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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.
Moler's Musing
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Breaking the “Right Answer” Mindset A lot of students were still raising their hands, hoping for the “right” answer, but I’m working hard to break them out of the mindset that social studies is just about filling in blanks. It was simple but effective, reinforcing both geography and historical knowledge.
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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. And so on… .
Students of History
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
One of the most time and energy-saving strategies I started using in my social studies classroom was to employ unit guide packets for students. Geography The next page in the packet is a map activity to help students' geography skills and to better understand the location of cities, countries, battles, or major events from the unit.
Studies Weekly
JANUARY 10, 2024
The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. The Science of Drawing and Memory.
Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. She found interesting geography lessons online. Joining social studies teacher groups on Facebook, she built her own professional learning community (PLC). “I This was December.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 8, 2024
He writes, “Nearly everything about the war — the start and end dates, geography, vital military roles, the home front, and international implications — looks different when viewed from the African American perspective.” Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!”
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