Social Studies
At the End of the Road: How We Change
Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, place, and change. The City sprawled on the other ...
Navigating Climate Change on a Bike: Riding Through Fire Season
Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, place, and change. We just wanted to sleep in. But ...
How Google Classroom Prevails in a Post-Covid Landscape
How many of us have a notebook or at least one Post-It(s) somewhere in our office with a password written down for online access to something? According to a new study (2021), BetaNews.com reports that 57 percent of American employees are cur ...
Biking the Pacific Coast: People, Place, and Change in a COVID World
Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, place, and change. We were biking a towering cliff ...
The New Social Studies Classroom: Making the Most of Distance Learning with Exciting Digital Resources
Learn how to engage your students from your laptop to theirs when you can't be together in the classroom. Explore approaches to online resources in core social studies programs to engage your students while inspiring their curiosity and igniting thei ...
Meeting Social and Emotional Learning Needs – A Critical Part of College and Career Readiness for High School Students
311 days. Never would I have guessed on March 16th, 2020 that our then ninth grader would go 311 days without being in the same physical space as her peers and her beloved teachers. While she values the college and career preparedness high school of ...
Field Learning and Gamification in the Age of Virtual Reality
Join National Geographic Explorer and NASA Challenger Center Teaching Fellow T.H. Culhane as he describes his expeditions around the world to "bring sustainability home". T.H. has met people from the poorest villages and urban slums to the richest en ...
Teaching Human Geography and Sustainability Through Storytelling
Join National Geographic Explorer Lillygol Sedaghat as she describes her expeditions around the world to study how approaches to sustainability have changed how people live. Lillygol will describe her experience in Taiwan, a country with an advanced ...