McGraw Hill Networks: A Social Studies Curriculum for Grades 6 to 12
Engage the Students of Today to Invigorate the Citizens of Tomorrow
McGraw Hill Networks™ helps teachers prepare students to be successful in college, careers, and life in general. The program is robust, and student led.
Explore: Brings the subject area to life with challenging, age-appropriate content that highlights diverse perspectives, integrates primary sources, and makes relevant connections.
Discover: Ignites curiosity and facilitates critical thinking, teaching students how to analyze sources, cite evidence, and take informed action with project-based activities.
Perform: Save time with customizable lesson plans and classroom management tools. Meet every student where they are with point-of-use differentiation strategies and authentic ELL support.
Inspire: Encourage teamwork, problem solving, friendly debate, action, and draw connections to today. By becoming engaged, students realize they have the power to influence the world around them.
Pedagogy
Spark Inquiry and Promote Critical Thinking
The Inquiry Journals are interactive texts that will encourage students to think analytically through active learning. Students are asked to research, evaluate sources, and complete evidence-based writing tasks, and thereby learn how to reach informed conclusions.
Meaningful Support for Students and Teachers
- Point-of-use differentiation strategies for approaching-level, beyond-level, and ELL students
- Comprehensive Spanish language resources, with print Spanish Student Editions for select titles
- Adjustable reading levels, audio, and closed captioning
- Reading Essentials and Study Guides to support below-level readers
- Comprehensive Spanish language resources, with print Spanish Student Editions for select titles
Point-of-use differentiation for ELL students is shown here
Teach Your Way With Customizable Pathways
Networks enables customizable pathways for teaching and learning. Planning guides offer a custom path to use the resources including print, digital, inquiry, or project-based, so you can teach the way you want to.
- Inquiry Path: Encourages students to engage with the essential questions by analyzing primary sources, reporting findings, and taking action.
- Teacher-Directed Path: Supports teachers by providing interactive, differentiated activities and a linear path through the content. Assessments wrap-up the lessons and chapters.
- Project Path: Encourages students to engage with the essential question by creating a product or project, often developing the skills of collaboration and teamwork.
Features for McGraw Hill Networks
Online Teacher Center
- Access online lesson plans and library of resources.
- Send and receive messages from students
- Review recent assignments
- Access interactive activities, printable worksheets, and other resources that support the lesson
- Start a lesson presentation, made up of slides showing maps, timelines, and resources, for whole class instruction
Teachers can access pre-built lesson plans that are easily customizable and reference point of use differentiation strategies.
Hundreds of additional resources are available in the resource library. Teachers can upload their own resources, too.
Online Student Center
- Students can plan, study, check teacher messages, get assignments, and save work. Students can also access these engaging resources:
- Maps
- Games
- Timelines
- Infographics
- Primary Source
- Images
Resources are accessible right at the lesson via a carousel. Students can also change the text size for ease of reading, access audio read-aloud, and annotation tools for close reading.
Reading and writing support such as guided notes, vocabulary pop-ups, and graphic organizers, help improve understanding of the content.
Video Testimonials
Blendon Middle School (Westerville, OH)
Listen to teachers, administrators, and students discuss how Networks has improved their teaching and learning experience:
- How the constantly evolving resource library supports differentiation, even for assessments
- Why it's easier for students to focus and stay on task
- How it's been used to improve parental involvement
- How it streamlines lesson planning
We strive to create content that is significant to meaningful educational experiences and by winning a REVERE Award, Networks™ is now highlighted as a product that truly helps students learn. In the company of a diverse group of innovative and rich educational resources, Networks™ win shows the excellent quality of our digital products.