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Teaching high school history with picture books can enliven social studies content, advance students’ higher-order thinking skills, and help facilitate differentiated instruction.
Type: Journal article
Creating photoblogs in the social studies classroom builds on students’ interest in using images to convey messages while teaching important media literacy skills.
Type: Journal article
Enabling students to pose and answer their own questions helps them evolve from passive learners to students who are actively engaged in their coursework.
Type: Journal article
Implementing 25-minute instructional blocks when teaching online can help learners develop stronger inquiry skills and prevent the zombie-like effects of staring nonstop at a screen.
Type: Journal article
Project-based learning not only engages and fosters development in young learners, it enables them to see themselves as change agents in their communities.
Type: Journal article
Incorporating poetry into the social studies curriculum can help students develop reading and writing skills while building their content knowledge.
Type: Journal article
Even without in-person field trips, photographs stored online can stimulate enriching investigations of historic places.
Type: Journal article
Educators can get an inside look at how some classrooms have shifted to inquiry-based social studies with four documentary films featured in the The Making Inquiry Possible project.
Type: Journal article
Recent research shows that growing students’ knowledge of the world through social studies has a greater impact on literacy than increasing English language arts instruction time.
Type: Journal article
The featured lesson plan explores the history of scapegoating during epidemics and examines how politicians and media can exacerbate xenophobia.
Type: Journal article