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Age-appropriate Text and Engaging Activities with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

Unlike traditional textbooks, Studies Weekly removes barriers and allows for a dynamic, interactive approach to learning. [The newspapers] draw students in with their visuals and text features. They can be used in so many wayscutting out pictures, making connections, highlighting key details, and annotating.

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Refreshed Digital Notebook Activities for Social Studies

Students of History

I designed the digital pages I created to look like traditional notebooks - vertically aligned and in the style of the "cut-and-paste" activities we were already doing. Plus there’s lesson plans for every day, flipped classroom videos, Google Slides, primary sources, worksheets, and more for every unit.

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10 Summer Tips to Prepare a Great Classroom

Studies Weekly

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference

Studies Weekly

In 1966, she won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording. Biography.com records how her anti-apartheid songs raised awareness of the injustice happening in her native homeland. As a world-renowned singer, she also helped popularize African music.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

In lieu of a traditional exam for one of my U.S. In using the How We Remember lesson plan, our students engaged with Smith’s writing and started to explore the spaces he visited where the history of enslavement is either remembered or forgotten. The lesson opened their eyes to the struggle and bravery of these groups.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals.