BitCycle's favorite photos and videos | Flickr. 9 Sources for Historical Images, Documents, Videos, and Audio. Unit 7: American Imperialism. Free Summer Institutes for Social Studies Teachers: Ideas and Traditions in American Foreign Relations (Sunday, July 11, 2004 to Friday, July 16 2004) DESCRIBE Primary Source Strategy. There’s nothing like a great document. But it’s tough finding ways to use them with kids, especially those kids who always seem to struggle. The following strategy called DESCRIBE is based on work done by the Library of Congress.
It’s designed to help kids activate background knowledge, understand key vocabulary and comprehend text. And an added benefit? DESCRIBE helps all kids engage with primary sources but is specifically designed to help struggling learners. The strategy is based on seven research-based instructional principles: actively involving students in the learning processpresenting abstract information in concrete formsorganizing information for studentstying new information to previously learned informationdistinguishing important information from unimportant informationmaking relationships among pieces of information explicitexplicitly showing students how to learn specific types of content (Download the blank template here.)
The process To start, you should: Explain the concept. Microfacts/Weaving History - Home. Socrative | Student response system | Engage audiences. Council for Economic Education | EconomicsAmerica® | National Standards. 50 Great Sites For Social Studies Teachers (Part Deux) Dr. Booker’s Simple Rules of History. Dr. Matthew Booker is the first presenter in our Century of Progress summer session. He’s sharing today about how the US was able to sustain its Revolution. We always assume that once we won the war against England and signed the Treaty of Paris, that the process of nationhood was a given.
But it wasn’t. (An interesting tidbit he just shared. One problem was the huge growth in the population between 1790 and 1830. But before he jumped into historical content, he shared three ideas about the process of historical thinking. So here they are – Dr. 1. Why was slavery so successful? Students have trouble with this – they come to our classes with their own world view and questions and problems make them uncomfortable. 2. And there are many resources available to help with this. 3. He said something to the effect of “we must refuse to believe something merely because we want it to be true.” Sam Wineburg said this as well: Booker also shared what he called two “absolute rules for historians.” 1. 77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer. Common Curriculum. Citebite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages. Web 2.0 Tools.
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