Social Studies Dept. Chair Social Studies Dept. Chair MeetingMeetingFriday, December 11, 2009Archbishop Carroll High School

AgendaAgendaPrayerIntroductionPresentation by Nicole RoperGeneral BusinessIntroduction of Essential

QuestionsGold Seal Lessons1st Semester Assessments

Important Websites and E-Important Websites and E-mailsmailsSecondary Curriculum Wikihttp://

secondarycurriculum.pbworks.com/Course Wherehttp://www.solutionwhere.com/aop/

cw/main.aspEric Stonesiferestonesifer@northcatholic.comstonese1@hotmail.com

General InformationGeneral InformationMembership of the Curriculum

CommitteeElective coursesIdeas about DevelopmentDept. Chairs Meeting

Wednesday, March 10, 2010University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Essential QuestionsEssential Questions

1. Why should we understand how people, places, and ideas have changed over time?

2. Why should we recognize universal patterns that exist within our world?

3. How can past events shape present and future events?

4. How can you determine if evidence is valid and reasonable?

Essential QuestionsEssential Questions5. Why are making inferences and

generalizations and drawing conclusions important in understanding our world?

6. Why should we recognize and analyze multiple points of view?

7. How can looking at multiple points of view help us explain the ideas and actions of individuals and groups?

8. How can recognizing multiple points of view help promote tolerance and understanding of diversity?

Essential QuestionsEssential Questions

9. Why should we be able to recognize and analyze spatial relationships?

10.To what extent can studying evidence from the past help us prevent future problems and make decisions that will affect the future?

11.How can we use technology to gather, classify, sequence, and interpret information and visual data?

Use of Essential QuestionsUse of Essential QuestionsEssential Questions are to help

students look at the “Big Picture.”Essential Questions can be used

to organize activities for a unit.Only a few Essential Questions

should be used for each unit.Wording of the Essential

Questions can be changed to meet the needs of your students.

Gold Seal LessonsGold Seal LessonsTeachers are doing Gold Seal

Lessons.Like to have open communication

of lessons throughout the archdiocese.

Asking each school to bring one Gold Seal Lesson to the next Dept. Chair meeting in March.

11stst Semester Exams Semester ExamsQuestions that incorporate all of

the units of study during the semester.

Questions that test higher level thinking skills.

Questions relate to the standards.