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November 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Our latest MiddleWeb Substack describes some power moves teachers can use to launch their lessons.
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Always Start Class with a Power Move
Like wrestlers in a match, teachers and students need to get off to a strong start. How we begin the lesson can make all the difference.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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This approach to introducing a new unit encourages higher-order thinking and helps students see the content’s relevance to their lives. 🧠 Give it a try!

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Setting Up an Engaging Launch for a New Unit in Middle School
By encouraging students to think deeply at the beginning of units, teachers can help them see why the material is relevant to their lives.
edut.to
October 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
mrnfhaines.bsky.social
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies #GCED #service-learning I believe in the value of service-learning and GCED. I've been trying to figure out how to do these things well for many years. However, sometimes it's good to take a open-eyed critical view: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/a-criti...
A Critique of Global Citizenship Education in International Schools — PRAXIS Education
I’ve been trying to figure out how to do global citizenship education (GCED) and service-learning — and how to do it well — in two different international schools for about 13 years. Recently, I’ve ha...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
nsweezeyedu.bsky.social
In today’s Jeopardy test review…

Question: What was the motto of the French Revolution?

Student answer: Liberté, égalité, skibidé

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October 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
edutopia.org
Next time you launch a new unit, try this: engaging students with big, exciting themes instead of going straight to vocabulary! @amirtaron.bsky.social explains how. 🚀

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Setting Up an Engaging Launch for a New Unit in Middle School
By encouraging students to think deeply at the beginning of units, teachers can help them see why the material is relevant to their lives.
edut.to
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
erbeckman.bsky.social
Exciting! Looking forward to listening to this.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
mrnfhaines.bsky.social
#climateeducation #EduSky #iteachsocialstudies I was going through some old files this weekend and came upon this project that I did with students during Covid. I thought I'd write it up and post it. Take a look: www.onteachingandlearning.com/blog/an-exam...
An Example of Climate Education, Project-Based Learning — PRAXIS Education
I distinguish between project-based learning (PBL) and project-based assessment. I have regularly used project-based assessment in my classes, often trying to make them as authentically real-world as ...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
mrnfhaines.bsky.social
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Powerful discussion here. Compromise is a necessary part of democracy and we’ve probably lost the value of it. But what about when we compromise our values themselves? Tough conversation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 09/28/2025 · 1h 9m
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October 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
edutopia.org
Get ready to turn your students into justices, advocates, and informed citizens as they navigate real court cases! 🧑‍⚖️

Here’s how to sharpen students’ critical thinking and communication skills with moot court.

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Sharpening Students’ Communication Skills With Moot Court
Get ready to turn your students into justices, advocates, and informed citizens as they navigate real court cases.
edut.to
September 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
edutopia.org
Using moot court to teach social studies allows students to analyze real-life topics and formulate strong arguments about current issues!

Educator Spencer Burrows shares a how-to guide. ⚖️

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Sharpening Students’ Communication Skills With Moot Court
Get ready to turn your students into justices, advocates, and informed citizens as they navigate real court cases.
edut.to
September 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
ajpthomas.bsky.social
when i teach appeasement of hitler pre-wwii i use “if you give a mouse a cookie” as my analogy. if you give a dictator the rhineland, he’s going to ask for austria. my students get it. no one should give up the cookie. #iteachsocialstudies
vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Sep 19
The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.

This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
daniellaurison.bsky.social Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · Sep 19
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
September 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
mrnfhaines.bsky.social
#EduSky #iteachsocialstudies #TOK #IBDP Thanks to Religion Matters for giving me the opportunity to write up some thoughts that I've been mulling around for a few years. Check it out: religionmatters.org/2025/09/19/t...
The Case for Incorporating Religion into Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Courses
Guest Post: Nathan Haines, Secondary Social Studies Teacher in the U.S. and East Africa A few years ago, I was one of several teachers teaching the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) course at an Internatio…
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September 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
mrnfhaines.bsky.social
www.economist.com/finance-and-... #EduSky #EconTeachers #iteachsocialstudies Interesting read here. In what way is it helpful to think of human attention economically? Does relative scarcity apply? Should we consider it a factor of production? Can our attention be stolen?
Can you make it to the end of this column?
Understanding the new economics of attention
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September 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
edutopia.org
Lights, camera, action! 🎬 Why one teacher swapped end-of-year exams for a moviemaking project in her middle school social studies class:

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A Moviemaking PBL Experience Brings History to Life
Middle school students can create short films to demonstrate learning, bringing historical events such as the Boston Tea Party to life.
edut.to
September 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
captminarika.bsky.social
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On 9/11, A Reflection on Division and Our Shared Responsibility (A Facebook Post)
I do not express my views often on social media, but scrolling through my Facebook feed during an early lunch on this solemn 9/11 anniversary, I’m struck by something deeper: nearly every post is abou...
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September 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
middleweb.bsky.social
We're reading this 9/11 essay by middle school history teacher Lauren Brown – at her Substack. #edusky #iteachhistory #iteachsocialstudies

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Teaching about 9/11: History and Memory
And whether it is the job of a teacher to teach empathy
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September 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
edutopia.org
Moviemaking is a great way to get kids engaged in middle school social studies! Teacher Irene Fusilli shares a guide. 🎥

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A Moviemaking PBL Experience Brings History to Life
Middle school students can create short films to demonstrate learning, bringing historical events such as the Boston Tea Party to life.
edut.to
September 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
erbeckman.bsky.social
I enjoyed this short podcast on the meaning of "Asia." Worthwhile of folks who #TeachWorldHistory or geography. #sschat #iteachsocialstudies
www.historians.org/podcast/big-...
Big Asia
A Martian lands on Earth and asks the question, “What is Asia?” What kind of response would they get? We explore this question with historian Nile Green.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
erbeckman.bsky.social
I agree with folks posting this important article on the "the dangerous logic of abdication." I appreciated the granular look at the fall of the Weimar Republic. #ITeachSocialStudies #SSChat
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Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
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August 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
edutopia.org
Want a classroom full of engaged and curious students, eager to think deeply and know more? “This is the promise of an inquiry approach to social studies, and staging lessons has a lot to do with making that promise a reality,” says educator Matthew Bornstein-Grove. ⭐

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Using Staging Activities in Social Studies to Build Engagement
Effective staging lessons help make a new unit seem relevant to students and also set the stage for critical thinking.
edut.to
August 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
edutopia.org
Make a new social studies unit seem relevant to students *and* set the stage for critical thinking! 💭

How? Using staging lessons! Here’s a guide.

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Using Staging Activities in Social Studies to Build Engagement
Effective staging lessons help make a new unit seem relevant to students and also set the stage for critical thinking.
edut.to
August 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
katiemcenaney.bsky.social
Super excited to dive into THE BRIGHT AGES: a new history of Medieval Europe! Thanks so much, @profgabriele.com .

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A copy of the book THE BRIGHT AGES: a new history of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry. It's being held in front of a blurred background with medieval images and a poster from the Bayeux Tapestry.
August 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
edutopia.org
Here are 4 resources you can use to bring social studies to life with data: edut.to/4oxzkGp

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“Bringing hard social science data into the classroom is imperative for having students think critically about the world. Teaching them how to compare, question, analyze, and represent data is not just a math or science skill. Once students realize that data helps lawmakers, policy experts, and governments make decisions, they know they can also use it to start making their own decisions about the world.” —Danica Derksen, Leadership and Social Studies Teacher
August 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM