7th grade social studies

The first week of school, before you even begin to teach history, is more important than most teachers realize. It can make or break your year. Unfortunately, it is the week most beginning teachers have

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.

Learn how to use social studies stations in the Middle & High School classroom to increase student engagement. Includes link for a free station activity!

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.

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Are you looking for ways to make your social studies lessons more engaging? Want to get your students out of their seats? A Gallery walk is a meaningful activity to add to your social studies units.

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

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!

Do your students thrive on competitive games? Are you looking for competition games for your classroom? Check out this blog post!

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Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.

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25 best ideas about Declaration of independence on from declaration of independence worksheet , image source: www.pinterest.com

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

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...

I've read about choice menus forever, but never tried it until just recently. I decided to created a menu to use during social studies review when students finish with stations early or we have a few extra minutes in class. I introduced the menu a week ago and you would've thought I'd given my students gold! They were thrilled!! I asked if they'd seen a menu before and we talked about a fast food restaurant menu. Then I asked what they would buy if I told them they had $5 to spend at the…