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

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Examples of featured curriculum units include: Foundations of Government, Legal Reference Library, Road to the Constitution, Influence Library, Civil Rights, Citizenship and Participation, News Literacy, International Affairs, Government and the Market, Geography Library, Persuasive Writing, and many more. These include: 1.

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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. Make use of geography tools such as Google Maps or the history of Ukraine in maps found on the Washington Post site, as many students do not have a sense of the expansiveness of the world.

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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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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Subjects covered include history, physics, psychology, chemistry, computer science, life sciences, mathematics, geography, education, business, law, environment, energy, and many more. JSTOR JSTOR is a research and academic platform that provides access to over 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

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Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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