Teaching history and social sciences
Travel with students doesn’t have to be a one-off field trip. Principal Karen Spencer built a grade-by-grade plan — a sixth-grade overnight, Boston for STEM in seventh, D.C. in eighth, …
Her students secretly nominated her for NH Teacher of the Year. Megan Philbrook shares project-based social studies ideas students never forget — student-filmed history plays, Revolution podcasts, and civic engagement …
Virtual field trips include with resources, objects, lesson plans, and even escape rooms. Learn about one of these websites, the Museums for Digital Learning.
Defined Learning is a fantastic way to bring project-based learning to every grade level and subject area. Some teachers (and students) are great at coming up with meaningful project ideas …
With free financial literacy courses for high school and middle school, social-emotional learning, and digital literacy classes, today we highlight six ways you can help students learn real-world skills. Right …
Educator Morgan Green is an idea machine. Here she gives us the ways she’s working to improve her classroom this upcoming semester. This timeless advice will help all of us …
You can blend old fashioned relationships with modern edtech if you know how. Teacher Dustin Harnish proves it. Dustin Harnish teaches seventh-grade social studies with Spheros, 3d printing, and engaging …
Mike Messner teaches seventh-grade social studies in Silicon Valley. He shares his stories of the tech they use, what Silicon Valley parents like (and don’t like), and how he has …
Education needs to be relevant and exciting to students. The Disney Youth Education program hosted me at the end of this past summer to experience three of their programs first-hand. …
