Category: Social Studies

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Increase classroom engagement with choice boards

Here are some ideas for creating choice boards for your students to help engage them in research and give them control over their learning.
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Empathy Project: Using Book Creator to facilitate cultural dialogue

How do we help students develop empathy and become productive global citizens? Michael Hernandez suggests creating books that focus on interviews and portraits to help connect students to other people and cultures.
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Why publishing for social good will help your students connect learning to the real world

Michael Hernandez has some ideas to share about creating assignments that give students a wider purpose for learning.
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Teach Digital Citizenship with Book Creator

Do you teach digital citizenship to your students? This new ebook can help you get to grips with promoting creative digital citizenship in your classroom.
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Teaching SEL with Book Creator

Here’s the latest addition to the Using Book Creator in the Classroom series. This book focuses on Social-Emotional Learning, and is written by Dr. Monica Burns.
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15 Social Studies projects – free ebook

Here’s the latest in our series of digital books written by teachers. This time, Dr. Monica Burns outlines lesson plans covering the social studies curriculum.
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A Book Creator book with a Hollywood twist

Ysgol Pen-y-Bryn school in Wales have a history of creating fantastic projects. James Williams, Enterprise Co-Ordinator, tells us about their latest project, the 11th book in their library.
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2nd Graders use Book Creator to share their family history with grandparents

A very experienced Book Creator Ambassador shares her project – look out for her top tips at the end of the article!
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