An overview of six easy ways to make the best use of interactive notebook activities in your classroom. Includes activities like stations, webquests, textbook readings, and more!

This pacing guide for your American History curriculum plans out the whole year for your middle school or high school class. Perfect for US History Part 1, 2, or the whole thing.

Do your students thrive on competitive games? Are you looking for competition games for your classroom? Check out this blog post!

Do you need warm up ideas? I want to share 3 warm up ideas for social studies classes with you. These are engaging and easy to implement!

As Social Studies teachers, we understand the significance of a robust vocabulary in enhancing students' comprehension and critical thin...

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These ideas may help you teach inquiry-based lessons in your Social Studies classroom. They offer suggestions and resources for inquiry in history.

Engage your students with this super fun social studies activity that integrates art and literacy and makes a great end of year review! Students will think critically about their chosen or assigned historical figure, time period, or major event as they apply their knowledge to design a custom hoodie. Before getting started with the design process, students can read a short article or view the included PowerPoint presentation to learn about the 3,000 year history of hoodies and their design.

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).

Happy August! We got home from our six day road trip last night, and now it’s time for me to buckle down and start thinking about BACK TO SCHOOL. Our first teacher work day is August 17th, so I’m less than two weeks away now… In honor of that, I thought I’d bring back “Teaching Tuesday”...Read More »