How to Teach Students to Identify Bias in a Primary Source

Teachers should offer a wide variety of literacy support in their social studies curricula, otherwise students can fall behind.

Vocabulary instruction in social studies is important because it builds background knowledge that is essential when students are assigned to read complex non-fiction texts.

As educators, we always notice gaps and different learning styles among our students, but why is this? Researchers have deemed this “the achievement gap,” which refers to the difference in test scores between different groups of students.

“The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map.

Mental maps are representations of what a person “knows” about a place.

How do you start your class every day?

“If I am not for myself who is for me? And being for my own self, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?” – Hillel the Elder

“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.

There is a lot of information out there about inquiry-based learning: what it is, how effective it is, and so on.