History Labs
February 5, 2025
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Are you serious about teaching Social Studies skills, but looking for new ways to incorporate them? One of the hardest set of skills to teach
Social Studies Strategies for Building Background Knowledge
November 28, 2023
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By Kydra Hubbard, Ed. S. Secondary Social Studies Interventionist As any good teacher does, I often eavesdrop. During my fourteen years of eavesdropping, I’ve
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
Creating Successful Social Studies Stations
February 2, 2022
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Have you wanted to try stations, but are unsure where to start? Have you used stations with your students, but were unsuccessful? I remember my
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
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
Lap Books: Out of the House and into the Classroom
February 2, 2018
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Lap Books have been a very popular tool for research, study and review in the world of homeschool instruction. The variety of benefits from
Why Study History?
July 21, 2017
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As a classroom teacher, you often get hit with that question – usually within the first week of school by a student who “Does Not
My Summer Treasure Hunt
June 9, 2017
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By Kristi Grubaugh, Featured Teacher – Summer means the opportunity to read for leisure. There is a basket of cozy mystery paperback waiting for
Free Bill of Rights Foldable
Create a mini-book with your students over the Bill of Rights and the Principles of Government. Your students can make this book in under 10 minutes, and then you can use it for review with a variety of games.
