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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

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iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. 5- Debequest DBQuest 'guides students through the examination of major questions in civics and history utilizing primary sources.

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” In MS and HS, it expands to cover science, mathematics, civics, economics, and maybe geography.

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Guiding Students through the Crisis in Ukraine

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This became increasingly important over the past decade as social media became the primary source for news. I also utilized the Civic Reasoning curriculum, which focused on developing critical thinking skills to navigate social media and news. It was not uncommon for a class to start with a comment, “Did you see …?”

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Fun Math Games to Help Students Practice Math Concepts and Skills

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Although its title indicates otherwise, Cool Math Game website is not limited to only math challenges, it also offers mini-games spanning different subjects and content areas including memory games, jigsaw puzzles, science games, geography-based games, classic games, among others.

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Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

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Kids don’t go to school just to learn classical subjects such as history, math, or geography. Let’s take polygons as an example – children learn about this geometric concept throughout their primary years. They also need to understand how to be social, how to create connections, and how to develop their creativity.

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“We need to radically reform the national curriculum, but that’s not going to happen overnight.”

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“We need to radically reform the national curriculum, but that’s not going to happen overnight.”. So why is climate education left solely to geography and science teachers? At the moment, students receive 13 hours of explicit climate education across the entire primary and secondary sphere. Published: May 16, 2022.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

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Having said that, teachers (in particular primary) are already being pressured with an increasing array of outcomes they must address. Tech Ed Resources for your Class–K-8 Keyboard Curriculum. More on keyboarding: Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning? Keyboarding 101.

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