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The strategies are listed in alphabetical order. 

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The 3-2-1 Document Analysis strategy is a simple yet effective tool for helping students engage with and reflect on primary or secondary sources.

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The purpose of alternative assessments is to foster meaningful learning and honor diverse talents. Learn more about it!

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An A-Z review is a creative and structured way to help students review and reinforce key concepts, terms, or events from a unit of study.

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An Anticipation Guide is a teaching strategy designed to engage students and active prior knowledge before they dive into new content.

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Class discussions in a social studies classroom are vital for enhancing student engagement with information and learning of new material.

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Curated Research Papers (CRPs) help teach students how to analyze and interpret information, fostering critical and historical thinking skills.

 

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Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Questions allows students to formulate questions at the different domains related to Webb's DOK. The process promotes critical thinking and analysis.

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Predicting allows students to engage in critical thinking and processing. This step before the "Do First" ensures students take guesses using key information, pictures, and texts. 

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Document analysis is a cornerstone of social studies education, offering numerous benefits that enhance students' skills and learning.

 

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The Write and Draw strategy is an engaging, student-centered approach often used in social studies classrooms to help students process information.

 

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The duo grouping strategy ensures that every student has an equal chance of working with different classmates, fostering a sense of inclusion. 

 

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Formatives assessments are a powerful way to measure how your students are progressing towards identified learning objectives (Additional Video).

 

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The Four Corners Activity is an interactive teaching strategy that gets students up and moving, thinking, analyzing, and collaborating.

 

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The Frayer Model is highly effective for teaching vocabulary in a social studies classroom because it goes beyond simple memorization.

 

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A gallery walk is an activity where students move around the classroom, engaging with various displays of information, artifacts, or student work

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The "Give One, Get One" activity is a collaborative classroom strategy that fosters idea sharing, peer learning, and critical thinking.

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Graphic organizers are visual tools that help support students to structure, analyze, and understand information (Additional Video).

 

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The inquiry journal is used throughout the lessons provided by Thinking Nation and encourages critical thinking, reflection, and questions. 

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The Inside/Outside Circle strategy promotes interactive learning fostering engagement, movement, and collaborative thinking.

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The jigsaw strategy is an effective cooperative learning technique that promotes collaboration, critical thinking, and deeper understanding.

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The "Levels of Questions" activity integrates with Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) framework to hel students develop questions. 

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The Notice, Wonder, Think learning strategy is an inquiry-based approach that encourages students to engage deeply with a topic, image, text, or historical event.

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Notetaking is a crucial skill that helps students organize, retain, and understand complex information.

 

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A personal narrative is a form of writing that tells a story from the writer’s own life, allowing for deep self-expression. In history, personal narratives play an important role. 

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The pair-share strategy is an effective - research-based -approachto engage students in active discussion and communication in the social studies classroom.

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The Quick Write strategy is an instructional method used to engage students in short, focused writing tasks to support thinking and class discussions of new material. 

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The Quote Analysis method helps students engage deeply with primary and secondary sources. This strategy encourages critical thinking and historical inquiry.

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The rainbow highlighting strategy uses a color-coded system to help students in highlighting text-based evidence in complex reading material. 

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The Reduce it! strategy is a highly engaging activity allows students to read, summarize, and identify key vocabulary. It can be used with any text across all subject areas.

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"Say it in Six" is a teaching strategy where students are asked to summarize a concept, idea, or story using only six words. Great for getting students to think!

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The Silent Discussion is a structure and strategy that is effective in promoting critical thinking, written communication skills, and meaningful reflection.

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Socratic Seminars are a form of student-centered discussion that promotes critical thinking, collaboration, and deep exploration of ideas. Learn more by watching. 

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Hard history isn’t just about teaching painful truths—it’s about empowering students with knowledge, critical thinking, and the ability to engage with history.

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Timelines are storytelling tools that bring history to life and help students see the connections between events, issues, and ideas. They are visually appealing! 

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The Triangle, Square, Circle exit slip strategy helps students process what they learned during the lessons in a low-stakes manner. Great way to help students process what they have learned. 

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A WebQuest is an inquiry-based learning activity where students use online resources to explore a social studies topic. 

 

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This "What do I do next?" method will help you proactively address this issue of early finishers and classroom management in social studies. 

 

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Tweets are a great way to synthesis and summarize information. Learn how they will be used throughout the units with your students. 

 

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The "You be the Judge" learning strategy  helps students develop historical empathy, critical thinking, and evidence-based reasoning by engaging in evaluative discussions.

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