Social Studies/History
Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop in the social sciences.
Turning Students Into Bold Historical Thinkers
By collapsing the distance between historical eras and the present day, we motivate students to ask hard questions and dig deeper into the past.493How to Teach Black Resistance Beyond Black History Month
High school students can learn about Black Americans’ fight against social and political oppression throughout the school year.How to Teach History in a Culturally Responsive Way
History is complicated, but teachers can approach it by leading with truth and advocating for empathy.283Using Place-Based Learning to Explore Immigration History
High school teachers can give students a chance to gain insights into their community by exploring the nuances of immigration patterns.162Designing Interdisciplinary Units in Elementary School
This eight-step framework can help teachers create units that integrate science and social studies with math and English language arts.331Building Students’ Background Knowledge With Station Rotation
Station-based book study can help build students’ background knowledge for a unit as they survey content before direct instruction.571Nurturing Changemakers With an ELA Project
One way to help students master skills is to let them cultivate their own English language arts content to explore. Here’s how.371Teaching Jewish History and Culture
The Jewish experience is not limited to the Holocaust; here are some ways teachers can expand what they teach students about Judaism.172Inquiry-Based Tasks in Social Studies
Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.10.2kHow to Engage Students in Historical Thinking Using Everyday Objects
Asking students to examine their own possessions from the perspective of a historian in the future helps them sharpens their analytical skills.3.8kFrom Debate to Deliberation
Debate has a place in middle and high school classrooms, but it can be divisive. Collaborative deliberation is non-adversarial and encourages sharing of diverse perspectives.256A Stunning Educational Video Game Brings Students Inside Thoreau’s ‘Walden’
High school students can explore core ideas like self-reliance and civil disobedience as they read ‘Walden’ and engage in the game.1.2kExploring Social Justice Issues Through PBL
The open-ended work in project-based learning can help students explore issues that matter to them.4.4kCulturally Responsive Ways to Teach the History of Thanksgiving
These resources can help middle and high school students learn about the first Thanksgiving and Native Americans today.9256 Free Online Resources for Primary Source Documents
The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. Primary source documents are artifacts created by individuals during a particular period in history. This could be a letter, speech, photograph or journal entry. If you're looking to integrate social studies into your literacy block, try out one of these resources for primary source documents.14.7k