Social Studies/History

This eight-step framework can help teachers create units that integrate science and social studies with math and English language arts.

High school students can learn about Black Americans’ fight against social and political oppression throughout the school year.

By collapsing the distance between historical eras and the present day, we motivate students to ask hard questions and dig deeper into the past.

Station-based book study can help build students’ background knowledge for a unit as they survey content before direct instruction.

The Jewish experience is not limited to the Holocaust; here are some ways teachers can expand what they teach students about Judaism.

One way to help students master skills is to let them cultivate their own English language arts content to explore. Here’s how.

Students deepen their understanding and build a sense of community by engaging with their peers’ reasoned arguments.

Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.

A new study shows that when implemented well, AP courses built around project-based learning can raise test scores for all students, including those in traditionally underserved demographics.

Debate has a place in middle and high school classrooms, but it can be divisive. Collaborative deliberation is non-adversarial and encourages sharing of diverse perspectives.

ChatGPT and other AI tools complicate how teachers think about student writing and how they teach academic integrity.

Researchers in Michigan showed that project-based learning in high-poverty communities can produce statistically significant gains in social studies and informational reading—see how they did it in this video.

These resources can help middle and high school students learn about the first Thanksgiving and Native Americans today.

High school students can explore core ideas like self-reliance and civil disobedience as they read ‘Walden’ and engage in the game.

Black History Month isn’t only about pain—it can be a full-fledged celebration of accomplishments that have shaped America.