Strengthen your social justice teaching by incorporating these 5 doable and impactful project ideas into your history or civics classroom. Perfect for middle or high school.

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

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Teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. Here are 5 key trends for 2024 to help your teaching be less stressful and more impactful for your students.

Using Gummy Bears to Reinforce Different Types of Governments

Calling all middle school PTOs and PTAs: Keep the winter holidays spirit of giving going strong with community service projects specifically for tweens and teens.

Over the past few years, I have been incorporating inquiry circles into my classroom through Social Studies and Science. Inquiry circles are a lot like most research projects. I would say the main difference is how they start. NOW AVAILABLE… One Stop Teacher Memberships Our grade-level memberships provide the BIGGEST savings on ALL One […]

Service can be integrated into regular classroom lessons. Here are 10 easy service projects for schools or classrooms to take on.

These debate activities and lesson plan ideas are perfect to use in your upper elementary or middle school classroom this presidential debate season or anytime! These tips, tricks, ideas, anchor charts, topics, and how to implement debate guide will help your students be debating different topics successfully in no time! Click to read my best strategies for debates, persuasive writing and opinion writing to foster collaboration and speaking and listening skills. Click to the blog post!

Guest blogger Aaron Kaio describes his middle school students' experience with Civic Mirror, an online program that has creatively engaged them in learning about government, law, economics and citizenship.