Social studies middle school

Teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. Here are 5 key trends for 2024 to help your teaching be less stressful and more impactful for your students.

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".

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.

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.

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

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 moments I remember the most were the creative ones. I vividly remember making salt maps of the state, book report mobiles, models, papier-mâché globes, interactive brochures, puppets, and dioramas. What about you? Are the instructional moments that you remember the most tied to creative activities? There's just something so powerful about hands-on learning with…

5 engaging activities for teaching about prehistory, early humans, and the stone age for upper elementary and middle school social studies. Prehistory projects, activities, reading passages, worksheets and more! Includes a fun cave painting activity on the Lascaux caves! History graphic organizers, printable worksheets, reading lists, and social studies activities for kids included. Great for ideas for your Ancient History curriculum.

Kick off your school year with map and globe skills ! What middle school social studies classroom doesn’t cover map skills? Since map skills are a basic concept covered in middle school social studies, you'd think it would be easy to find resources for it. However, most of the resources out there a

An overview of six easy ways to make the best use of interactive notebook activities in your classroom. Includes activities like stations, webquests, textbook readings, and more!

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