IMPACT: California Social Studies Online

Your portal for:

Extraordinary flexibility in resources.
Creating and delivering dynamic lessons.
Engaging students with interactive content.
Building strong inquiry, citizenship, and literacy skills.

How to Use IMPACT

Learn how to easily become a master of the flexible resources and powerful instruction of IMPACT: California Social Studies Online.

Start here with this Quick Start Course for an interactive overview of California: IMPACT Social Studies.

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Our Digital Walkthrough provides instructions on accessing and using:

Online Teacher Center
Class Dashboard
Online Lesson Plans
How to Customize Classes and Material
How to Find Resources
Using the Online Assessment Test Generator
Creating Assignments
Assigning Different Reading Levels
Spanish Materials

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Professional Development Resources

Learn more about the multitude of resources to support individual teaching styles, classroom technology use, and student needs.

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In-depth Technology Support

Unique Resources

IMPACT: California Social Studies Online resources include cutting-edge technology that gives you the power to teach to each student and connect curriculum to students’ everyday lives.

Revolutionary adaptive technology that builds a personalized reading experience for each student to increase retention and focus study efforts.

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Review LearnSmart online

Log in to IMPACT Online using the credentials provided above in Step 2.
Select a course to review.
On your Chapter Landing Page, go to the Student Editions section, and locate "Adaptive Learning Smartbook."
Click on the title to launch LearnSmart.

Connect history and social sciences to student’s everyday lives through short, daily reading and writing assignments with <i>SyncBlasts</i>. This engaging social-media type of platform inspires students to think critically about high-interest topics.

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