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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Social Studies Geography Teaching Economics 75

Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

Others were catching up on missed work, either for ELA or social studies. For those working on social studies, I focused on building background knowledge about how the U.S. Enter the Annotated Mapa strategy that helps students apply history to geography the way they would annotate a text. acquired each territory.

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Geography Social Studies Interactive Learning History 98

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. This network of professionals has helped transform my teaching practice and feeds my teacher soul.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Geography Economics 67

Ashleigh's Education Journey

MAY 11, 2015

State and federal mandates and high stakes testing have made teaching elementary science and social studies a battle for time in the classroom. This battle has resulted in minimizing social studies and science instruction to focus on tested areas. In reality, this instruction may not be every day.

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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.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A Social Studies Interactive Notebook is a great way to engage students and to help students focus as they organize social studies content and/or take guided notes. One of the great things about this social studies interactive notebook is that you can adapt it to meet the needs of your classroom.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 30, 2024

Teacher Tips: A Better Way to Think About Social Studies Jan. 30, 2024 • by Debbie Bagley Some of the best teaching advice I received from my mother, a teacher of 30+ years, was a different way to look at Social Studies. Every subject, discipline, and activity teaches Social Studies.

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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. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. Not Caleb Brown.

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 131

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.

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Social Studies Geography Advocacy Leadership 52

Ashleigh's Education Journey

MAY 15, 2015

These words are important because they help students comprehend text across different content areas such as social studies and science. One of my favorite strategies for teaching academic vocabulary is frontloading or preteaching vocabulary. Below you can see an example of my social studies and science vocabulary terms.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

AUGUST 24, 2014

Geography worksheets aren’t always fun, but turn them into stations to make learning geography terms fun! Geography stations can make an often challenging concept or skill fun and meaningful for students. These nine geography stations can be used for a whole group lesson or for centers during social studies.

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Geography Social Studies Teaching Education 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of failure for aspiring Black and Latinx teachers is even higher than for aspiring white teachers, making lack of content knowledge preparation yet another obstacle to the diversification the teaching profession so dearly needs. Only 42 percent have said they felt very well prepared to teach social studies.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. Things that go way beyond classroom décor.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We’ll share ideas about what makes for a great simulation experience and walk through some examples for each civilization your students might study throughout the year. Teaching with Simulations Why should you consider teaching with simulations? We hope you give simulations a try with your students!

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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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. I had the blessing of teaching her daughter and collaborating with her.

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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.

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Library Geography High School Civics 131

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two dramatic conclusions. The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. However, U.S.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Instead of overwhelming them, I shifted to teaching them how to work efficiently, meet deadlines, and build confidence with every task. The goal wasn’t just to cover content, but to teach them how to learn and apply skills independently. It was simple but effective, reinforcing both geography and historical knowledge.

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Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship.

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Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 123

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amy Livingston never expected to find a vocation in teaching America’s story. She never expected to teach at all. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. She found interesting geography lessons online. Now she wondered how to earn a teaching credential.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

Step 2: Aligning with Standards With student needs in mind, the next step was to ensure that the unit was aligned with Ohio’s educational standards for 8th-grade social studies, specifically focusing on Native American history. I teach 8th graders mostly with special needs and IEPs. I also teach 65-minute classes.”

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American History Geography Local History History 76

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage. It also has teaching tips and resources, progress-tracking capabilities, and guides for mentoring — a key component of the program.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. One way to achieve this goal is through service-learning projects.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy.

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Economics Geography Civics History 83

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. Analyzing world, continent, and country maps, students consider how natural resources and natural geography influence economies. Constitution Geography: WSP.2.G.2 Constitution PD.4.C.2

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Geography K-12 Economics Civics 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What: (Description of the Strategy) Possible Sentences is a pre-reading strategy that intertwines an opportunity to activate prior knowledge and pre-teach academic vocabulary. By selecting 8-10 words that are a mixture of those previously studied and new terms, students identify connections between them.

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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. There's always an eye-catching image as well as a set of standards-based Essential Questions to guide your teaching of the unit. These vary from between 9-15 terms depending on the unit.

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Civics History Primary Sources Geography 52

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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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. Students can take their artifacts home, share what they learned with their families, and teach younger siblings.

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Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Slideshow Landmarks Don’t Look Behind You Magic Elevator Game 1: Slideshow Slideshow is a great game for students to recall and re-interpret literature, social studies, and science content. Title: The Future Life of Miss Honey and Matilda Slide 1 : Here you see Matilda and Miss Honey co-teaching in the 1st grade classroom!

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Geography Social Studies Pedagogy Library 273

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. Maureen Costello, director of Teaching Tolerance.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. Teaching Stories Teachers who received the hardback edition have shared their appreciation and teaching stories, including those below.

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History Education History Education Social Studies 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.

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Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 142

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

While the concept of HQIM has been established and embraced in other core academic disciplines, applying this concept to social studies has been more complex. Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Most states either don’t test social studies, or the social studies test doesn’t really count toward adequate yearly progress.”.

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