Using Your Summer Vacation Photos in Your Social Studies Curriculum

Students are drawn to monsters, so teachers use their interest in the weird and scary to their advantage and teach social studies themes through these figures.

Become a teacher, they said! It’ll be fun, they said!  Truly, there is no more rewarding job than teaching and making a difference in students’ lives each and every day.

Every teacher has experienced the sensation of looking up at the clock midway through the lesson and thinking, “Where did the time go?!” No matter the bell schedule, it never seems like there is enough time to do all of the things you want to do: teach content, build literacy, practice writing, engage in discourse, […]

This July marks the 175th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, a landmark event in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States, which took place on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.

By now, we are all familiar with the Holocaust.

You pass them every day.

Economics is one of the smaller and less talked about aspects of social studies, but a no less important concept for students.

Juneteenth, the newest designated federal celebration, is a holiday that the United States recognizes on June 19th.

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, which honors the 1969 Stonewall uprisings.