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Reaching Today’s Students (and CCSS) with Today’s Resources

Posted on September 30, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Teachers face great challenges as they try to create or find resources to address the ever-changing standards for their ever-changing students. In addition to finding the resources, rising costs and other teacher financial obligations often keep teachers from accessing the...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

Teaching Perspective and Point of View in Social Studies

Posted on August 19, 2013September 9, 2023 by Michele Luck

Welcome to my series on Teaching the Standards in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom! I hope this series will help you address the standards while being able to keep the course your own. In this post, we will focus on...Read More

Surviving, Thriving, & Building Community in the First Days of School

Posted on August 16, 2013July 5, 2021 by Michele Luck

Surviving the Back to School rush and the rest of your 280+ days to come begins with advanced planning, thorough preparation, and skillful implementation starting well before the very first days of school. But more important than anything else...Read More

Teaching Text Structure in the Social Studies Classroom

Posted on August 12, 2013September 9, 2023 by Michele Luck

Welcome back for more on Teaching the Standards in the Social Studies classroom! In this post, we will address text structure. Historically, it was left out of our lesson agendas. However, the importance of students understanding text structure has come...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 the Cause and Effect Standard in Social Studies

Posted on July 29, 2013September 8, 2023 by Michele Luck

What Is Teaching Cause and Effect? New standards across the states now use mystifying words and complex phrasing to state the obvious sometimes. This is the case with one standard we see in every state standard: Analyze in detail a...Read More

Back to School Common Core eBook on TpT!

Posted on July 27, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Knowing that teachers are headed back to school, and stressing about the implementation of the Common Core Standards, a bunch of TpT sellers have teamed up to bring you the Common Core Back-to-School eBooks! eBooks are divided by subject area...Read More

Curriculum Mapping The Easy Way!

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

One of the most feared responsibilities for new teachers, or even teachers changing courses, is preparing the dreaded curriculum map. In the ole days, we taught with lesson plans, knowing the big picture, but unsure about when we would get...Read More