Social Studies/History

Teachers in all content areas can offer students pathways to consider the roles they will play as members of an interconnected global community.

Rather than showing long videos, teachers should design lessons that use clips as resources to spur class discussion.

Adding more steps to a social studies project doesn’t necessarily make it more rigorous—there are better ways to appropriately challenge students.

These exercises can help young students care about others and work to solve real problems affecting their classrooms and communities.

Teaching students about noteworthy people, buildings, or events in your area is an effective way to demonstrate historical methods.

Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.

By focusing on research separately from writing, this assignment guides students to find quality primary and secondary sources.

Having high school students spend time reading books shows what research can be like without digital distractions—and many prefer it.

The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. Primary source documents are artifacts created by individuals during a particular period in history. This could be a letter, speech, photograph or journal entry. If you're looking to integrate social studies into your literacy block, try out one of these resources for primary source documents.