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3 Novels to Read with Middle School Students in Social Studies
When I first started teaching history, it was difficult for me to incorporate reading passages in a productive and interesting way.
Connect European Imperialism to Your Students’ Lives via the Quinceanera and Cinco de Mayo
Author’s mother, Addy Yolanda López de Moguel, quinceañera, 1961, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Incorporate Service Learning to Help Students Use Civics Beyond the Classroom
Service learning has been a cornerstone of my educational approach for over a decade.
How to Use Essential Questions to Focus Instruction in Social Studies
How does a teacher narrow down over 5000 years of human history and culture for the classroom? Use essential questions!
Help Teachers in Your District Transfer Thinking Routines into the Classroom
Before we as educators are able to make thinking visible to students we have to first make the processes and procedures of thinking visible to ourselves.
Activities to Get Students to Do the Reading in Social Studies
Students not doing the reading assigned for homework seems to be an eternal challenge for every teacher.
The Impact of the Growth Mindset
“We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us.
Use Mapping Activities to Help Students Remember Historical Concepts
“It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
Teach Vocabulary Using the Four Language Domains
Students are required to learn several hundred new words each year.