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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. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Washington University in St.

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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. This step provided a clear foundation for the unit, ensuring that each lesson would target these specific deficits.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community. A second teacher candidate described learning more about local history that he ever knew about.