Category: Integration
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Study more Black History
Sticking with the traditional people such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, or Harriet Tubman is all well and good. Their stories are important, interesting, and essential to American history. But world history teachers need something different for their classrooms. Adding more Black history doesn’t necessarily mean adding more Black American history. World […]
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Integrated Elementary Math and History
Math and History really do belong together. Get a look at the new design of this TpT resource.
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Sight Words are for High School Social Studies Too!
Sight words are not just for elementary school! When I see the phrase sight words it is always for an elementary school level product on Teachers Pay Teachers. The lists are full of what I call “real words.” Go. She. Had. Was. Take. Look. Here. Every one of those words is a high frequency word […]
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Integrating History and Government
Short and sweet but no less accurate. Why is American democracy an amazing thing? A history full of psychos, sociopaths, and morons who exercised absolute power is the answer. When a country was fortunate to get a good leader, things were good. Government ran well, the people prospered, and there was peace. Absolute power does […]
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History and Geometry: The Odd Couple
I began a many part series last week defining Integrated Social Studies. In no uncertain terms every social studies subject needs to be taught together in order to have the biggest learning impact but that doesn’t mean you can’t integrate other subjects. Geometry might not seem to be a natural fit for social studies, specifically […]
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What is Integrated Social Studies?
In graduate school, we discussed social studies as a field of study. Our professor drew an umbrella on the whiteboard. My professor then wrote the other social studies subjects under each spine of the umbrella. The discussion that ensued was enlightening and I was surprised at how many people in my class looked at each […]
Integrated Social Studies 