Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course?

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Engaging Students with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial Sep 06, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker: Elizabeth Spasiano, 3rd Grade Teacher, NJ Elizabeth Spasiano: The reasons that I love using Social Studies Weekly as the teacher are really three-fold. The other reason that I love Social Studies Weekly is the materials.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

We also teach gifted students and we find that all the extra activities that Studies Weekly gives us are so great for our higher learners. Studies Weekly really adds to our Social Studies lessons and it makes it so easy for us to teach! We’re so happy with Studies Weekly and think you will be too.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

Emily Toronto, a 5th-grade teacher at Bonneville Elementary in Utah, reported that her lower-level reading students also struggle in social studies and science. Though helping students with reading in small groups helps a little, Toronto says, “it can get more difficult when doing content reading for social studies or science.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Breaking the “Right Answer” Mindset A lot of students were still raising their hands, hoping for the “right” answer, but I’m working hard to break them out of the mindset that social studies is just about filling in blanks. I want them to engage with the content and think critically—there are no simple answers here!

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

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History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

Both the book and SHEG outlined a social studies instructional concept, that at the time, was pretty revolutionary. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Inquiry-based learning. […]

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Take advantage of your resources like lesson plans, teaching strategies, printables, and more. Your Studies Weekly Online classroom contains digital versions of your publications and more online resources like digital lesson plans, videos, and presentations you can project to the whole class.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula. Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight Lesson Plans Press Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts 10 Summer Tips to Prepare a Great Classroom June 6, 2024 Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 You Have Primary Sources in Your (..)

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Teachers of history and social studies on all grade levels know they want students to do more than just memorize facts; they want students to practice thinking about history as well. And as citizens of a democracy, we want our students to be able to grapple with history, politics, and social and civic questions actively and critically.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. “Using both our print and online together gives the greatest benefits by far,” Bagley said.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

Onset Rime Strategies — PreK/Kindergarten. Unraveling the differences: Phonological awareness vs. phonics. Voyager Sopris Learning.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

For a copy of my lesson, follow this link. For a copy of a completed student version of this lesson, follow this link. This is because we need to get rid of it faster so we can be off of lockdown already.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Founded in 2009 by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics also offers readings and standards-aligned lesson plans about the Constitution, the three branches of government, media and influence, and many other topics. Indeed, teachers often use iCivics games as a prelude to more topical class conversations.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. Many states require lessons on the Civil War as part of U.S. history and social studies curriculums.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources. I mean, one of the big problems with the so-called AP African American Studies curriculum was the debate over what was a primary source versus secondary source.

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