These are some strategies that you may find useful in teaching History and Social Studies.  Strategies are characterized as activities that are comprised of more than one activity and which assist in learning the larger unit and/or theme.

• Essay Writing Process: DBQ, Compare/Contrast, Continuity and Change Over Time, Expository, Argumentative Writing
• 4 Worlds
• Structured Academic Controversy
• Critical Research
• Funds of Knowledge (Using students’ family histories and knowledge base to increase lesson rigor and cognitive engagement)
• SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
• Linked Learning
• Deliberation
• Tiered Vocabulary
• Text Complexity
• Text-dependent questioning
• Student-driven questioning
• Sourcing
• Contextualization
• Corroboration
• Chunking
• Recreate a source
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Mindset Framing
• Emotional/Mental Framing
• Tuning Protocol
• Diffusing language
• Philosophical Chairs
• Literature Circles