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End of Year Review? Play Games!

Posted on May 1, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

At the end of each school year, students are restless, but they still need to be enticed to prepare for their end of year exams. In my classes, I let my students create and play games! Creating and playing games...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

Effective End of the Year Review

Posted on April 11, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

At the end of the year, there is so much content to review, but so little time. Finding effective methods for reviewing a full course can be a great challenge. This is why I created the resources I needed to...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

Teaching Prediction: Looking to the Future in the Secondary Classroom

Posted on March 21, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As a history teacher, it can be quite the challenge to teach prediction. Even more challenging can be the task of encouraging our students to look to the future and to begin living a life that can contribute to the...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

The Importance of Silence: Teaching Sensitive Topics in the Secondary Classroom

Posted on March 7, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Each year in my secondary classroom, no matter the subject I was teaching, I took the time to teach about the Holocaust. My Holocaust unit usually fell into the month of March, and with testing on the horizon, it was...Read More

The Best Teaching Advice Ever…

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

Each month, I join up with the Secondary Smorgasbord group to write a topic-related blog post. I often struggle to find my personal take on the topics and beg and plead with my friends to help me unfreeze my writer's...Read More