Teaching Students to Write Constructed Response Questions in Social Studies

Today’s blog post addresses a topic that all Social Studies teachers just LOVE thinking about… testing. I know, I know, I’m just kidding. I know that none of us went into teaching to think about or obsess over testing. However, given that it can make up such a big part of our year, I find […]

The Monthly Roundup – Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews

Welcome back to another Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews – the monthly link roundup where I post my best Social Studies related finds from the internet and discuss all that I’ve been up to in the past month. Below is my list for August 2023. You can find all of the previous Monthly Roundups here.) Ahh, September […]

The Monthly Roundup – Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews

Welcome back to another Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews – the monthly link roundup where I post my best Social Studies related finds from the internet and discuss all that I’ve been up to in the past month. Below is my list for July 2022.  I feel like some of you have already returned back to […]

The Monthly Roundup – Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews

Welcome back to another Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews – the monthly link roundup where I post my best Social Studies related finds from the internet and discuss all that I’ve been up to in the past month. Below is my list for May 2022. (There are some affiliate links in this post.) With the hot […]

The Monthly Roundup – Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews

Welcome back to another Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews – the monthly link roundup where I post my best Social Studies related finds from the internet and discuss all that I’ve been up to in the past month. Below is my list for April 2022. April 2022 was an eventful month for me personally. I […]

The Monthly Roundup – Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews

Welcome back to another Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews – the monthly link roundup where I post my best Social Studies related finds from the internet and discuss all that I’ve been up to in the past month. I can’t believe I took these pictures at the beginning of March, but I very much did. […]

Teaching About Political Cartoons and Bias though Irish History

(This post contains an affiliate link.) Every year, I have the chance to share a little bit of Irish history with my students. It’s a simple little lesson in many ways, but it always stands out as one of my favorite moments of the year.  The lesson I created came about after I read How […]

The Monthly Roundup – Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews

Welcome back to another Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews – the monthly link roundup where I post my best Social Studies related finds from the internet and discuss all that I’ve been up to in the past month. February was a month of refocusing and rebalancing for me. I’ve found that as much as I […]

The Monthly Roundup – Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews

Welcome back to another Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews – the monthly link roundup where I post my best Social Studies related finds from the internet and discuss all that I’ve been up to in the past month. (It’s still freezing outside, but I picked an image that has the appearance of warmth.) Loves and […]

The Monthly Roundup – Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews

Welcome back to another Loves, Links, Reads, and Reviews – the monthly link roundup where I post my best Social Studies related and teacher finds from the internet, and discuss all that I’ve been up to in the past month. Loves and Links RPG Playground – I found out about this website this past month, […]