Ideas for teaching social studies and history
Find my ideas for teaching social studies and history to high school students in Denmark. Some posts are whole lesson plans, history and social studies exercises while others are more general teaching ideas and ways of organizing the work.
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Teaching how to Understand Graphs
When teaching how to understand graphs, I like to use living graphs to give my students a better understanding of the graphs they are presented with in the wild. I want to teach my students how to critically engage with statistic including the concept of medians and averages. I also want to show them how…
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Practice reading graphs and tables
Because many student find it hard to understand graphs and tables we need to help them practice reading graphs and tables While we of course practice this throughout the year. When exams roll around, I tend to explicitly train with them. Here are a few ideas for how to do this.
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Teaching political alignment with living graphs
Use living graphs then teaching political alignment makes it easier for our students to visualise where the political parties fall on political scales in a complex political system like the Danish system or in other European systems.
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Teaching the economic cycle
Teaching the economic cycle can be hard because many students are afraid of math. Focus on teaching connections in the system instead of numbers
About me as a teacher
I teach social studies and history at a high school level in Denmark. I teach mostly samfundsfag C & B and History as part of KS (cultural studies). I have been teaching for more than ten years.
I have a masters in history from Aarhus University and I minored in social studies. Read more about me and see my teaching resume.
I choose to write my teaching blog posts in English because I want to give back to the teaching community that inspires me.
