Knowledge | Social Studies Success

Playing Games with Task Cards

October 18, 2019 No Comments

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

Top 5 Tips for Using the Musical Hamilton in your Classroom – Don’t Wait for It

October 14, 2019 No Comments

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “Hamilton” has been a gift to US History teachers. The lyrics bring the voices of the founding fathers to our generation in

Don’t decorate your room this year – Design it for learning!

July 29, 2019 1 Comment

Don’t Decorate – Design! It is back to school time, and teachers all across the US are frantically putting up posters and bulletin boards to

Eight Steps for Review Game Success

April 3, 2019 No Comments

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 No Comments

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

Building Engagement in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom

August 17, 2018 No Comments

When students are working with each other on a task that requires cooperation, you will get engaged students. Don’t think that just assigning a student

New Ideas for Word Walls

July 30, 2018 No Comments

Your word wall should have terms and color images. You do not need to post the definition for the word wall to be effective. The

Lap Books: Out of the House and into the Classroom

February 2, 2018 No Comments

Lap Books have been a very popular tool for research, study and review in the world of homeschool instruction. The variety of benefits from

Teaching the Constitution

October 22, 2017 No Comments

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

Why Study History?

July 21, 2017 1 Comment

As a classroom teacher, you often get hit with that question – usually within the first week of school by a student who “Does Not