Lights, Camera, Action! Using Movies to Engage Students in the Social Studies Classroom

Political tensions and polarization are having a direct impact on our social studies classrooms.

Social media: it’s frequently the object of students’ focus and the bane of our existence as teachers.

I want to imagine that you are an elementary school teacher, and you just found a magic lamp with a genie.

Teaching complex social studies topics like U.

“I don’t know what else to do…” Those are words that I, and many educators like me, have said when looking at how to support our students.

Simulations are fascinating.

Revolutions: they change the world and they can create and destroy entire nations or societies.

As a social studies teacher, I find myself wanting to teach my students anything and everything I can about the many subject areas we cover.

Social studies combines a lot of different topics in a variety of content areas.