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President’s Day Activities for Middle School

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

President’s Day Activities President’s Day is coming up soon, but how should you celebrate it with your middle school students? Even if you don’t teach government on a regular basis, we hope you’ll find these activities to be a meaningful addition to your teaching. Constitution here.

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AP Government Review

Passion for Social Studies

As they prepare, they often take stressful courses, such as AP Government. Thankfully, there are resources ready for an amazing AP Government review! Amendments While students begin learning amendments in middle school, it is so hard to remember them all! AP Government Review Games Students love games!

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

Because the government wanted to focus on what works, Sahni only analyzed studies with positive results for students. It had been effective at teaching algebra to eighth graders who were strong math students but attended middle schools that didn’t offer algebra to eighth graders, according to this 2011 study.

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PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

The Hechinger Report

High school Advanced Placement. Government and Politics curriculum. This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. 6th grade science. Developer: Stanford University Research. Curriculum. We know it works.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! government as well.

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

ED Surge

Even if schools have high-quality curricula that can take some lesson-planning off teachers’ shoulders, they can’t use it if they don’t have time or aren’t trained on how to use it. “When I talk to teachers in their first and second years, they're telling stories of sitting in their living room and crying at 2 a.m.

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When kids pick their ‘trusted adult,’ it pays off

The Hechinger Report

She said having someone at school who could help was “really, really important.” Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. “If

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