Living Geography

MARCH 25, 2025

Via the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Do you teach Geography in Scotland? Wed love to hear from you!

Geography 40

Geography Social Studies Teaching Research 40

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Executive Function Skills : Research shows us that this work can support executive function skills like listening, turn-taking, impulse control, and working memory. Research shows that by combining physical activity with words, there is greater retention, so use this to your advantage! Right Angle: Go to a corner.

Geography 290

Geography Social Studies Pedagogy Library 290

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2011

I also downloaded an sat vocabulary app and a geography quizzes app to brush up on knowledge. I used it recently to organize my thoughts into a research paper. It''s a great app for planning and studying purposes as well. I''m thinking of using it to outline study guides for any tests that I may have.

Geography 280

Geography High School Social Studies Research 280

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

To set my doubts aside, I surveyed the relevant research and found that many of the assumptions upon which the workshop model was founded are simply false — starting with the assumption that reading comprehension depends on “reading comprehension skills.” Is Shakespearean English simply too difficult for middle schoolers?

Teaching 145

Teaching Geography History Library 145

Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Secondary Social Studies Interventionist As any good teacher does, I often eavesdrop. During my fourteen years of eavesdropping, I’ve heard social studies teachers lament that they are “not reading teachers”. Why is background knowledge important in social studies? By Kydra Hubbard, Ed.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Geography Advocacy Leadership 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

Learning Science 145

Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Yet we’re all experiencing the same problems.

Junior High 52

Junior High Library K-12 Social Studies 52

TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Building a toolbox of teaching strategies can help educators meet the needs of students and bring social studies to life. This hands-on approach ensures that students are not just absorbing information but actively applying and exploring it, making subjects like social studies more meaningful and memorable.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Professional Development Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Researchers have long found correlations between a child’s knowledge and reading scores, but that’s not the same as proving that building knowledge first is what causes reading comprehension to flourish later. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers. However, U.S.

Charter School 145

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 145

Ashleigh's Education Journey

APRIL 25, 2013

Research projects have a bad wrap these days. I certainly remember completing my fair share of boring research projects, but it doesn’t have to be that way…not even close! In fact, my students have been begging me to assign a state or country research project. It is easy to get kids REALLY excited about geography.

Research 52

Research Geography Tradition Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

Controversial Topics 125

Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 125

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.

Primary Sources 126

Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers. Every new school year I think about Esther’s words as I strive to create an environment for my students that supports language acquisition and learning through social studies content.

Geography 128

Geography World History Teaching Social Studies 128

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. Researchers tend to agree that screen time itself is not bad, at least for older kids.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

High School 77

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 77

ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

Using this series of activities, social studies teachers can guide their students through key ideas presented in Smith’s Wealth of Nations. They research technology and how new ideas and inventions impact the lives of individuals, families, & communities. Constitution Geography: WSP.2.G.2 Constitution PD.4.C.2

K-12 52

K-12 Geography Economics Civics 52

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.

Teaching 52

Teaching Geography Ancestry Primary Sources 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw, along with building content knowledge encourages students to discover more about their peers while contributing to a common educational task such as reading or researching. Jigsaw Strategy Oct.

K-12 52

K-12 Lesson Plan Geography Civics 52

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

When students need to read for understanding, comprehension, or retention, research shows that they perform better with print materials rather than a screen. Research shows that paper learning better engages students, improves material retention and comprehension, and helps them move to a ready-to-learn mindset.

Artifacts 52

Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Amanda Peters, a 2023 MAHG graduate, teaches AP Government and AP Human Geography at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. Peters agreed. No wonder political discussions become contentious.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement American History Government 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

Social Studies 142

Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 142

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!”

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

K-12 97

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 97

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Even in Alabama, a Pew Research Center survey shows , more than one-third of those who lean Republican say homosexuality should be accepted. She followed her parents into education (her father was a geography professor) and returned to teach social studies at the high school. You go to Samford to not be different.”

High School 140

High School Elementary School Geography Public School 140

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017. Similarly to Garrett County in Maryland , the geography of this rural district makes broadband access inaccessible for many families.

Library 132

Library Geography High School Civics 132

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Credit: Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local Researchers have found bilingual education helps students learn English faster and can boost their standardized test scores, increase graduation rates, better prepare them for college and much more. Voters banned it again in 1998, only reversing the latest prohibition in 2016.

Elementary School 124

Elementary School Education K-12 History 124

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

Teaching 138

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 138