Chop it up, Highlight it! Getting the most out of your Studies Weekly Print Editions

If your students are just reading our Studies Weekly Social Studies newspapers or magazines each week, they are missing out on so many other experiences.

We love our products so much and we love the teachers who help create our lessons. We also love coming up with new classroom strategies for using our publications.

We design our print products to be very hands-on and fully consumable.

(And, no, we don’t mean your students will enjoy munching on them for lunch!)

Your students should be interacting with the information text right on the publication — highlighting facts, vocabulary, or the main ideas and supporting details; marking up timelines; or answering questions.

When we say consumable, we mean cutting out our images for a 3D Graphic Organizer or an interactive notebook. Or using our Primary Source Analysis Tool (found in your Teachers Edition, or at Studies Weekly Online) to observe, reflect and question the source right there on the paper.

Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can also use them for project-based learning, and create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. When students make artifacts, they own their learning, articulate their thinking, and tap into creativity and organizational thinking skills.

On every weekly publication, we include learning activities your students can do right on the publication — vocabulary crosswords, writing prompts, inquiry strategies and ‘Think and Reviews’.

But that’s not all.

You can get additional training and activity ideas in the Training Tab at Studies Weekly Online.

Additionally, we have a great Facebook community of public school teachers and a great Facebook Homeschool community who all share their own Studies Weekly projects and lesson plans as well.

For updated lesson plan ideas and activities, review your printed Teacher Edition or online at online.studiesweekly.com