Archives for Social Studies
Making Dragons to Celebrate Chinese New Year
What better way to end our unit on Ancient China than with a special Chinese New Year celebration? And because 6th graders are of an age that they love bigger ...
Colonial Embroidery Project
Every other year when I teach American History and my unit on colonial life, I like to have my students put together an embroidery project. I start by giving them ...
Students Make a Colonial Feast
Last week I told you that I would give a full report on how cooking colonial recipes with my students went. (You can read more about how this project got ...
A Tasty Lesson in History
This past Friday I took our lesson on colonial life to our taste buds by sharing some excerpts from the book Food and Recipes of the Thirteen Colonies.
'Although the colonists were ...
A Revolutionary Way to Learn History
Today was my first day back to school after the Christmas break, which went a little longer than scheduled due to the cold front and extra lake effect snow that ...
Cardboard Models of Historic Jamestown
My class is continuing their study of American History this week with a lesson on the Jamestown Colony. Always wanting to make my lessons hands-on, I had students work together ...
Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada
Recently my students and I have been reviewing the exciting story of Britain's first attempt to establish an English colony in the Americas. We know that colony as the Lost ...
Teaching History Note Taking
Our first lesson about America's colonization this week was about Roanoke, the lost colony. While reading my students the story from Brooke Coleman's Roanoke: The Lost Colony, I asked them to ...
Picture That! Re-enacting Scenes from American History
As I prepare for the upcoming year, I know there is one project I definitely want to do again. The last time I taught American History my students and I ...
Silhouettes of Greek Olympic Athletes
As the year winds down having art class and using a lot of materials can be daunting. Let’s admit it, we just don’t want to drag everything out AGAIN! But ...