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Actively Learn Social Studies
Grades 3鈥12
Actively Learn Social Studies offers compelling, ever-expanding content designed to maximize student learning and inspire students to think critically, ask questions, and practice civil discourse on their way to becoming future-ready citizens.
Social Studies is a difficult topic for middle school students. Actively Learn made it so much easier to see where my students were struggling.
Drive Deeper Learning with Actively Learn Social Studies
Actively Learn Social Studies聽brings social studies to life by inspiring students to explore the subject in new ways. With its rich, standards-aligned content and powerful student scaffolds,聽Actively Learn Social Studies聽is one of the most valuable digital learning platforms available to social studies teachers today.
Drive Deeper Learning with Actively Learn Social Studies
Actively Learn Social Studies聽brings social studies to life by inspiring students to explore the subject in new ways. With its rich, standards-aligned content and powerful student scaffolds,聽Actively Learn Social Studies聽is one of the most valuable digital learning platforms available to social studies teachers today.
Provides Rich Social Studies Content and Features
Actively Learn Social Studies offers a full suite of resources to cover core topics in social studies, including U.S. History, Ancient World History, and Modern World History. All lessons include embedded instruction and reading supports for students to boost engagement and drive deeper learning. Key features include:
- Informed by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and aligned to state standards
- Lessons that support teaching the College, Career, Civic Life (C3) Framework
- Rich readings that engage students in the dynamic time periods and topics of social studies
- Compelling questions that prompt thinking and discussion are embedded in every assignment
- A diverse collection of standards-aligned social studies content, including articles, videos, DBQs, primary sources, and more
Supports and Empowers Social Studies Teachers
Actively Learn Social Studies is known for being an engaging, student-friendly interactive learning platform, but it鈥檚 also a powerful instructional tool that gives teachers the resources they need to accomplish more without doing more. Here are some examples of what teachers can do with Actively Learn Social Studies:
- Import online science articles, videos, PDFs, Google Docs/Slides, and more
- Customize existing instruction to meet student needs
- Edit existing instruction, add margin notes, media, and images聽聽
- Add and edit questions, change question types, reorder questions
- Customize articles, videos, simulations or explainers
Supports and Empowers Social Studies Teachers
Actively Learn Social Studies is known for being an engaging, student-friendly interactive learning platform, but it鈥檚 also a powerful instructional tool that gives teachers the resources they need to accomplish more without doing more. Here are some examples of what teachers can do with Actively Learn Social Studies:
- Import online science articles, videos, PDFs, Google Docs/Slides, and more
- Customize existing instruction to meet student needs
- Edit existing instruction, add margin notes, media, and images聽聽
- Add and edit questions, change question types, reorder questions
- Customize articles, videos, simulations or explainers
Gives Social Studies Students Greater Agency
Student agency is a hot topic in education today. Actively Learn Social Studies promotes student agency by providing a broad range of content, so that students have more choices in terms of what they learn. It also gives them greater control of their own learning. With Actively Learn Social Studies, they can鈥
- Highlight words for a dictionary to provide vocabulary support
- Add and respond to annotations in the margin
- Communicate with teachers and students about assignments in real time
- Use the text-to-speech feature for audio support with small sections of text
Offers an Interactive Learning Experience
Actively Learn Social Studies engages students with interesting content presented via a uniquely immersive learning experience that capitalizes on student curiosity.聽
Interactive features include:聽
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- 辩耻别蝉迟颈辞苍蝉听
- 惫颈诲别辞蝉听
- discussion prompts聽
- student supports聽
- assessments
Offers an Interactive Learning Experience
Actively Learn Social Studies engages students with interesting content presented via a uniquely immersive learning experience that capitalizes on student curiosity.
Interactive features include:聽
- 辫辞濒濒蝉听
- 辩耻别蝉迟颈辞苍蝉听
- 惫颈诲别辞蝉听
- discussion prompts聽
- student supports聽
- assessments