Easy-to-use tips for planning an engaging and memorable first lesson of the year for your Middle School Social Studies class whether you are teaching digitally or in-person, plus an awesome lesson idea for your first day teaching 6th grade, 7th grade, or 8th grade. #socialstudies #middleschool #socialstudieslesson #distancelearning #backtoschool

As a kid in school I loved when my teachers celebrated creativity in the classroom. In fact, when I reflect on my own education, the moment...

When I was in middle school, I had many teachers who killed this subject for me. But it can be truly engaging and fun! Some ideas: ➡️Interactive slideshow lessons ➡️Incorporating music into your lessons ➡️Center activities ➡️Boom™ cards Want to know more? Read my blog post, "Engage Your Students: Fun Social Studies Activities for Middle School".

Use this one simple question to help bring inquiry and historical thinking into your Middle School Social Studies classroom.

Guide to using Social Studies Simulations to step away from the lecture podium and engage your students with hands-on history activities.

Looking for some engaging, high-quality history lessons? Then check out my favorite free US history lessons for middle school!

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!

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!

Don’t you wish there was one reading strategy that would unlock the secret to Social Studies reading comprehension? In a perfect world, there would be. Instead, we teachers continuously strive to find and learn new ways to help our 3rd-grade students improve their reading comprehension of Social Studies content. In this post I share a few activities that you can use to improve student success with Social Studies materials. See how this would work in your Social Studies & Reading classroom he

Use these fun history activities for middle school in your Grade 7 History and Grade 8 History classes as well as your Grade 6 Social Studies program. These engaging history activities are also useful for your middle school history classroom. Try these ideas with your 6th grade social studies, 7th grade social studies and 8th grade social studies students. Read about 13 ways to make middle school history class engaging for your students.