As states pass character education initiatives, though, they incorporate such education
in social studies classes rather than in math and science, to devote more time for tested content areas.
For another fifty minutes a day, half of my students are in
social studies classes run by exceptional teachers recently trained in teaching literacy skills using history textbooks.
For U.S. Virgin Islands's English language arts, science, and
social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.
Driving on the Right Side of the Road The DRSR program has created a series of lessons for
social studies classes at the elementary and secondary levels that focus on citizenship education and traffic safety.
The DRSR program has created a series of lessons
for social studies classes at the elementary and secondary levels that focus on citizenship education and traffic safety.
The school said it was not actually recommending that students opt out of the Islam portion
of social studies class, which is actually reportedly a pretty tiny part of the curriculum, but it said that it recognized that some parents are irrational bigots «some curriculum topics are sensitive and we work with our parents to work through these respective issues.»
By Friday afternoon on the fourth day of the final week of session, both chambers had the desultory air of a high school
social studies class on Senior Skip Day.
Members of North Rockland High School's Chorus, Band and Orchestra performed several patriotic songs, while hundreds of students from the high school's
social studies classes observed.
Niskayuna High School Election Gallery Walk focuses on the issues and the candidates As America goes to vote on Nov. 8, kudos to
senior Social Studies classes for the election gallery walk they developed in the high school library, helping build awareness of the candidates and issues involved...
As I had learned in a
Teaching Social Studies class, the manner in which Standards are integrated could be the difference maker that allows instructors to cover both important content and required Standards.
Improving content acquisition and comprehension in general
education social studies classes for English learner and non-English learner students with disabilities.
At first I thought this would affect science textbooks and the theory of evolution, even though it's fact and not even a theory, but it also ends up
affecting social studies classes.
Seventh and eighth graders in Deirdra
Grodes social studies classes study the existence of slavery in colonial America and its role in the Civil War.
However, I really fear with the Common Core approach which seems to have everyone teaching the same on the same day and no time for variation from the lesson, that
social studies class just won't have the time to do these activities, many of which the kids really enjoyed and got some sparked to learn more about the topic.
Seventh graders in the second
period social studies class at Bennet Middle School got to flex their debating muscles during a debate on the war in Iraq.
In a Trinidad
Garza social studies class, Engelhart recalls how a teacher introduced her students to robber barons — unethical American businessmen in the late 19th century, and later big businesses throughout the 1930s and 70s: «I want you to read this information about the robber barons, and then write down two questions: one about a fact that you don't understand and what you need to know about it, and a thinking question: How?
In a report released this week, a state task force called for a revival of civics education, transforming it from «an afterthought» — an
undervalued social studies class — to a core element of community engagement and learning in all grades.
At Mooresville Middle School he walks into a seventh grade
social studies class where the laptops are on, but no one is working alone.
In a 6th - grade
social studies class recently, students used collaborative user - made web sites called wikis to access and respond to in - class and homework assignments.
Alex's work is informed by over fifteen years of professional experience working with and in public schools, and in particular by what she learned from her students and her colleagues while teaching
untracked social studies classes at Berkeley High School.
In light of this study's consistency with the larger cooperative learning research base, we conclude that Jigsaw, as modified (i.e., Jigsaw II), tends to produce higher levels of academic achievement than conventional whole - class, noncooperative instructional procedures in
secondary social studies classes.
Another exemplary model is the Social Justice Education Project (SJEP), which
leads social studies classes geared toward Latinx students in three public high schools in Tucson, Arizona.
As with other renewable energy installations at schools, the Pavegen system doesn't just provide energy, but also educational opportunities: the system itself displays data on the energy being produced (which kids apparently find fascinating), and the company's even developed educational materials for incorporating information from the system into science, math, and
even social studies classes.
Taught eight classes, sixth grade US history and science, fifth grade world history and science, second grade social studies, science, English, and reading, and a project
based social studies class.
Growing up in New England, I have fond memories of walking in rustling leaves, apple picking, and watching as the maple tree outside Mr. Marshall's
social studies class window turned beautiful fiery shades of red, orange and yellow.
For Nebraska's English language arts, science, and
social studies classes with a mix of student abilities or diverse student populations, Pro is the differentiated literacy solution that provides true equity of access and accelerates reading gains for all students — all in a single classroom.
Facing History developed a two - week introductory unit for students in 6th
grade social studies classes in Memphis and Shelby County public schools.
At first, the students were skeptical about these topics being a part
of social studies class but once they started researching and discovering the linkages, they got into it.
ORLANDO — Lee - Anne Spalding's Elementary
School Social Studies class at the University of Central Florida (UCF) had spread out over the room in small groups.
A few years ago I even had a non-speaking paraplegic boy in a wheel chair who was on a breathing respirator sitting in my regular
education social studies class.
I remember sitting in
that social studies class at 13 years old and feeling rage.