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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

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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

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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.