Manipulatives and More!
January 18, 2023
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Manipulatives can be an exciting tool to add to your teacher toolbox for Social Studies, they provide you many opportunities to both teach and practice
New Ideas for the New Republic
January 6, 2022
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Are you struggling to organize your unit on the New Republic? This era can be challenging with the amount of content and standards that are
Hexagonal Thinking in Social Studies
September 30, 2021
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If you are like me, you are always looking for new and exciting ways to engage your students in Social Studies. I try at least
Playing Games with Task Cards
October 18, 2019
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Do you use task cards in your classroom? Have you experimented with the many different ways they can help students review content? Task cards are
Eight Steps for Review Game Success
April 3, 2019
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Active review games are essential to student success! There are so many different ways to play review games in your class – but to make
Using Connection Cards to Enhance Vocabulary Instruction
September 2, 2018
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If you are like me, you are always looking for a new way to utilize your Word Wall. Recently I was playing around with different
Task Cards that Multi-Task for You
July 1, 2017
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Every teacher is a multi-tasker. You are listening to one group, keeping an eye on another group, assessing if the information you are providing is
American Colonization Review Games
September 8, 2016
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As a teacher, you know the best way to review for a test is with a game. But as teachers, we also secretly, (or perhaps
Features of a Civilization
August 25, 2016
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Super-Engaging Social Studies Lesson & Activity Set: Features of a Civilization Social studies teachers would agree that our goal is not just to teach