Loewen Chapter 13

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link: http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html

Big Question: How can we as a society reach those people who have gone through the public school system with an unfortunate social studies experience? Or is it too late for them to understand history as it deserves to be understood?

Cantu 12 & 13

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Big Questions: How early should students start learning about sociology and psychology?
                        

Interactive Sites:Social Explorer
                           Student Discovery Sets

Loewen Chapter 12

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Big question: Why do schools not care about the truthfulness of history content and its delivery? Why is there not a big push for better history courses in our American schools?

Interactive link : Learner.org

Cantu Chapters 10 & 11

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Economics Big Question: How do teachers work with parents and families to help students understand real world economics? 

Geography Big Question: Should the subject of geography have a class of its own throughout school or continue being clumped into a "social Studies class"?

Interactive Website: Financial Soccer

Geography Website: Mapmaker Website 

Loewen Chapter 11

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Big Question : How can students be productive citizens when they are unaware of the struggles in the present and how that will affect their future? How does keeping our youth ignorant of the realities help the future of the nation?

Interactive Site : Bloomberg Graphics

Loewen Chapter 10

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Big Question-  Will the common core standards change the way textbooks are written? If we are asking students to think critically, will the textbooks provide an introduction for students?

Interactive Site - National Geographic 
                            911 Memorial 

Cantu Chapters 8 & 9

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Interactive websites: Sheppardsofware.com
                                  Archives.com Geneology






Big Questions: If the standards for history are so clear and the scope of what students should be learning is outlined, why is it that we find so much repeating material in our classes?

If the civics standards are outlined so well, why is it that so many of our students do not know how the basic principles of our government work?

Loewen Chapter 6

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Interactive Website -The Abolitionist Map of America PBS

Big Question -  How do teachers present race and its history without shocking students too much? How do teachers cover all the material students have missed in the last years of education, so that they have a good foundation going forward?

Loewen Chapter 5

Big Question: If these new generations of students are not taught the true stories of slavery, how will they learn to understand modern slavery and the crisis happening in their lifetime? Or do we even want them to know about it? 

                                                         

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Interactive Website. Mission 2:Flight to Freedom 

Technology Standards & Technology Integration

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Interactive Website: befunky.com  
Interactive Website: canva.com

  Big Questions

1. How do teachers who have been teaching for 25-30 years, and have learned to teach without technology, make their classrooms a 21st century classroom?

2. How does a teacher facilitate time to teach content and also teach students to use all these technology tools in order to use it for the content?

Unit 1 Weebly

Unit 1 : Vietnam War Unit

Lesson & Unit Planning : Social Studies Teaching Strategies

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 Interactive website
  Glogster 
 This website helps create interactive posters with pictures, videos, and information all in one electronic page.
                           

 ExploraTree

   This website helps create thinking guides, analyzing chart, and ways of looking at things from    different perspectives.

 

Big Questions
 What is a teacher to do if students are not engaging at all with any of his/her attempts to teach the classroom?

How does one ensure to cover all levels of Bloom's taxonomy without spending too much time in a lower level?

Social Studies and Common Core Standards

 Screencast Cantu-Chapter 2

Big Question: Could there ever be a set of standards that covers the national, state, and common core standards? What is the opposition to having just one set?

Interactive website: www.mapbox.com 

This website allows you to gather data and information from specific regions for interactive control of the information.

Social Studies Curricular Frameworks & Instructional Models

 Screencast - Chapter 1: Social Studies Curricular Frameworks & Instructional Models

Interactive Website: Draw.io                    

Big Question: How does classroom management affect the success of curricular frameworks and instructional models that teachers should be using in their classrooms?
     

Blog 3 - Chapter 4 Red Eyes

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Big Question: Taking into account that textbooks rarely consider the history of women in "White" American history, how does it portray the story of Native American women? Does it even mention it?

Interactive Site : Infinity of Nations
This website has a Cultural Quest game that takes students through a series of activities and questions about different Native American groups in North and South America.

Blog 2 - 1493: The True Importance of Christopher Colombus

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Big Question: How do we present students with information about the good and bad people have done without jading them? How can students learn to respect people for the good in their accomplishments while also knowing their downfalls?

Interactive Website: Hyperhistory.com
This website charts out major world events that happened during the same period of time, all throughout the world. This website would help students see what else was happening in the world during the same time and how that event was influenced by global events.

Blog Post 1 : Intro & Handicapped by History

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Big Question:  Why are publishing companies allowed to distort history for the sake of making money? Why is there no accountability when discrepancies are so obvious?

www.digitalvaults.org - This website has a collection of pictures, documents, and artifacts. These digital documents have been tagged and can connect to other similar documents and stories from all throughout history.