We all want students to experience authentic, meaningful learning within the classroom. To that end, project-based learning (PBL) is an effective teaching method. PBL focuses on what students learn more than what teachers teach, as Diana B. Turk and Stacie Brensilver Berman explained in their January/February 2018 Social Education article, “Learning through Doing: A Project-Based Learning…
Susan Cro uses Studies Weekly publications in a unique but important setting. As Cro explains, she is “a homeschooling Nana.” She teaches three of her grandchildren, ages 8, 10 and 11. Susan Cro and her husband Susan Cro’s grandchildren studying “All three have VERY distinct learning styles, and are all moving at very different speeds…
Studies Weekly is continually improving and growing. As a company, we are dedicated to updating and improving our products to better serve teachers and students. For example, we were extremely excited to roll out our Google Integration recently, as we know how time-saving that is for teachers. We are also prototyping a 7th and 8th grade…
As your students analyze and ponder history, are they tapping into the feelings of people in the past? We do students a disservice when we distance them from historical experiences through detached instruction. At Studies Weekly, we live by the motto: “Standards Inform, Stories Inspire.” We wholeheartedly believe that sentiment. While all our curriculum is…
We are all part of a digital world, but sometimes internet interactions bring out the uglier side of humanity. Today, there is a profound need for digital citizenship education. As part of the social studies curriculum, educators already teach children citizenship in our nation. In prior generations, this teaching included how to function in the…
Thinking on Education: Teaching Civil Disobedience Updated Nov. 10, 2022 ◊ Karissa Neely Joan Trumpauer Mugshot As we teach history, one of the many important ideas from the world’s shared history is the use of civil disobedience to motivate change. This is sometimes a tricky concept for younger children, because they are so ingrained with…
Studies show we all read more today than in previous generations. While printed books and magazines are still a part of our lives, much of our reading consumption is digital. While technology innovation allows education to reach many students more efficiently, some educators worry that it is also limiting some students’ skills. At the forefront of…
William Shakespeare’s works may be more than 400 years old, but their messages still resonate today. Even after all this time, Shakespeare’s characters and themes still live within each of us, as Maggie Trapp, a UC Berkeley Extension instructor pointed out in a January 2018 Berkeley “Voices” blog. And his wordplay and characterization both entertain,…
As educators all around the nation celebrate women’s roles in history this month, we want to highlight a few unique female contributions as well. STEM education — or the emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math — is a hot topic in the industry. Tech leaders in every state are working towards coding and computer…
Growing up, Kristin Wolfgang didn’t dream of being a teacher. But now she doesn’t dream of any other career. Before heading into the classroom, Wolfgang worked at Borders Bookstore. She heard about a part-time Kindergarten teacher position and tried it out. Her fellow teachers asked her to lead small groups in reading. “And I was…