If you want to brighten up your Social Studies teaching, look into the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum on Main Street (MOMS) traveling exhibition, which, according to its website (...
To follow up on last week’s posting, I want to introduce you to the Federation of Illinois Independent Colleges and Universities’ Teaching With Primary Sources project. This project, which is funded by a grant from the Library of...
One of the ways to enliven your Social Studies teaching is to build your lessons around primary sources. The good news is that the Library of Congress’ American Memory collection houses hundreds of thousands of primary documents, as well as...
Let’s have a conversation about what we do when we teach Social Studies (or History, or Geography, or whatever)? On the one hand, there are the Illinois Learning Standards, which lay out pretty clearly what the state thinks we should do:...
At a time when it seems to many of us that our civil rights are under siege, it seems to me appropriate for teacher to revisit – and revisit with zeal – the whole issue of the Bill of Rights.
One site –...
Need additional resources to use during Black History month – and the rest of the year – to strengthen your focus on Black History?
There’s an excellent list of “Do’s and Don’ts” for teaching Black...
I'll be moderating this section and look forward to seeing your posts. I'll assume we're interpreting "Social Science" broadly and the concept of "teaching" equally broadly. So, post at will!
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