Social Studies Strategies for Building Background Knowledge
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
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 can be an exciting tool to add to your teacher toolbox for Social Studies, they provide you many opportunities to both teach and practice
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
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
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
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
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
Lap Books have been a very popular tool for research, study and review in the world of homeschool instruction. The variety of benefits from
Constitutional Conflict? How do you grab your students attention with the Constitution? It’s hard for students to read and hard for them to understand. I
I am from the generation when vocabulary was taught by each student taking out a sheet of paper, copying the new words and writing
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.