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Sheryl Anderson

Social Studies Cnetral - 1 views

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common_core lesson_plans history

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  • Sheryl Anderson on 02 Mar 13
     
    A huge resource list just for Social Studies teachers. Common Core emphasis.
Tracy Watanabe

Create your own "Choose Your Own Adventure" story -- inkle » inklewriter - 0 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 27 Feb 13
     
    Create your own "Choose Your Own Adventure" story -------------- I can see this as a fab way to incorporate research, creativity, and critical thinking (21st century learning) with historical events. For example, what if George Washington hadn't decided to have his troops inoculated against the smallpox epidemic during the Revolutionary War? -- How would that have affected the casualty rate? -- and from there the adventure could show a possible different outcome. 
Tracy Watanabe

DISTCO- Digital Storytelling Contests | Digital Storytelling Contest 2013 - 1 views

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Digital Storytelling contest

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 31 Jan 13
     
    Digital Storytelling is great for ELA writing, speaking & listening standards, and for content areas, such as Social Studies. There are a few examples at bottom of page.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 31 Jan 13
     
    Digital Storytelling is great for ELA writing, speaking & listening standards, and for Social Studies. There are a few examples at bottom of page.
Sheryl Anderson

Lincoln CSI - 1 views

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  • Sheryl Anderson on 05 Nov 12
     
    Students decide guilt or innocence of people accused in Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
Sheryl Anderson

Cartoon Analysis - 2 views

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  • Sheryl Anderson on 05 Nov 12
     
    Interactive Lesson on Cartoon analysis
Sheryl Anderson

PBS Learning Media - 1 views

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  • Sheryl Anderson on 01 Nov 12
     
    Lesson plans for social studies
Tracy Watanabe

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » The Miniature Earth Project - 0 views

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  • What it is:  The Miniature Earth Project is a great website that poses the question: “what if the population of the Earth were reduced into a community of only 100 people?”  Based on this assumption, the site helps students understand what the breakdown of nationalities would be, religious representation, how many people would live in an urban area, how many people would have the majority of the world income, how many would live without clean world, those that live on less than $1.25/day, etc.  The purpose of the site is to break our quickly approaching 7billion people in the world down to a number (100) that we can more easily wrap our minds around.  The point of the site is to help kids (and adults) understand the real landscape of the world and cause positive action.
  • “Understanding our rights and responsibilities as individuals and the similarities and differences of others helps contribute to the development of world citizens.”
Tracy Watanabe

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » History Pin - 0 views

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ilearn history interactive

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  • What it is:  History Pin is a really neat website that lets students (and anyone) electronically “pin” historical pictures, videos, audio clips, and stories to a digital globe.  There are three main ways to use History Pin: exploring it, adding to it, or curating things on it
  • How to integrate History Pin into the classroom: History Pin is a neat place for students to learn about history.  They can see history through pictures, video and stories submitted by people around the world.  History Pin is also a fantastic place for students to demonstrate learning.  They can add pins, create collections or tours around their learning.
Tracy Watanabe

Get out the VOTE! -ASCD-100112 - 1 views

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  • To help make teaching about the upcoming U.S. elections easy for you and fun for your students, Mimio has created a guide with lesson plans, and downloadable interactive lessons for K-12 social studies classes.
Tracy Watanabe

2012 KidVote Mock Election - Every Vote Really Does Count! - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 10 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Welcome to #KidVote Mock Election for the upcoming US Presidential Election in November 2012.
  • DEADLINE TO SIGN UP: Friday, October 19, 2012. This will allow my students have time to prepare everything they need to track the data, and more importantly, get it shared on Election Day!
  • Thank you all for taking this event to the next level for our students. A mock election is fun, but a mock election shared with the whole country? THAT’s what 21st century learning is all about: collaboration and authentic experiences!
Tracy Watanabe

Revised AP Physics, U.S. History Coming Soon - Curriculum Matters - Education Week - 0 views

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  • The College Board today announced the release of redesigned AP programs for U.S. history and physics, with a focus on reducing the amount of content coverage required to allow more time for studying key concepts in greater depth. Schools will offer the revised courses starting in fall 2014.
  • The emphasis on covering less material in greater depth surely rings a bell with lots of this blog's readers, given that this is a core mantra these days, emphasized, for example, in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics, as well as the common science standards now being developed by a coalition of states and others.
  • Topics covered in Physics 1 include Newtonian mechanics; work, energy, and power; and mechanical waves and sounds. Physics 2 covers fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, optics, and atomic and nuclear physics.
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  • As for U.S. history, the key objectives of the changes include: • Alignment with evolving U.S. history curriculum at the nation's top colleges and universities; • Providing teachers and students flexibility to focus on specific historical topics, events, and issues in greater depth; and • Increasing student practice of historical thinking skills as central to understanding history.
Sheryl Anderson

Africans in America - 1 views

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  • Sheryl Anderson on 04 Oct 12
     
    Good site for short textual descriptions of historical events and accompanying primary source documents
Tracy Watanabe

Home: About CAP Civic Action Project | High School Civics Government Curriculum | Lesso... - 0 views

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  • Civic Action Project (CAP) is a project-based learning model for civics and government courses. It offers a practicum for high school students in effective and engaged citizenship and uses blended learning to engage students in civic activities both in and out of the traditional U.S. government classroom. By using web-based technology and civics-based instruction and activities, students exercise important 21st century skills in digital literacy, critical thinking, collaboration, self-direction, and learning to be an engaged and effective citizen in a democracy.
Tracy Watanabe

Rand McNally Education :: Play the Election - 1 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 17 Sep 12
     
    Rand McNally launched a free online tool for students and teachers to learn more about the presidential election process. "An accompanying online teacher resource center includes lesson plans based on the Common Core Standards making it easy to integrate the games and activities into the classroom.   Features of "Play the Election" Digital Learning Game * Interactive electoral map - Breaks down the Electoral College by state, details past election results, real-time polling data, election-related headlines, and more. * Digital Mini-Games - Students can choose from eleven different mini-games that reinforce key concepts of the election, delve deeper into the issues of influential and battleground states, and tie core civics curriculum to current events. * Standards-aligned lesson plans - Professionally-created lesson plans for educators that cover key aspects of the 2012 Election, the Electoral College, and major debates. * Student Access - Each student creates their own unique profile that allows them to save and edit their own electoral map, play and track their progress through the games, and see how their answers stack up against those of others in their class or the country. * Create Your Own Games - Teachers can create their own mini-games to reinforce key concepts or to teach new, related events. "Play the Election" was created in collaboration with ImpactGames and is powered by ImpactGames' Knight News Game award winning platform."
Tracy Watanabe

Engage Future Voters with Election Projects | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • With the presidential election dominating the news between now and November, there's no shortage of timely material to bring into classroom discussions. If used as the starting point for project-based learning, the 2012 election can engage students in thinking critically about everything from media messages to voter rights to public opinion polls.
  • When students become media literate, they learn to ask critical questions about how political advertisements were constructed, who paid for them to be produced and aired, and whether the information is credible or distorted. Often, such projects lead to students producing and publishing their own media messages.
Tracy Watanabe

A House Divided - LiveBinder - 0 views

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livebinder ss social studies Antebellum geography interactive

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 07 Sep 12
     
    Objective:  In this unit students will be able to explore how geographic, economic, social, and political issues can impact the ideological and structural bond of the United States (past, present, future) with an emphasis on the Antebellum Period. Essential Questions: 1.  What were/are the impacts of slavery on our country (past, present, future)? 2.  How can good leadership preserve unity? 3.  What significant issues can cause a war between citizens of the same country? 4.  In what ways can conflict result in positive outcomes?
Sheryl Anderson

Jaywalking - 4th of July - 1 views

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    Embarrassing to the nth degree.
Sheryl Anderson

Middle School Debate Topics List - 0 views

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  • Sheryl Anderson on 04 Aug 12
     
    List of MS appropriate debate suggestions
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