Category: social studies

• The Newark Museum: A Gem

  

  I grew up in a town less than five minutes from Newark, New Jersey. All my life I’ve known that Newark is the home of so many wonderful things: Branchbrook Park and it’s cherry blossoms, the Prudential Center, food that is to die for, and it was the city my immigrant Italian ancestors called home…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  August 27, 2019

  field trip, history, power of place, research, social studies

  class trip, field trip, history teacher, museum, newark museum

• African & American Folktales

  

  World history in 5th grade took an (even more) exiting turn prior to leaving for spring break.  Having just finished our Egypt research papers, we decided to travel to countries in East and West Africa as well as to the Carribean and Southern United States to explore how and why histories intersect through folktales.  I…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  March 21, 2019

  5th grade, Africa, black history month, reading, reading strategies, slavery, social studies, venn diagrams

  africa, blackhistorymonth, folktales, slavery

• Social Studies & Building Character

  How do we as social studies teachers deliver lessons not only to teach content, but to help our students become more responsible, empathetic citizens?  I often wrestle with the idea of whether or not empathy can be taught and I also wonder how much my classes can shape a students’ character, if at all.  However,…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  November 25, 2013

  andrew jackson, character education, empathy, social studies