Interactive Notebooks: What They Are and What They Are Not
I just finished my first full year with interactive notebooks in my history classes. It was an experience! After a year, I feel comfortable saying YEAH for interactive notebooks mostly because my...
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The Election and the Educator
Matt LevinsonTeaching StrategiesDuring a contentious election season, a teacher's best strategy may be encouraging healthy, informed debate among students while withholding his or her own views.
View ArticleIt’s Not About the Right Answer: Using Primary Sources to Help Students Ask...
Over the past year, I had the opportunity to be part of the Digital Public Library of America’s inaugural Education Advisory Committee, helping to build a collection of one hundred free Primary Source...
View ArticleGiveaway: Free Media Resources for Middle and High School Teachers
We the Economy is a series of 20 short films that use animation, comedy, music, documentary, and scripted storytelling to demystify a complicated topic while empowering students to take control of...
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Election 2016: Lesson Plans and Digital Resources for Educators
Matt DavisLesson PlansTeach the 2016 U.S. presidential election with this curated collection, featuring lesson plans, multimedia, and interactive games for K-12 students.
View ArticleA Brief History of Time: Connecting History Students to the Present and Future
It was during one summer that I read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I had wanted to learn about the Scientific Revolution from the perspective of a theoretical physicist. In his book,...
View ArticleTeaching 9/11? Show Students "The Walk"
In my experience, I've found that, although my Missouri eighth grade students are naturally curious and eager to learn about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, many don't fully...
View ArticlePsychological Aspects That Affect the Learning Process
Excerpt from Culture Equity Model - Pedagogical Guidelines for teachers / Trainers of migrant women and women from ethnic minorities, ALMA-DC, 510658-LLP-1-2010-1-GR-GRUNDTVIG-GMP, Multilateral...
View Article50 Great Civic Action Projects
A Civic Action Project is an opportunity for high school students, in groups of 3–5, to spend a semester or more working to encourage the government (federal, state, or local) to solve a real world...
View ArticleNew Support Grant for High School Educators to Develop and Teach Civil...
The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) is launching its first ever grant program for high school educators from around the world to support development and implementation of the civil...
View ArticleImproving the Teaching of Political Literacy
Note: A version of this post appeared in the Marin Independent Journal on September 12th.I have a close friend who had Benjamin Netanyahu in his Social Studies class in Philadelphia. I tease him and...
View ArticleHow to Teach the Presidential Debate Using Common Core Standards
I’m an instructional design nerd. That basically means that I think about learning the same way a business analyst thinks about money. Instead of aiming for profits, I’m targeting minds. ≈Brains≈ I...
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5-Minute Film Festival: We The Voters
Ashley Cronin5-Minute Film FestivalInspire young people to get engaged with the political process through a timely new film series about the U.S. system of democracy, elections, and governance.
View ArticleA Brief History of Time: Connecting History Students to the Present and Future
It was during one summer that I read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I had wanted to learn about the Scientific Revolution from the perspective of a theoretical physicist. In his book,...
View ArticleTeaching 9/11? Show Students "The Walk"
In my experience, I've found that, although my Missouri eighth grade students are naturally curious and eager to learn about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, many don't fully...
View ArticlePsychological Aspects That Affect the Learning Process
Excerpt from Culture Equity Model - Pedagogical Guidelines for teachers / Trainers of migrant women and women from ethnic minorities, ALMA-DC, 510658-LLP-1-2010-1-GR-GRUNDTVIG-GMP, Multilateral...
View Article50 Great Civic Action Projects
A Civic Action Project is an opportunity for high school students, in groups of 3–5, to spend a semester or more working to encourage the government (federal, state, or local) to solve a real world...
View ArticleNew Support Grant for High School Educators to Develop and Teach Civil...
The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) is launching its first ever grant program for high school educators from around the world to support development and implementation of the civil...
View ArticleImproving the Teaching of Political Literacy
Note: A version of this post appeared in the Marin Independent Journal on September 12th.I have a close friend who had Benjamin Netanyahu in his Social Studies class in Philadelphia. I tease him and...
View ArticleHow to Teach the Presidential Debate Using Common Core Standards
I’m an instructional design nerd. That basically means that I think about learning the same way a business analyst thinks about money. Instead of aiming for profits, I’m targeting minds. ≈Brains≈ I...
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