Everyday Economics: Used Clothing Markets to Teach Circular and Underground Economics

Before the pandemic, I thought I was a pretty good teacher.

Women’s roles are often overlooked when teaching about the economy of the ancient world.

Interdisciplinary learning, also known as cross-disciplinary learning, is an educational approach that integrates concepts, methods, and content from multiple academic disciplines or fields of study.

We are accustomed to referring to fiction as “fake” and nonfiction as “real.

As a former student who attended multiculturally diverse schools, celebrating the holidays and celebrations of my peers from different cultures made school all the more memorable.

Imagine building a piece of Ikea without the instructions.

In my relatively short time teaching, I have been asked this question numerous times by secondary students: Why are we learning social studies? What’s the point? Why do we need to learn it? Other teachers I have taught with have also been asked this question, which has always fascinated me.

Teachers across the country are out traveling to destinations near and far this summer.

Students are drawn to monsters, so teachers use their interest in the weird and scary to their advantage and teach social studies themes through these figures.