Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

If the teacher wants to use games to learn history, Minecraft won’t throw students into a fully fleshed simulation of the American Revolution. It’ll start with a plot of land and students will write the story, cast the characters, create the entire 1776 world. Players have one goal: To survive. Again, think Legos.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I’ll never forget when my 5th-grade teacher had our class reenact a scene from the book "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry". They reinforced a monolithic depiction of Black life devoid of any moments of joy, hope, or success.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While the fears of cheating have definitely been legitimate, have you actually tried writing an essay using just AI? AI allows students to learn history by having life-like conversations with tech-powered versions of Socrates, Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King. Hate to say it, but the outcomes aren’t instant gratification.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Along the way, there is a heavy focus on writing. Finding time to do that work is even harder.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The history of Veterans Day is one of the most important we can share with our youth. Five ways that teachers in grades K-8 can teach about the power of service include: . A writing prompt might be: How do you currently serve your community? Having students reflect their current circumstances in regards to service.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While working with a history teacher this week, she shared how she adapted this game for a review activity in her classroom. She had her students draw images depicting their vocabulary words on one side of index cards and write the word with its definition on the other side. I thought it was a brilliant idea!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

History and Civics in American Schools is a new book that details the decline of history and civics knowledge among students — and offers a plan for how states and local school districts can foster understanding of and curiosity about our nation’s history. history and civics standards.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Typically, information presented to students is either qualitative or too broad, such as during parent-teacher conferences or through course grades. This idea is well understood in grading, but not as so in feedback to students. Concept mapping can be particularly beneficial in subjects like history and science.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2018

and state assessment data showed that 62 percent of our 907 students did not meet grade-level standards. The NWEA MAP assessments indicated severe readability issues: 19 percent of students scored at a Kindergarten or first-grade Lexile level. We are a Title I school in Riverside, Calif.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Tandem Tales: Have students begin writing a story. You can even design the story around a subject that your students are studying, such as hurricanes, animal habitats, or an era of history. RAInk the Writing: What ifour students could engage with the perspective of something that cannot talk?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you then encourage students to research topics that interest them, they’ll be even more motivated to read and write–and they may even have some fun. Helping students uncover their passions I once had a student who insisted on writing her research paper on body piercings. This novel by S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As an assistant principal in a public school in Manhattan, I have begun to use explicit instruction more in my own teaching and have focused on explicit instruction in my professional development with the history and physical education teachers I supervise.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what? It was a maddening moment of clarity for me.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Our highest passing rate ever in the history of the school was fifty-two percent before Covid. In fact, she continues, “There were a couple of kids who said they had never passed the math SBAC test in the history of their schooling, and that 6th grade was the first time.” I can’t wait to see what these students will achieve.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. In my experience of over two decades teaching civics, law and U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

The pair joined forces in 2012 after Morris, who teaches sixth grade English and History at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, Calif., Because she hasn’t taught four different grade levels since meeting Thomasson (who teaches at least one brand new class every year), there’s no “bank” of videos to pull from.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Since reading and writing is involved in every subject, they should also have all teachers trained to identify the potential indicators of dyslexia. Teachers of all subjects need to make sure they know the dyslexia indicators for their grade level. Choose the Right Tools. Ensure Proper PD.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

For example, one of our high schoolers, James, isn’t doing his assignments in World History class. Instead of focusing on World War II, she has him research the history of Air Jordan shoes. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Groundhog Day Digital Activities –grades 3-5. History of Groundhog Day –from History.com. One will be oriented around geography and one around history (such as “Kansas became a state January 29, 1861” ). Have each student write a brief description of the book(s) they suggested (no more than one hundred words).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Throughout history there has always been the suggestion that students should take “college prep” courses to gain acceptance to college. Education is moving beyond the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic and is surpassing skills assessment through standardized testing. The pedagogy. How can we prepare students for the future?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, Karen Dikson, has put together a collection of online gamified sites that will help your students with their writing: You think the textbooks for today’s generations of students are way more interesting than the once you had? You just taught a history lesson? You want your students to write better?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Throughout history there has always been the suggestion that students should take “college prep” courses to gain acceptance to college. Education is moving beyond the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic and is surpassing skills assessment through standardized testing. The grading becomes a performance level that needs to be met.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

When our school opened in 2009, only seven of our 220 students were reading at grade level; by 2013, the majority were proficient or advanced readers. My twins were in first grade. I tried to do writing lessons. My daughter wanted to write as much as humanly possible in the most elaborate ways. I tried book club.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

My classroom teachers have been so impressed with student engagement with the lock boxes that I have been recruited to help set up math, history, and science lessons using Breakout EDU. WeVideo : There are many useful video softwares available, but my district approved WeVideo and it has green screen capabilities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

One will be oriented around geography and one around history (such as “Kansas became a state January 29, 1861” ). History Research what happened the hundredth year of your home country’s existence. Have each student write a brief description of the book(s) they suggested (no more than one hundred words).

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History Schools Writing Activities 141

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Your history teacher wants you to write about the Gettysburg Address: Why not have ChatGPT give you some of the main points? The larger problem is that grading overemphasizes students’ final product of learning instead of their process of learning. If so, why? This creates scenarios in which cheating is almost inevitable.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2018

For example, the If-Then Adventure Story unit fits easily into a creative writing class, but would also be a good project for a history class where students use real events to envision alternative histories. Grades : 7-12. Price : Free. Rating : 4/5.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you experienced teachers who based report card grades on how well students complete classwork, homework, and quizzes? What is Standards-based Grading. To accomplish this, many schools and Districts have turned to Standards-based Grading. Click for a free Standards-based Grading Guide.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2017

And you can find podcasts that will work for every grade level and subject area. Grades K–6. Grades 1–6. Grades 6–12. Grades 6–12. One of the largest oral history projects of its kind, StoryCorps consists of more than 50,000 interviews from more than 80,000 participants. Wow in the World. Science Friday.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

One will be oriented around geography and one around history (such as “Kansas became a state January 29, 1861” ). Read Rosemary Well’s acclaimed book, Emily’s First 100 Days of School about the daily achievements of grade schoolers for their first 100 days. Write a 100-word story.

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History Schools Learning Writing 158

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. I am by no means a game designer.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. And perform worse on tests. This health crisis is really a civics crisis in many ways.”

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 28, 2025

This is the school-ish mindset in a nutshell: learning is hard; the point of school isn't learning, but rather earning the grades and posting the scores that lead to "promotion"; and the only way to get kids to jump through our hoops, to get where they "need to be," is through carrots and sticks. I blame the schools. I've written since 2009.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

One will be oriented around geography and one around history (such as “Kansas became a state January 29, 1861” ). History Research what happened the hundredth year of your home country’s existence. Have each student write a brief description of the book(s) they suggested (no more than one hundred words).

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