Ideas for Increasing Interest & Engagement
Useful Tips for Teaching Social Studies
9 SEL Activities that Promote Global Citizenship & Global Learning
From addressing climate change to promoting world peace and security, it’s crucial that the next generation is prepared and equipped with skills to work together with other cultures and nations to solve common global challenges.
We’ve rounded up some of our favorite standards-aligned lessons to help you bring these global topics to your students, while fostering social and emotional learning!
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Learning is Better with PenPal Schools
Teachers looking to go beyond think-pair-share and jigsaw readings for student collaboration can try PenPal Schools projects and connect students with same-age students from around the world. With over 25 constantly updated pre-made projects available at any given time, it's highly likely that teachers will find one that meets their content needs.
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Best Global and Cross-Cultural Education Apps and Websites
Use these global perspective and cross-cultural education tools to raise the stakes of learning, creating authentic learning opportunities that build empathy and broaden students' perspectives.
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The Content-Free Social Studies Classroom
James Kendra explains that social studies is the most important class students take in school - but not when the emphasis is on facts and dates.
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How to Motivate Students to Love Social Studies?
If you feel your students are not as engaged as you would like them to be, use the following teaching strategies to tap into their interests and help improve their chances of academic success.
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5 Ways to Teach Social Studies Without Textbooks
This blog post suggests many different ways to teach social studies without using the textbook.
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50 DIY Projects for Teaching Social Studies
This website provides some search tips, ideas for implementing DIY in your lessons and a huge list of DIY projects to get you started.
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Tips and Tricks for Engaging Students in Social Studies Instruction
Here are some tips and tricks from teachers that can be used to make Social Studies more interesting and engaging.
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13 Unexpected and Fun Geography Lessons to Enhance Your Curriculum
This article provides a list of activities and lessons that are related to Geography, which could be incorporated to make the lesson more fun.
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Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes
Rachel Langenhorst puts together a list of favorite digital tools for the social studies classroom and shares with educators.
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Bring your lessons to life with Expeditions
Introduce your students to a new way of learning with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Download the Expeditions app to get started.
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