8 Close-Reading Strategies to Develop Literacy Skills in Social Studies

How can you ditch the textbook and go with a non-traditional curriculum for social studies?

History/social studies teachers know they have to cover, at some point, Africa in world history courses and the African American experience in U.

Inquiry is a term that has been bantered around frequently in the education world.

More and more often, history teachers are being asked to structure their curricula thematically as opposed to chronologically, in hopes of increasing student engagement and facilitating comparison among multiple perspectives.

Here you see two examples of map projections of our incredible world.

Role-playing simulations are great for retention, comprehension, literacy, and group decision-making.

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

Democracy begins in the classroom.

Some students from socioeconomically disadvantaged households may have gaps in social interaction which worsen the achievement gap.