Middle School Social Studies. Social Studies Education What is the result of a quality Social...

Middle School Social Studies

Social Studies Education

•What is the result of a quality Social Studies education?

All students should know the Gadsden Purchase

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2FzuPyFlY

What if the NCFE’s are meaningless?

What if the NCFE’s are meaningless?

What if the NCFE’s are meaningless?

Social Studies Education

•What is the result of a quality Social Studies education?•Informed Civic Action

Informed Civic Action

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08zXTyAb6TY

• 7:25

Kraft’s Hierarchy of Social Studies Education

Informed Civic Action

Inquiry Based Education

Conceptual Teaching

Fact Based Instruction

Rigor

Complexity

Autonomy

Fact Based Instruction

• Every Student Should know the Gadsden Purchase

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ZpeYVazGE&list=UURbkvPkw1tI5EWWzW76xePg&index=17

Conceptual Teaching

• Facts should be organized by concepts. Look at themes in history and identify facts that are examples of those themes.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb25emyqbYk&list=UURbkvPkw1tI5EWWzW76xePg

• Assessment - http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/accountability/common-exams/released-forms/07grades/social-studies/common-exam.pdf

Inquiry Based Instruction

• Compelling Question – Supporting Question 1– Supporting Question 2– Supporting Question 3

* Summative Assessment

• www.c3teachers.org

Informed Civic Action

• Voting based on research• Managing money in a way that enhances an

individuals quality of life• Volunteering in the community to support an

issue that needs attention• Understanding a modern issue and petitioning

elected leaders to request change• http://commonweal.blogspot.com/

Kraft’s Hierarchy of Social Studies Education

Informed Civic Action

Inquiry Based Education

Conceptual Teaching

Fact Based Instruction

Next steps

• 1.) If your teachers use multiple choice questions – make them conceptual and factual not just factual.– NCFE, WSFCS Benchmarks, WSFCS question bank

• 2.) Write inquiry based lessons in PLTs.– Can use compelling question and supporting

questions format