Social Sundays: End of Year, Summer Days and New Ideas
End of Year: My one piece of advice for the end of the year is to not to let it escape without meaning. The end of the year is your last chance to make an impression on your students' futures. Make it count! Here are some of my favorite ways to end the year as well as teacher-saving tips for making next year easier today:
- Essential tips from teachers for rocking the end of the year.
- Strategies to calm the end of year chaos.
- The best gift I have ever given my students at the end of the year.
- Learning from our students at the end of the year.
- End of year projects for social studies.
- End of year why do we study history project idea.
Summer Days: This summer I will polishing off some new curriculum for next year including AP government as well as taking many long days to play. The summer is a precious commodity to rejuvenate. I can't wait to read some new books and enjoy the tastes of the season. For a little inspiration for your own summer, check out some of my favorite historical fiction and non-fiction, best reads, and ideas for ways to rejuvenate in the summer.
Preview of Social Sundays 2018-2019: Many of you participated in the Thank You giveaway a couple of weeks ago and generously told me what you would value reading about. With your comments in mind, Social Sundays will largely feature ideas for teaching specific topics and units as well as ideas that can be used across topics.
If there is a specific topic or unit that you would like more ideas for teaching, let me know in the comments section below. AND if you can't wait until next year, you can read posts on the following topics already on the blog:
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The Bill of Rights
- MesoAmerica Unit: the Maya, the Inca, and the Aztecs
- Women's history month
- The Harlem Renaissance
- Black History month
- The 1960s
Cheers,
Doc
Social Sundays is a bi-weekly post sharing tips, ideas, resources, and products for teaching social studies. If you have questions or think there is something I should share, you can leave me a message in the comments below or at the store in the question and answer section.