Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! Unlike textbooks, we won’t tell you what to teach or how to teach it. The post A 3000+ Document Library: A Blessing or a Curse? But which one should I use?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. I let kids choose their books. Reading “ The Magician’s Nephew ” by C.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

The reason for this is that we have put a premium on creating a teaching and learning culture that better meets the needs of our learners while enhancing essential skills such as collaboration, communication, creativity, media literacy, and global awareness. They then created QR codes for those websites.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. A unique and effective way teachers can do this is by giving opportunities for regulating emotions through proprioceptive input activities.

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Primary Sources American History World History Lesson Plan 89

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) : Teachers perceived their students’ top problem as missing social interactions at school or with friends (88 percent), followed by keeping up academically (82 percent). Social-Emotional Learning as Part of Whole Child Learning.

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Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 143

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Slideshow Landmarks Don’t Look Behind You Magic Elevator Game 1: Slideshow Slideshow is a great game for students to recall and re-interpret literature, social studies, and science content. Title: The Future Life of Miss Honey and Matilda Slide 1 : Here you see Matilda and Miss Honey co-teaching in the 1st grade classroom!

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 30, 2024

Teacher Tips: A Better Way to Think About Social Studies Jan. 30, 2024 • by Debbie Bagley Some of the best teaching advice I received from my mother, a teacher of 30+ years, was a different way to look at Social Studies. Every subject, discipline, and activity teaches Social Studies.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

My favorite place to send students to look for history-based images is the Library of Congress. Library of Congress Primary Source Sets I encourage students to browse the primary source sets or to search for an image. Students need to select an image and then lay text on top of or directly under the image.

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History Primary Sources Social Studies Library 130

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. Nate teaches Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. When I teach unit rates, I transform my room into a grocery store. This teaches them that they can learn anything. This isn’t really about math. Tier 3: “My job.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. But I did enjoy teaching. Not Caleb Brown.

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. Things that go way beyond classroom décor.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I loved my colleagues on my social studies team; we shared resources and supported each other. I would attend a workshop or read an article on a new teaching technique, and I’d be excited about new ideas, but then struggle to find opportunities and resources to implement them. I taught at a small school. Why is it there?

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Library Digital Resources Social Studies Teaching 127

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. Wayne Grimm, Library Instructional Technology Teacher at Westview High School, Beaverton, Oregon.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. Social studies was the class I excelled in because it felt most meaningful. Cultural and social relevance. I have never had students more engaged in the content of class.

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Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 131

Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

In this post, we highlight how HP Teaching Fellows Josh Luukkonen , Chad Sorrells , and Mahfuza Rahman are designing authentic learning experiences that connect learners with real problems and audiences. When Josh Luukkonen’s school closed due to COVID-19, Luukkonen’s junior high social studies students were studying economics.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

One of my doctoral students’ dissertations at the University of Minnesota , for instance, found that overzealous school filtering prohibited student access to online content essential for satisfying state Social Studies and Health curricular standards.

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Leadership Library Social Studies Humanities 89

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Clearly delineated areas (You might see a dress-up area, an artist’s station or a mini-library, for example.). What you can ask: What’s your teaching philosophy? (A What’s your training and how long have you been teaching? What do you like about teaching preschool? Low shelves with accessible toys.

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Artifacts Library Social Studies Teaching 111

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

Built on 14 key practices, it’s a way of teaching that gets students up on their feet, collaborating and thinking through challenging problems on a daily basis. “Language arts, social studies, science. When I first saw a video of this strategy in action, I was immediately captivated. ” Liljedahl explains.

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Pedagogy K-12 Library Tradition 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. Teaching students about 9/11 is challenging because it’s a complex topic, and many teachers have said they lack the resources, training and time to teach it.

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History Social Studies Museum Civics 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

I was recently teaching my eighth grade science class a lesson on volcanoes, and we got to talking about Mount Vesuvius when one of my students shot her hand up in the air and said, “Mr. I teach at Zama American Middle-High School , a Department of Defense school in Kanagawa, Japan. Pope, I used to live near there.

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Historic Sites Education Museum Tutoring 96

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

While these students — a group we’re calling experienced multilinguals — are probably quite comfortable and fluent with speaking English socially, they may still be unfamiliar with the academic language used in science, social studies, math, and other content areas. They have friends. They are in the community.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. A number of states are fiercely battling over curriculum standards, and not just in history and social studies. The fusion of politics and education is hardly unusual.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

But I think now it’s especially important because we have so many things that they’re exposed to that are teaching like the wrong lessons. The kind of behaviors that we get in this ‘gotcha’ culture of social media are directly the opposite of what is productive in conversation. “That’s always been important.

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Pedagogy Library Social Studies Social Justice 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Because she is African American, like most of the residents, “no one knew I was Teach For America,” she said. They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. In other schools, bilingualism was not accepted or important,” said Menéndez, who has been teaching for 27 years. Leer en Espanol.

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Elementary School Middle School Library Research 126

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music. The social studies teacher organizes a debate about the dilemma, using one of several possible formats.

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Controversial Topics Middle School Social Studies Library 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?”

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Word Generation introduces new words by embedding them in brief texts about controversial issues of interest to many adolescents, such as steroid use among athletes, legalization of euthanasia, and censorship of libraries and popular music. The social studies teacher organizes a debate about the dilemma, using one of several possible formats.

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Controversial Topics Middle School Social Studies Library 72

ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

Download Election of 1932 Lesson Plan Learn more: Looking for more lesson plans & activities for teaching about economic history?

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Economics Lesson Plan Civics Policy Impact 52

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These innovative art programs are the brainchild of Robert Hoang, who joined the Burbank team last year to teach visual arts to K–6 students, and to work with his colleagues to plan arts integration lessons. Middle school students use pre-crafted story maps to learn standard classroom content in science and social studies.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 104

ACRE

AUGUST 23, 2022

Over the summer, Arkansas Social Studies, CTE, and Mathematics educators attended Personal Finance Day at UCA, an event focused on teaching the Arkansas Personal Finance standards. Are you teaching a course that embeds personal finance standards this semester? Learn more and access the guide and video resources here.

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Economics Social Studies Library Professional Development 52

Leah Cleary

JUNE 23, 2024

I’ll be entering my 24th year of teaching in the fall (I obviously started teaching when I was 10). I’m the department chair for social studies at a high school in Georgia and have taught social studies for most of my career (save six in ELA). Go ahead and prepare by signing up for the Free Resource Library.

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Social Studies Library High School Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The state allows a 50 percent rate reduction if the high school provides the college class in its own building — but that requires having staff that’s certified to teach college-level courses, a rarity in most rural schools. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

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High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 96

TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Video Activities: We added new video activities for middle school and high school social studies programs. This year, we added 36 more free lessons and teaching resources connected with seasonal events. Assessment Library: With over 94,000 custom assessments, you’ve been hard at work editing TCI tests.

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Primary Sources Professional Development Library Middle School 52

Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

But the development of the Coronavirus required the creation of a whole new “case study.” What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do.

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Lesson Plan Charter School History Library 67

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These can help you bring social studies to life for your students. Think of the Socratic Seminar not just as a teaching strategy but as a hotline to the past, bringing it alive in ways that can resonate with your students. I love the strategy, but why use them in a social studies class? What is a Socratic Seminar?

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Library Critical Thinking History Social Studies 52

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These can help you bring social studies to life for your students. Think of the Socratic Seminar not just as a teaching strategy but as a hotline to the past, bringing it alive in ways that can resonate with your students. I love the strategy, but why use them in a social studies class? What is a Socratic Seminar?

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Library Critical Thinking History Social Studies 52