Adults may wince at painful childhood memories of penmanship lessons and spelling tests. A small but growing number of studies, though, suggest that systematically teaching handwriting and spelling ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best social studies lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught bad lessons and we’ve all taught good ones. This ...

The state on Friday released the latest recommendations for the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, notably expanding Asian American studies and an appendix to offer sample lessons on several ethnic ...

The social studies curriculum provides many opportunities for highlighting ethical issues. Through reflections on history, students can critically explore ethical topics including the factors that led ...

In this lesson, students consider what qualifies as a national emergency and decide how much power presidents should have. By Natalie Proulx Students react to news that Britain plans to enfranchise 16 ...

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Lesson Plans for high school and middle school include language arts, history, and science. Curricula in the language arts, social studies, and science tie content with character education. Both free ...

We are honoring the Top 10 winners of our Student Open Letter Contest by publishing their entries. This one is by Peter Philpott, age 16. By The Learning Network In this lesson, we walk students ...