Update your Social Studies classroom decor cheaply and easily with fun and useful decor. Make your classroom fun and inviting for students.
Get your students thinking like a historian from the get-go with these tips and ideas for your first Social Studies lesson of the year.
Guide to using Social Studies Simulations to step away from the lecture podium and engage your students with hands-on history activities.
Do you need warm up ideas? I want to share 3 warm up ideas for social studies classes with you. These are engaging and easy to implement!
Don't Decorate - Design! It is back to school time, and teachers all across the US are frantically putting up posters and bulletin boards to decorate their room before the first day of school. But instead
This single classroom procedure has made a HUGE difference in my experience teaching middle school. My first year teaching I didn't do this and I knew that something needed to change. I decided to put into a place a daily bellringer for every one of my classes. I am a Family Consumer Sciences teacher so I teacher 4 different classes!You can call it whatever you want to call it but I call it a bell ringer because my students are expected to be doing it as soon as the bell rings to start class.Her
Use this one simple question to help bring inquiry and historical thinking into your Middle School Social Studies classroom.
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Hey thanks for stopping by! It’s so great to meet you! I'm Mister Harms and I teach junior high and high school social studies in a small-town school. During the summer months, when I'm not teaching, I enjoy helping lead a youth camp that focuses on life transformation. My family
Make these simple mindset shifts to start using more primary sources in Middle School Social Studies.
My husband is one of the best teachers I know. I can verify this because I hear, “MR. BIBLE IS MY FAVORITE TEACHER !!!” every time my own students figure out we are married. I could get jealous, but mostly I just get proud. That’s why I set out to surprise him with a world ... Read More about Middle School World History Classroom: Inspiration for a small and windowless classroom
Well it took almost a full school year, but thanks to a professional development I went to, I found a review technique ALL of my 7th graders were on board with. I call it “True, False, Fix.…
There are so many different directions you can go when decorating your social studies or history classroom! I have scoured the internet and Pinterest to curate this list of perfect social studies classroom decor! Everything is linked just for you! General Decorating: Standards Posters and Compu
Fun virtual field trips in the Social Studies classroom can make your lessons more engaging and content-filled! Try these suggestions!
If you are on the hunt for bell ringers for 6th-grade history to activate and assess student learning, then you have come to the right place!
As a kid in school I loved when my teachers celebrated creativity in the classroom. In fact, when I reflect on my own education, the moment...
Using primary sources to teach history can be challenging. Use these valuable tips to bring more primary sources into your teaching.
Do your students thrive on competitive games? Are you looking for competition games for your classroom? Check out this blog post!
Kick off your school year with map and globe skills ! What middle school social studies classroom doesn’t cover map skills? Since map skills are a basic concept covered in middle school social studies, you'd think it would be easy to find resources for it. However, most of the resources out there a
Warm and inviting decor matters beyond elementary school!
The first week of school, before you even begin to teach history, is more important than most teachers realize. It can make or break your year. Unfortunately, it is the week most beginning teachers have
These 13 classroom forms for your middle school classroom will make a huge difference in your classroom organization...
Practical tips and advice for asking the right questions to build differentiated, inclusive, and inquiry-focused lessons for your middle or high school students.
These engaging, science-backed activity ideas are a must for you high school social studies classroom. - Let's Cultivate Greatness
Teaching Geography is one of the best Social Studies gigs to get! There are so many amazing resources for teaching the course, and fun strategies for teaching Geography are also unlimited. Follow this Quick Tips for Teaching Geography Series to learn those strategies for your classroom! Quick Tips #1: Quick Start Ideas Starting class in […]
You will love these creative classroom decor ideas for social studies teachers or history teachers! Check out this list of 10 different ideas for...
Learn how to use social studies political cartoons to increase student engagement. Includes link to a free political cartoon analysis activity!
Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.
Homeschool middle school history and have a fabulous time with the amazing tips!
So, are you itching for winter break to get here or what?!? I am drowning here, people! Between report cards, conferences (for my students and my own kids!), shopping, baking, parties, wrapping... DROWNING!Don't get me
If you want to up your Google Slides presentations, click above. These Google Slides hacks will make your classroom presentations polished and interactive.
My husband is one of the best teachers I know. I can verify this because I hear, “MR. BIBLE IS MY FAVORITE TEACHER !!!” every time my own students figure out we are married. I could get jealous, but mostly I just get proud. That’s why I set out to surprise him with a world ... Read More about Middle School World History Classroom: Inspiration for a small and windowless classroom
Well it took almost a full school year, but thanks to a professional development I went to, I found a review technique ALL of my 7th graders were on board with. I call it “True, False, Fix.…
