I am really excited about my next several blog posts. Why? Because I want to help you bring excitement and true engagement to your social studies classroom. Between my husband and myself, we have almost 40 years of teaching experience, with most of those years teaching social studies (and I ... Read More about FREE Simulation | 7 Ways to Step Away From the Lecture Podium & Revitalize Your Social Studies Classroom: Simulations
Hook Your Reluctant Students with Little Known Facts
I don't know about you, but I had students in my social studies class that didn't like history (**gasp**). I don't know how anyone could not like history, but these students did not. I was faced with making history interesting enough so they would participate in class and LEARN. Sometimes I know the ... Read More about Hook Your Reluctant Students with Little Known Facts
Setting Up the Middle Grades Classroom
Hey everyone! I figure since it's almost back to school season for some of you all, I wanted to update my BTS blog post I did a couple of years ago. I am going to share how I set up my classroom for the new school year. (I did change my room up after I wrote the original blog post, so some of ... Read More about Setting Up the Middle Grades Classroom
Spend Less Time Reteaching Using Daily Spiral Math
How many of your students forget learned math skills, and you find yourself having to reteach those skills before you can progress to the next big idea? This definitely happened to me, and I really wanted to find a solution so that I wasn't in a constant state of spending days reteaching skills my ... Read More about Spend Less Time Reteaching Using Daily Spiral Math
This Day In History Yearlong Project
One difficulty I have faced teaching social studies is figuring out how to help my students connect with events from the past. I want my students to be able to go beyond just reading about historical events. I want them to be able to reflect and think about what it would have been like to have gone ... Read More about This Day In History Yearlong Project
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