“Pealing” Away Boring Social Studies Lessons with Bells

Before the computer revolution, cut and paste required scissors and glue.

In early 2019, I walked into an exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles that exponentially expanded my love and respect for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In our modern world, different groups are seeking to make changes in their society.

Collective memory, or social memory, is how a group of people remember and forget the past.

Social studies classrooms can often become a regurgitation of facts, events, and people throughout history.

History is the study of past events in human affairs and part of our daily lives.

In the summer of 1381, working people in England were enraged, and for two months they made their voices heard by forming armed groups, marching on several towns and London, destroying the property of hated government officials, and burning tax records.

Urban legends, referred to by folklorists as contemporary legends, are fictional stories claimed to be true.

Across the country and the world, people are rallying behind the Black Lives Matter movement to enact change in a system that has historically been unjust to people of color.