How to Use social studies in a Sentence

social studies

plural noun
  • Science and social studies requirements will be reduced from three to two credits.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • But what students are taught in their social studies classes has become a political flashpoint.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The number of social studies credits decreased by one, going from six to five, and economics has been removed as a requirement for the base diploma.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Aug. 2024
  • But opponents say that’s an overly broad edict that could rule out many of the methods that social studies educators use to connect what’s taught in the classroom to what’s going on in the real world.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 4 May 2021
  • At camp, students participate in 40-minute core classes – English, social studies, math and science – in the mornings.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2024
  • There is a growing push for social studies curriculum to be more inclusive, particularly around the legacy of slavery and its lingering systemic inequities.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The school website lists him as a social studies teacher.
    baltimoresun.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Darren Williams, a social studies teacher in Tulsa, Okla., was part of the group.
    Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In Toth, Bedford turned to a coach who has been in its school system for the last four years as a social studies teacher.
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Walz taught social studies and helped coach the football team that won the school's first state championship.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The next year the massacre became part of the state’s social studies curriculum.
    Ernie Suggs, ajc, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Reichert was part of Desert Ridge since 2007 when he was hired as a social studies teacher.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2021
  • By high school, Jones left social studies for the fields, following the same route his mother once did each year.
    Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Some students also took a social studies field test in the spring, but scores will not be released from it.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The plaintiff, a student in the eighth-grade social studies class, watched the video and had a profoundly bad reaction, the suit claimed.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
  • Leonel, who wants to be a social studies teacher looking out for kids who don’t fit in, yearned to head out of town for college.
    Mila Koumpilova, USA Today, 1 July 2021
  • Also, a big part of it was strong social studies and the fact that I was really submerged in the youth culture.
    Melissa Magsaysay, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • A few days later, Natalia Chansler, 41, a sixth grade social studies teacher, died from the virus as well.
    Brayden Garcia, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The new social studies standards spell out what students should learn about civics and the Holocaust in their classes from kindergarten to 12th grade.
    Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2021
  • The state is in the middle of reviewing social studies curriculum.
    Ruth Serven Smith | Rserven@al.com, al, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Students in fourth and sixth grade are also tested on science and fifth graders on social studies.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
  • There is no English, no math, no science, no social studies.
    Laura Meckler, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The topic has long been part of McMinn County’s ninth-grade social studies curriculum.
    Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Payne-Elliott had worked for 13 years as a world language and social studies teacher at Cathedral High School.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
  • In a broader context, the multiple concerns about the teaching of social studies have grown for years.
    Alan J. Borsuk, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2021
  • His achievements are taught in public school social studies courses in Ohio.
    Fox News, 15 July 2022
  • Students will be judged on their grades from the first part of their sixth-grade year in English, math, science, and social studies as well as their grades in fifth grade in English and math.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
  • Jordan Russell, a high school social studies teacher in Bryan, Tex., agrees.
    Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Sixth graders use Adderall to power through social studies.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • Only in the past few days did candidates emerge as long-term substitutes for the social studies teacher.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2022

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