Ed Week's Classroom Q&A Response Highlights Memory Scaping as a Learning Strategy

Marcus and I describe memory scaping as a means of helping students retain information about social studies in responding to Education Week as a
part of the popular Classroom Q&A with Larry Ferlazzo.

The
question
for this blog post was: "Are there curricula or strategies I can use to make social studies exciting to my students?"

Memory scaping is one of more than than 100 strategies that we

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