Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. We’ve seen a real shift in terms of state standards for history and social studies. Perhaps not.

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Social Studies Study History Evaluation 218

eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

While primarily a geography resource, interactive maps can be used across various subjects within the social studies domain. Teachers can integrate maps into lessons related to history, cultural studies, and geopolitics. and various base maps like Physical, Elevation, Climate Zones, Biome, Predominant Religion, and more.

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History Learning Textbooks Lecturing 286

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This innovative application allows learners to display their knowledge of history, civics, and social studies, while offering educators and parents a new way to improve student engagement, increase lesson retention, and introduce an exciting alternative to textbooks and Zoom lectures.

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Distance Learning Social Studies History Textbooks 200

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. My First Big Risk: Flipping the Script When I became a teacher, I promised myself that I wouldn’t teach from the textbook and bore my students with presentations. The period couldn’t end fast enough.

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Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 143

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Designed to offer lessons, videos, lectures, quizzes, and more that differentiate for individual students, its real power is making the resources of the most respected names in edtech available with one click. A new resource guide from Kiddom: Standards-based Grading for ELA and Social Studies. This includes: ABCYa.com.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Assignments Textbooks 79

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And then that was followed by putting me in a lecture center because my class got so big. I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. And it could easily be a four-week block that could be put into a social studies program. So you can imagine that was quite different.

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High School High School Teaching Schools 116

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest. The C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards —already half a decade old—offers a guide on how to build source skills across the grades. It’s now rare to find a textbook that doesn’t include a spotlight on key primary sources.

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History Teaching Social Studies Textbooks 129