Middle school social studies

As a kid in school I loved when my teachers celebrated creativity in the classroom. In fact, when I reflect on my own education, the moment...

Get your students thinking like a historian from the get-go with these tips and ideas for your first Social Studies lesson of the year.

When I was in middle school, I had many teachers who killed this subject for me. But it can be truly engaging and fun! Some ideas: ➡️Interactive slideshow lessons ➡️Incorporating music into your lessons ➡️Center activities ➡️Boom™ cards Want to know more? Read my blog post, "Engage Your Students: Fun Social Studies Activities for Middle School".

Guide to using Social Studies Simulations to step away from the lecture podium and engage your students with hands-on history activities.

Use these fun history activities for middle school in your Grade 7 History and Grade 8 History classes as well as your Grade 6 Social Studies program. These engaging history activities are also useful for your middle school history classroom. Try these ideas with your 6th grade social studies, 7th grade social studies and 8th grade social studies students. Read about 13 ways to make middle school history class engaging for your students.

Use this one simple question to help bring inquiry and historical thinking into your Middle School Social Studies classroom.

How to use interactive notebook pages in your social studies classes, including different strategies for ability levels and free pages to download.

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Great blog post on how to best use interactive notebook pages in your social studies classroom! Great tips and pages for 5th grade, middle school kids, and even high school students!

Use more primary sources in your Middle School Social Studies lessons with these four simple mindset shifts. #socialstudies #historyteacher #iteachmiddleschool

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An overview of the social studies worksheets available for middle school classrooms with the Students of History curricula and lesson plans.

Oral Project Freebie for Middle School Social Studies teachers to use in their classrooms.

Don’t you wish there was one reading strategy that would unlock the secret to Social Studies reading comprehension? In a perfect world, there would be. Instead, we teachers continuously strive to find and learn new ways to help our 3rd-grade students improve their reading comprehension of Social Studies content. In this post I share a few activities that you can use to improve student success with Social Studies materials. See how this would work in your Social Studies & Reading classroom he

Have you been looking for a way to make vocabulary more fun and engaging for your students? Look no further than these 5 no-prep Vocabulary Activities!

When we think of learning “centers”, we often think of a kindergarten classroom with big tables, tons of crayons/glue/scissors, and total commotion. If you are a middle school teacher, think again. Using social studies center activities can be done easily, and without a ton of stress or mess! More importantly, centers can make your content come to life. Read my blog post, "Social Studies Center Activities for Middle School".

Using primary sources to teach history can be challenging. Use these valuable tips to bring more primary sources into your teaching.

If you have 10 minutes left in your social studies class and don't know what to teach, you will love these creative social studies teaching strategies!

This FREE Oral History resource makes it easy for teachers to implement an engaging Middle School Social Studies Project.

An overview of the engaging resources for Geography, Civics, World, or US History that are all included with a subscription to Students of History.