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Three Strands, One Curriculum? Testing Whether History, Geography and Civics Actually Build on One Another

Open almost any social studies programme and you’ll find History, Geography and Civics sitting neatly in the same grade. The timetable looks integrated. The…

Why Deserts Sit Where They Do: Sequencing Physical Geography So Processes Explain Patterns

Ask a Grade 7 class to mark the world’s hot deserts on a blank map and most of them will do it well. Then…

Is Your Rubric Grading the Poster or the Thinking? Building a Social Studies Project Rubric Around Disciplinary Reasoning

A Grade 6 class finishes a project on the Silk Road. The rubric has five criteria, each worth five points: Creativity, Neatness, Presentation, Research…

Interdisciplinary Social Studies: Connecting the Curriculum to the Rest of the School Day Without Watering It Down

Picture a Grade 5 week. On Monday, students study ancient river civilisations in social studies. On Tuesday, they work on area and measurement in…

Twelve Years, or Twelve One-Year Educations? The Questions Nobody Asks

A grade 6 teacher plans six weeks on Scratch. By the end of week two, she is teaching sequencing from the start. A third…

Evidence of Learning in Computer Science: “They Did It” Is Not “They Learned It”

The badge is small. A picture, a star and a name: ICT Star. A young student earns it for finishing a step-by-step drawing activity…