum teams are supplementing this with additional units built with Baltimore students in mind – helping them understand their local history, for example.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.