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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. To start using iCivics , head over to the site's homepage and click on Teach on theft hand side bar.

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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If you don’t teach in the United States, this might be a term you aren’t familiar with. 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.”

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Guiding Students through the Crisis in Ukraine

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Here are great ideas for how to address the difficult topic of war in the Ukraine, from Ask a Tech Teacher collaborator, Christian Miraglia, recently retired from teaching after thirty-six years: 24/7. As a history teacher, I made it a priority to teach my students how to check the reliability of sources. Essential Skills.

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Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

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“Eighty-seven percent of teachers and 77% of parents agree teaching that inspires creativity has a bigger payoff for students” This according to Gallup research (To read more of the report, click here ). Kids don’t go to school just to learn classical subjects such as history, math, or geography.

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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. ABCya does not offer much help in this regard.

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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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“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.