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
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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?