Hawaii-Approved for Statewide Use

Explore the social studies programs that earned Hawaii’s top designation: Recommended Without Reservations.

TCI’s K–12 social studies programs provide active, inquiry-based learning that builds critical thinking, civic literacy, and real-world skills.

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Explore Hawaii Social Studies Programs

TCI’s social studies programs have earned Hawaii DOE’s highest designation for K–12 Social Studies: Recommended without Reservations. Explore our elementary, middle, and high school programs, designed to help students connect past and present through hands-on learning and inquiry-based instruction and to empower teachers with flexible, standards-aligned resources. Check out standard correlations

Me and My World

Elementary Social Studies

Explore the fundamentals of the world—its communities, peoples, and cultures—with hands-on, engaging social studies lessons.

Elementary Social Studies
History Alive! The World Through 1750

Middle School Social Studies

Provide students the chance to think critically, challenge assumptions, and understand the complexities of societal structures.

Middle School Social Studies
Econ Alive

High School Social Studies

Discover students’ passions and spur action with immersive programs ranging from history and geography to economics and government.

High School Social Studies

Active Learning Built into Every Lesson

Active learning is at the heart of TCI’s programs. Students ask questions, think critically, and learn with TCI’s memorable activities that can be conducted in the classroom or online. Explore features across our K-12 social studies programs that promote student engagement.

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Drive Learning with K-5 Inquiry Projects

TCI’s Social Studies Alive! program for elementary classrooms fosters curiosity with student-driven Inquiry Projects. Each unit features an Inquiry Project, where students explore a compelling question about social studies, conduct research, and write an evidence-based argument.

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Video Activities

Engage Middle School Students Anytime, Anywhere with Video Activities

TCI’s Video Activities provide a new experience to meet the needs of today’s middle school social studies classrooms. The Video Activities are thoughtfully designed to capture student attention and promote active learning.

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Promoting Civic Engagement in High School with Video-Based Inquiry Projects

To prepare students to be informed, civic-minded adults, TCI’s latest edition of Government Alive! Power, Politics, and You includes video-based inquiry projects called Political Inquiries.

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TCI’s High-Quality Instructional Materials Bring Learning Alive!

TCI’s interactive social studies programs integrate proven teaching strategies and meaningful technology to engage students and foster their love of learning.

In a TCI classroom, students go beyond memorizing dates and facts. They construct arguments, analyze primary sources, interact with images and videos, and participate in rich discussions through TCI’s inquiry-based approach to learning.

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Flexible and Blended Program

Using our print products and digital platform, TCI’s flexible curriculum allows you to transition from the physical classroom to blended learning environments seamlessly.

  • Print and Digital Student Text, Notebook, Teacher’s Guide, and Placards
  • Online Lesson Plans
  • Flexible Assignments, Assessments, and Grading
  • Videos, Games, and Other Multimedia
  • Interactive Reading Tools
  • Learning Management System Integrations, including Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology

Why Social Studies Teachers Love TCI

Discover how teachers across the country use TCI’s social studies programs to inspire and engage students. Explore stories from TCI teachers

Social Studies Archaeological Activity

As an educator and as a history buff, I absolutely love the TCI curriculum! Engaging activities are fun for the students as well as the teacher. The text is written in a narrative style that draws students in and the images clearly embellish the content. The Notebook is easy to use with multi-modality activities for every type of learner. My favorite activity is for 6th graders on India’s ancient archaeological site of Mohenjo-Daro. Students get to climb over desks, hunt for clues on the floor and under desks, and piece together puzzles, to simulate being an archaeologist. My students love it and I love that they are engaged and interacting with the information in a meaningful way.

Stephanie Benton
6th Grade Social Studies & Language Arts Teacher
John Muir Middle School, CA
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We have used TCI products since 1998 and continue to adopt new TCI programs as they become available. Social studies teachers know that using TCI means having structures for cooperative learning, providing text that all students can comprehend and supporting the literacy goals of the district, using graphic organizers, teaching summarization skills, and engaging diverse students in learning about social studies in a real world context. I especially appreciate TCI technology, which is very user friendly; no one needs to know much about technology to make things happen in the classroom. Student usage of the technology has also increased student involvement in classroom activities.

Barbara Easley
Social Studies Coordinator
Hazelwood School District, Florissant, MO

As a Curriculum Coordinator, I helped teachers adopt TCI for elementary school. I was so impressed that I quickly expanded our adoption into middle school. I believe Geography Alive! is the finest textbook out there. After spending years in the early part of my career trying to design my own lessons, I was so pleased to come upon Geography Alive! All of the lessons are first-rate and truly do meet all of the different learning styles. I am proud to say that we now have TCI throughout our district in elementary, middle, and many high school classes.

Linda Prieskorn
Social Studies Teacher
Clague Middle School, Ann Arbor, MI
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