Social studies include history, geography, economics, civics and sociology. These are important concepts for being a good citizen.

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If you have 10 minutes left in your social studies class and don't know what to teach, you will love these creative social studies teaching strategies!

Try something new in Geography and World Cultures class. Have students create a one-pager assessment to highlight key features for each of the five themes of Social Studies (Geography, History, Economics, Government, Culture).

Social Studies websites for teachers. Love this list of social studies websites for elementary teachers! TheAppliciousTeacher.com

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How to use interactive notebook pages in your social studies classes, including different strategies for ability levels and free pages to download.

Check out my favorite time-saving social studies resources that you can use with any unit or lesson in the elementary grades!

After years of thinking about it, this summer I finally bought a set of classroom white boards (my largest class is 22 this year so it wasn’t cost prohibitive). Instead of wasting paper and prep time on my end, this year a lot of my quick warm up and review activities will be white board…