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How I use One-Pagers in my Social Studies Classes

I'm a little behind. I only recently discovered "One-Pagers" after joining a middle school teacher Facebook group. It seemed everybody was talking about them- how they use them, when they use them, etc. The photos of student-produced work is what hooked me. I was impressed! This year I started teaching a new course- Geography and World Cultures. I am one of two teachers in my middle school who teach this course. It is a challenge to cover SO MUCH MATERIAL in such a short period of time. We both are committed to DEPTH over BREADTH. We also believe it is imperative that we provide our students with meaningful, interesting, and engaging lessons. After learning about One-Pagers, I was excited about implementing them into my Geography class. I shared my idea with my fellow Geo teacher and he was on board! We sat together during our planning period one afternoon and discussed how to cover our unit on Southwest Asia. Our textbook covers each region of the world by focusing o...