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How-To Do a Scavenger Hunt in Your Classroom

Posted on June 20, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Scavenger Hunts come in a variety of formats and can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom. Unfortunately, this often means we are overwhelmed with how to use them most effectively in our classrooms with our students....Read More

How-To Make Archeology Digs Content-Strong

Posted on June 13, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Many engaging classroom activities are fun, but are they content-strong? Do they encourage skills practice that will help students learn at a higher level? Can they involve critical thinking or analysis skills that will foster continued growth in the student's...Read More

How-To Use Topic Cards in Your Classroom

Posted on June 6, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Are you working toward giving students more autonomy and independence in your classroom? Have you used Topic Cards for your Genius Hour projects? Or are you stumped on how to use generic resources for complex learning? Here's a simple how-to...Read More

How-to Create a Walking Tour in Your Classroom

Posted on May 30, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Want to make your classroom more interactive, but don't know how? Start with Walking Tours! Walking Tours get your students up moving around the classroom, provide them all the content on a topic in a visually appealing manner and encourage...Read More

How-To Use Quiz Cards for More Interactive Assessments

Posted on May 23, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Need new, creative ways to assess student learning? Try using a Quiz Card Activity! Here's the simple how-to: Select questions to provide a complete assessment on the content taught. Create quiz cards or purchase them ready-made. If cards are not...Read More

Traveling from the Classroom

Posted on April 25, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Toward the end of the school year, student focus can be a great challenge. I always found that my students started looking more through the windows than they did toward the board as the spring months rolled around and summer...Read More

Teaching in the Springtime!

Posted on April 18, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Believe it or not, students do still have the capacity to learn in the springtime! Even after testing! Even when the calendar warns of summer on the horizon and the crisp, clean breezes are blowing through the windows. For me,...Read More

Teaching Geography IS Teaching History

Posted on April 4, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Over the weekend, I spent countless hours listening to many teachers discuss their struggles with getting students to understand some historical topics, especially those involving location-specific events. This led me to ask how many of those teachers started their courses...Read More

Prepping for the Testing: Practicing Skills in the Social Studies Classroom

Posted on March 28, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Whether we like it or not, testing season is approaching all of our schools and will eventually take over our classrooms once again. While we can discuss the harm of over-testing until we are blue in the face, our students...Read More

The Importance of Similarities: Teaching Modern Issues in the Secondary Classroom

Posted on March 14, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

At the secondary level, students are often aware of modern world events and issues as they step into the classroom. Along with that knowledge often comes questions and concerns, and sometimes confusion and anxiety. Yet teaching modern issues in the...Read More