The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Kim, a reading specialist, and other researchers had developed two sets of multi-year lesson plans, one for science and one for social studies. When schools shut down in the spring of 2020, the researchers scrapped the planned social studies units for second graders. Sign up for the Proof Points newsletter.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Most of the studies took place after 2000 and included observations of almost 1,800 teachers. The studies not only looked at reading or English language arts classes, but also science and social studies. In some of the studies, researchers recorded hours of instruction and analyzed transcripts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The science and social studies topics should be sequenced so that the ideas build upon each other, and paired with vocabulary that will be useful in the future. All the latest Core Knowledge study proves is that students are more likely to do well on a test of something they have been taught.

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Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 137

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2019

Drawing from both learning sciences research and feedback from educators, we developed this framework to support teachers in identifying where their students can leverage computational thinking.

Lesson Plan 134

Lesson Plan Social Studies Learning Science Humanities 134

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 3rd grade science. 2nd grade social studies. 6th grade science. But it’s an open question whether students can learn every subject this way. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. Curriculum. Curriculum. Curriculum.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Instead, the successful teaching of scientific thinking starts with a content-rich lesson where students learn to ask the right questions and evaluate evidence while they are processing information on dolphins, molecules or another specific science topic. Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds.

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