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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

. * * * My most recent connection with a cultural center occurred over a year ago when BSC social studies teacher candidates worked with the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (UGRR) during an informal service-learning project. A second teacher candidate described learning more about local history that he ever knew about.

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

Moler's Musing

In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how I collaborated with AI (ChatGPT) to develop a comprehensive 5-6 day unit on Native American history, tailored specifically for my 8th-grade students. After receiving the analysis, I followed up with, “Take each one of these readings and match the style of the previous readings/lessons.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

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! They could make a local history wiki or, even better, make contributions to our global information commons by directly creating and editing Wikipedia pages.