Tools for the Elementary Classroom: Evaluating Primary and Secondary Sources [Transcript]

Inquiry-based activities: necessary for social studies standards, but also a teacher favorite! Try to challenge your students in the classroom with a primary source mystery.

You are never too young to hold onto a piece of history and discover its connection to your life.

How can you focus on ways to assess your students based on the questions that they ask as opposed to the answers that they give you?

“No one puts Baby in the corner!” That line that melts hearts everywhere as Patrick Swayze’s character, Johnny, brings Baby front and center and into the spotlight in Dirty Dancing.

The C3 Framework is a framework for social studies education laid out by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) that is inquiry based and aims to prepares students for college, careers, and civic life.

An election year provides the perfect opportunity for teachers to incorporate civics into the curriculum.

“The camera doesn’t lie” is often assumed to be true about historical photographs, even though we know that maxim is certainly not true in the twenty-first century.

Teaching our students in a completely virtual environment has been a whole new world.

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.