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13 Colonies Narrative Chain
Brain research shows that neurons that fire together wire together. When teaching concepts we want students to remember, it’s important to give them different ways to store those concepts in their long...
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Opportunities
Colleagues in social studies, Just want to offer a few things for you to peruse for opportunities for growth and development. The opportunities include information about the Kansas Social Studies...
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Five Standards, Three Birds, and One Great Lesson
Travis Hardenburger is a seventh grade Kansas history and geography teacher at Wamego Middle School. He is working on a great presentation for the Kansas Council for History Education’s annual meeting...
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Sweet Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic lesson plans and instructional goodies
Are you looking for some sweet Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic instructional goodies? Here’s what I’ve got: Start with the basics Official Olympic site Official Sochi 2014 site NBC Olympic site. Be sure to...
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A Very Cool Website & Some Fun Ideas
I teach my methods students here at KSU to “constantly think about teaching.” To do this, we always look for things to use even for small parts of lessons. A picture to promote thinking, a quote to...
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The NPS is 100 and giving away free stuff
With the end of the school year arriving, now is the time to plan your summer vacation. The National Park Service can help! The Park Service was established on August 25, 1916 and is celebrating its...
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Literally #FindYourPark with free maps!
On August 26, the National Park Service celebrated its 100th anniversary and as one part of the celebration, we’re asking you to “Find Your Park”. The NPS now has over 400 sites across the nation that...
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Using Gapminder’cool data to create compelling questions
Gapminder is an organization promoting sustainable global development by encouraging the use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development...
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New Google Earth. Great! And . . . meh.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you that I am a huge Google Earth nerd. I love geography. I love maps. I love Google. It’s a simple formula. A + B = C. Maps + Google = Google Earth nerd. So...
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Increasing student engagement through place-based education: The Flint Hills...
Guest Post: This month we have a guest post from Anne Wilson, Map Program Coordinator for the Flint Hills Map and Education Program. As teachers, we often hear students lament: “What does this have to...
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Kansas Day is on the way!
This post is a little late but I’ve been hibernating; I hope you’re all keeping warm. If you’re using the cold weather day (wouldn’t it have been easier to post what schools stayed open?) to plan ahead...
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(Pull It, Twist It, Bop It) Flip It: Blended Learning in the Social Studies...
The tired stereotype of the history teacher at the front of the room lecturing from bell to bell, droning on about nothing but names, places, and dates, and never noticing the kids sleeping in the back...
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I Can’t Count That High: PBL in the Social Studies Classroom
One of the new initiatives in my school district during the 18-19 school year has been to begin a Project Based Learning community. This is a group of teachers who came in over the summer for two full...
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Ready, Set, Social Studies! Get ready for the conference!
Planning is underway for the 2019 Kansas Social Studies Conference! We hope that social studies teachers currently part of the profession, pre-service teachers planning to enter the profession, and...
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Old or new, maps are cool. Two new ones you need to explore
Can you ever have too many maps? The obvious answer is no. You can never have too many maps. So when I ran across some very cool old maps last Saturday at the Wichita Flea Market, there really wasn’t...
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Kansas Day is on the way!
This post is a little late but I’ve been hibernating; I hope you’re all keeping warm. If you’re using the cold weather day (wouldn’t it have been easier to post what schools stayed open?) to plan ahead...
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(Pull It, Twist It, Bop It) Flip It: Blended Learning in the Social Studies...
The tired stereotype of the history teacher at the front of the room lecturing from bell to bell, droning on about nothing but names, places, and dates, and never noticing the kids sleeping in the back...
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I Can’t Count That High: PBL in the Social Studies Classroom
One of the new initiatives in my school district during the 18-19 school year has been to begin a Project Based Learning community. This is a group of teachers who came in over the summer for two full...
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Ready, Set, Social Studies! Get ready for the conference!
Planning is underway for the 2019 Kansas Social Studies Conference! We hope that social studies teachers currently part of the profession, pre-service teachers planning to enter the profession, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Old or new, maps are cool. Two new ones you need to explore
Can you ever have too many maps? The obvious answer is no. You can never have too many maps. So when I ran across some very cool old maps last Saturday at the Wichita Flea Market, there really wasn’t...
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