A Teaching Blog
Vocabulary Activities Teaching Vocabulary Are you looking for a way to make learning vocabulary more enjoyable for your students? Vocabulary plays an important role in our teaching, but sometimes has a reputation for being a bit boring. It certainly doesn’t need to be that way, and there are many strategies and tools available! This post will cover five different vocabulary… Read More
How to Teach Geography Teaching Geography There are certainly many different ways to teach geography to your students (and types of geography to teach and focus on), but is the way you’re teaching working? When we were students, and even in our first year of teaching, we noticed the traditional way of teaching geography wasn’t working. Typically with geography, students… Read More
Historical Timelines One of the biggest challenges when teaching social studies is that it can be hard for students to grasp how long different time period are and how they connect to each other. We’ve found one of the easiest ways to overcome this is using historical timelines! In this post, we’ll be covering how teaching with timelines can be… Read More
Student Pen Pals One of the favorite things we ever did in our teaching was setting up pen pals for our students. We were a bit nervous at first because we didn’t really know where to start when making connections. However, after having multiple amazing experiences with student pen pals in our classes, we highly recommend it! In this post,… Read More
Teaching with GRAPES Are you an Ancient Civilizations teacher looking to add GRAPES into your curriculum? If so, you are in the right place! In this blog post, we’re going to break down GRAPES in 3 ways; what they are, how they can be helpful, and different resources we’ve used to incorporate them into our lessons. By the end of… Read More
Daily Agenda Slides Have you ever used daily agenda slides before? Before using digital agenda slides, we used to handwrite our daily agendas on our whiteboards each morning. Once we switched to digital slides, we realized handwriting the agenda was such a waste of time, not to mention that we couldn’t refer back to agendas from the previous year. With… Read More
Early American History Word Wall Have you ever used an Early American History word wall before? Word walls can be a helpful tool your students can use to remember and better understand the vocabulary words that connect with whatever historical topic you’re teaching. In this previous blog post, we’ve briefly discussed word walls, however, we wanted to give a more… Read More
Prehistory Activities Teaching Prehistory If you’re an Ancient Civilizations teacher and need some ideas for prehistory activities, you’re in the right place! We’ve compiled our top free and paid resources to help you have a successful Prehistory unit. We want to help you succeed, whether you use these as an outline or to help supplement your existing unit! All links… Read More
Ancient Rome Activities Ancient Rome Lesson Plan If you are an Ancient Civilizations teacher and need some ideas for Ancient Rome Activities, you are in the right place! We’ve compiled our top free and paid resources to help you have a successful Ancient Rome unit. We want to help you succeed, whether you use these as an outline or to… Read More
Ancient Greece Activities Ancient Greece Lesson Plans If you’re an Ancient Civilizations teacher and need some Ancient Greece activities, you’re in the right place! We’ve compiled our top free and paid resources to help you have a successful Ancient Greece unit. We want to help you succeed, whether you use these as an outline or to help supplement your existing… Read More
