Beyond the Frame

How do you get your students to see beyond the surface level of a topic? Do you ever just give a picture to your students

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Sequencing Strategies

What is history without dates? But more importantly, do your kids know how different events relate to each other? Can they see relationships between the

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4 Corner Analogies

I absolutely love to get students out of their seat – however when you teach Social Studies, you don’t have a lot of time to

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Remember who you are…

Testing season is upon us – state testing, federal testing, testing to see if our students are still breathing after all of the testing …

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Revving Up Writing

If your kids are anything like my kids – they HATE TO WRITE! Do you get work samples like this? My first year of teaching,

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Historical Tweets

Are you looking for a way to engage your students in Social Studies? How can they process information and prove to you they have learned?

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Headline News Summary

Summarization is a key concept that many students struggle with – regardless of grade level. This summarization strategy works with both upper elementary through junior

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Fishbone

Looking for a simple graphic organizer for an event? Tired of the “same ole’, same ole’” graphic organizers? Have you ever tried a fishbone? It

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