eSchool News
MAY 1, 2025
In a corner of Huffman High School, the sounds of popping nail guns and whirring table saws fill the architecture and construction classroom. Alabama state law previously required students to take at least four years each of English, math, science and social studies to graduate from high school.
eSchool News
APRIL 11, 2023
As Tax Day approaches, Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors media-rich content to teach key concepts about taxation in the United States. More than 100,000 users from throughout the United States have signed up for Certell’s Poptential family of free social studies courses.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 1, 2017
In fact, this question has become the cornerstone of my personal educational philosophy, and a guiding principle for my team of high school social studies educators at Fairfax County Public Schools. It’s a question I often ask myself and educators in my professional network. They shouldn’t.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
There are lots of different ways that high school students earn college credit, but one of the most powerful is also one of the least known. It took me wading in and really examining how the course modules aligned with my own Social Studies curriculum to figure out how to incorporate it best.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 8, 2021
Lately, I’ve concentrated on social studies. I chatted with my PLN, browsed forums where I knew efriends hung out, and taught a slew of online grad school classes to teachers who always are willing the discuss their newest favorite social studies tech tool. Like social studies. Timeline JS.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 27, 2020
Before I get into how edtech enhances social studies lessons, let’s ask a foundational question: What the heck is Social Studies ? According to Brookings , roughly nine percent of educators consider themselves social studies teachers. There are lots of social studies-oriented games and simulations.
eSchool News
JUNE 1, 2021
As a social studies teacher who spends a lot of class time poring over comic books with students, it’s been gratifying to see the attitude about comics in education shifting over the last decade or so. I’ve spent about a decade as the chair of the social studies department at Wissahickon High School, where I teach grades 9-12.
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