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43+ Strategies for Addressing the Standards in Social Studies

Posted on July 12, 2017September 9, 2023 by Michele Luck

Need Strategies for addressing the standards? Need strategies to make your classroom more interactive this school year? Take a look at these 43+ Strategies for Meeting ANY Educational Standards in the Social Studies classroom. More importantly, implement these strategies to...Read More

Meeting the Standards in the Social Studies Classroom #10: Reading

Posted on September 22, 2013September 6, 2023 by Michele Luck

Finally, we reach the last standard (this one on reading) in this series on Teaching the Standards in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom! To keeps things simple, I will continue to reference the NCSS and CCSS standards, but keep in mind...Read More

Teaching the Standards on Data and Comparison in Social Studies

Posted on August 26, 2013September 9, 2023 by Michele Luck

We are almost to the end in this series on Teaching the Standards in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom. Now we tackle two in one! Teaching the standards on data and comparison actually go well together. It only makes sense...Read More

How to Teach the Vocabulary Standards in Social Studies Classes

Posted on August 5, 2013September 9, 2023 by Michele Luck

This is part of my continuing series on Teaching the Standards in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom! In this post, we'll focus on what strategies will work best for teaching the vocabulary standards from a Social Studies perspective. While we...Read More

Teaching Standards on the Use of Primary Sources

Posted on July 15, 2013September 7, 2023 by Michele Luck

Standard 1 in most curriculums call for the following: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources. This should not be a challenge in a Social Studies classroom. Unfortunately, many classrooms in the past fell dependent...Read More

Keeping Up with the Standards

Posted on March 4, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As the school year navigates its final curve, many teachers begin to look toward the end, and they can often miss that last stretch of the road. From Spring Break through testing season, and into the final days of school,...Read More

Five Reasons to Use a Simple Unit or Lesson Plan

Posted on November 22, 2022December 18, 2022 by Michele Luck

Organization is everything. Along those lines, planning for your classes is the organization that can make a huge difference in success or failure for you or your students. These five reasons to use a simple unit or lesson plan will...Read More

Empathetically Teaching the Holocaust in the Social Studies Classroom

Posted on April 4, 2022March 5, 2022 by Michele Luck

So often today, teachers find their lessons structured strictly to state standards. Of course, following state standards is important. But, sometimes the requirements overlook or skip over important content. For examples, standards do not mandate that we teach the Holocaust....Read More

Simple Ways to Teach Current Events Without Stressing Students Out

Posted on March 21, 2022March 5, 2022 by Michele Luck

There is a delicate but necessary balance between updating students on current history and stressing them out. Students, while ready and even eager to learn, can become overwhelmed with current events of today that are stressful, scary, or fear-inducing. While...Read More

Make Learning Inquiry Easy for Your Elementary Students

Posted on March 7, 2022February 18, 2022 by Michele Luck

With so many states adding Inquiry-Based Learning to the standards, it is imperative that we start teaching in ways that will facilitate this skill for our students. But it seems like a hard task to take on, especially in the...Read More