Welcome to the 2014-2015 School Year

Welcome back to Elm for another great year of social studies and post #275 on this blog.

Over the course of this school year we will be studying 20th Century U.S. history, the U.S. and Illinois constitutions, geography, and current events.

On our first full class, we'll also be taking our first news quiz of the year.

You can also watch the news at my current favorite source for student news.

Welcome to the 2013-2014 School Year

Welcome back to Elm for another great year of social studies.

Over the course of this school year we will be studying 20th Century U.S. history, the U.S. and Illinois constitutions, geography, and current events.

Here's a good political news quiz to get us started: 

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/

There is also an interesting, but not necessarily very accurate, Political Party Predictor (use at your own risk) at Channel One News.

You can also read more about politics over at Channel One (quite ad heavy)
or my current favorite source for student news, CNN Student News (neither of which is broadcasting quite yet).