Social studies middle school

Helping students think about their future is important. If teaching job skills is a goal in your classroom, then check out these activities!

When I was in middle school, I had many teachers who killed this subject for me. But it can be truly engaging and fun! Some ideas: ➡️Interactive slideshow lessons ➡️Incorporating music into your lessons ➡️Center activities ➡️Boom™ cards Want to know more? Read my blog post, "Engage Your Students: Fun Social Studies Activities for Middle School".

5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Use these fun history activities for middle school in your Grade 7 History and Grade 8 History classes as well as your Grade 6 Social Studies program. These engaging history activities are also useful for your middle school history classroom. Try these ideas with your 6th grade social studies, 7th grade social studies and 8th grade social studies students. Read about 13 ways to make middle school history class engaging for your students.

Kick off your school year with map and globe skills ! What middle school social studies classroom doesn’t cover map skills? Since map skills are a basic concept covered in middle school social studies, you'd think it would be easy to find resources for it. However, most of the resources out there a

No more boring social studies lectures! Read here for easy ways to use interactive lessons for social studies classes to improve engagement.

Fur trade teaching ideas for social studies. Perfect for teaching about Canadian History, New France, and the Hudson's Bay Company.

Guide to using Social Studies Simulations to step away from the lecture podium and engage your students with hands-on history activities.

I have several test review games that are NO prep (or very, very little prep) and super simple. My middle school students need a review game because we all know that “silent study” time is not often effective. I need these game to be very little prep (for obvious reasons), and I need them to be real

An overview of the social studies worksheets available for middle school classrooms with the Students of History curricula and lesson plans.