Glenn Wiebe
Latest articles by Glenn Wiebe

ESSDACK PLC meets Russel Tarr & ClassTools. Everyone Gets Smarter.
By Glenn Wiebe published
The activity led to a great conversation around effective tools and resources that teachers and students can use while accessing and organizing online information.

History is a Bunch of Grass. And We Need to Let Our Kids Play on It.
By Glenn Wiebe published
We tell them about history and have them read about history but we never let them experience history.

Hot Chocolate. The Columbian Exchange. And Pirates.
By Glenn Wiebe published
We shouldn’t forget that history, social studies, civics, econ, geography are all about people. And about their stories.

Women’s History Month Resources. (That you should use all year.)
By Glenn Wiebe published
The National Women’s History Project aims to make excellent, user-friendly materials readily available for all areas of the K-12 curriculum.

Tip of the Week: 75+ Professional Learning Opportunities That Will Make You Smarter
By Glenn Wiebe published
If you’re planning to take advantage of the many different summer PD options, now is the time for finishing up your applications.

iCivics: The Bacon of Social Studies
By Glenn Wiebe published
What’s the bacon of social studies? That one thing that is so delicious that you need to integrate it into your classroom?

Tip of the Week: Forget the Gym. These 5 New Year’s Resolutions Are What You Really Need
By Glenn Wiebe published
It’s never too late to make a few 2019 social studies resolutions.

7 Geography Tools that Mess with Your Head. Cause that’s a Good Thing
By Glenn Wiebe published
The sad thing is that much of what we call geography instruction fails to make these emotional connections. The result? Our kids don’t remember basic geographic info or make the connections between place, people, and events.vv

Single-Point Rubrics and Checkmark Make Your Life Easier & Your Kids Smarter
By Glenn Wiebe published
You just finished putting together a great instructional lesson or unit. Then you realize . . . you haven’t created the rubric yet.

Art. So Much More than Something Hanging on a Wall
By Glenn Wiebe published
We often forget how powerful the arts can be in connecting our kids with social studies content and big ideas.

DB Quest: The latest Super Sweet Tool from iCivics and Library of Congress
By Glenn Wiebe published
In DBQuest, students are provided with a Big Question that is used to guide student thinking and examination using three selected primary resources.

Global Problem Solvers: Authentic problems, engaging content, free resources. What’s not to like?
By Glenn Wiebe published
The Global Problem Solvers is designed to introduce middle-to-high-school students to social innovation with a particular focus on how they can use technology to create effective solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems.

Real or Fake? Factitious is a Breakthrough Tool for Assessing Student Online Literacy
By Glenn Wiebe published
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