Using Artifacts for Unit Discovery
September 21, 2026
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Artifact Examination: Using Objects to Unlock Ideas Put a list of vocabulary words on the board and you get glazed eyes. Set a box on
Using Images for Pre Reading
September 17, 2026
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They Look at the Image First. They Always Do. Put a photograph and a paragraph on the same page and watch what happens. The eye
The Stagnant STAAR – Why Your Test Scores Aren’t Moving
June 22, 2026
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Why Our 8th-Grade Social Studies Scores Won’t Budge — and Two Things That Would Actually Move Them If you’ve been watching the 8th-grade Social Studies
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
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