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What Doesn't Belong and Why, a 5 Minute Social Studies Review Game

An Easy Way to Encourage Higher Level Thinking

By Stephanie's History Store on November 14, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

One of my favorite (and quick) ways to get students to do some higher level thinking without realizing it is a game I call, “What Doesn’t Belong and Why?”  I typically use this as a thematic or unit review so that students have the academic knowledge to flesh […]

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My Favorite Bell Ringer Prompts and Ideas

By Stephanie's History Store on October 27, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Disclaimer: I know bell ringers and exit tickets aren’t for everyone.  I started my teaching career not using them and now they are part of my middle school and on-level high school routine (for time reasons I don’t use them in APUSH). My first year teaching I wasn’t […]

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My Go-To Secondary Friendly Debate Prompts

By Stephanie's History Store on October 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

My students love debating each other, LOVE it.  However, they usually need practice at the start of the year defending their stance, especially if they’re middle schoolers or freshmen.  Too many times I’ve heard, “because I said so,” or in an academic debate they don’t use the right […]

Symbaloo will help organize distance learning resources for yourself and your students.

One of My Favorite Distance Learning Resources

By Stephanie's History Store on August 4, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Have you heard of Symbaloo yet?  I learned about it this past school year from our librarian and I love it!!!  Symbaloo is a website that allows you to save and organize websites into clickable boxes.  You can then email your students the link to the specific Symbaloo for […]

A Point of View Activity that’s Sure to be a Hit!

By Stephanie's History Store on May 31, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

My classroom is a primary source heavy classroom.  Sometimes we read through sources and analyze them together, sometimes my kids do it in small groups or pairs, at other times it’s an individual effort, and sometimes I even break the readings up and girls complete different tasks for […]

These are 5 of my favorite ways to use white boards in social studies!

5 Favorite Ways to Use Whiteboards in Social Studies

By Stephanie's History Store on August 12, 2018 • ( 4 Comments )

After years of thinking about it, this summer I finally bought a set of classroom white boards (my largest class is 22 this year so it wasn’t cost prohibitive).  Instead of wasting paper and prep time on my end, this year a lot of my quick warm up […]

A “Just the Facts” Social Studies Project

By Stephanie's History Store on March 14, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

As teachers, no matter the content area, we frequently find ourselves with too much to teach and not enough time to teach it all sufficiently.  That is definitely the case in my 6th grade World Geography class, so when we got to sub-Saharan Africa, I had to get creative […]

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Reinforcing Social Studies Skills–Timelines

By Stephanie's History Store on January 16, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

I don’t make my kids memorize dates for every single event.  I do need them to know the Civil War happened before WW2, that JFK was a president after FDR, and for our curriculum that the XYZ Affair happened during Adams’ presidency, but I don’t expect them to […]

Supporting Teachers After Disaster Hits

By Stephanie's History Store on October 14, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

It seems like teachers, students, and schools have been getting hit by disaster after disaster lately.  Thankfully, I am part of an amazing community at Teachers Pay Teachers and we are always coming up with ways to help out and support where we can. Tomorrow and Monday, 10 […]

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How Students Define Success

By Stephanie's History Store on September 27, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

So it’s a bit more than a month into the school year and too many of our middle schoolers (admittedly mostly 7th and 8th graders, not as many 6th graders) have already been saying: –this is too hard –why do we have to learn this –I can’t read/write […]

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