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A History of Quack Cures: Critical Analysis in the Classroom
Quacks love health crises, and the COVID-19 virus has become very lucrative for people who make claims about unscientific cures.
Investigating Personal Primary Sources with Elementary Students
Where do you find elementary school historians? The answer can be right in your digital classroom!
Adapting Social Studies Best-Practices to Distance Learning
In these changing times, what are some of the social studies best-practices that we can apply in a remote learning environment?
As Your District Goes Remote, Our Digital Platforms Are Here to Provide Support
School and district closures are rippling across the nation and the world as our communities join together to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
How to Transition to a Blended Social Studies Curriculum
A few years ago, I “splashed” into the blended learning scene only to abandon it several months in.
How to Make Elementary Social Studies Challenging and Exploratory
Many teachers struggle to motivate their elementary students to learn, especially when teaching social studies.
4 Reasons to Read Aloud in the Social Studies Classroom
When educators think about reading aloud to students, they often picture circle-time in an elementary classroom where a teacher reads a short story to the class.
The Disappearing Social Studies Curriculum (and Tips to Integrate Content into Other Subjects!)
A pedagogical shift towards teaching social studies in conjunction with other subjects, and not as an isolated topic, has slowly emerged on the horizon in public schools for the last five years.
Classroom Management Tips: Lessons from Historical Utopias
We want our classrooms to be utopian communities, ideal worlds of cooperation and happiness.