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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. 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!

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The Election of FDR and the Immediate Response to the Great Depression

ACRE

This one-day lesson plan was developed in Spring 2024 by Dr. Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The election would mark the first of Franklin D.

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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

The sessions received funding through a $25 million National Science Foundation grant to Columbia University. The teachers participating committed to creating lesson plans — like the shade simulation — that will be made available freely for others to use on platforms including the website SubjectToClimate.org.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

ED Surge

Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. They’ll pop into marketplaces, where they can, say, trade lesson plans they’ve created for tokens.

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First Things First When Teaching Civic Education

MPSA

Since that time, I have not had the opportunity teach Introduction to Political Science again. However, this semester I have begun teaching a new Teaching Civic Engagement course for Social Science Education majors seeking to be middle- and high-school teachers. About the Author Michael A. Bob Grover and Rob Catlett. 

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