Department of Social Sciences

Miami-Dade County Public Schools

*2013 U.S. History Summer Institute

*Topics to be Covered

*Introduction to Dept. of Social Sciences web resources

*Thematic presentation of history

*Lesson Planning Using Backwards Design

*Item Specifications, Benchmarks, Teaching Strategies, & Changes to U.S. History Instruction

*Best Practices

*Outside Presenters:

*Common Core

*Primary Sources

From the Social Sciences website, teachers can access the U.S. History Toolbox

*Thematic Presentation of

U.S. History*Political History

*Military History

*Economic History

*Social History

*Political History*Political Evolution & Constitutional Government

*Congressional Power vs. Presidential Power

*Supreme Court Cases

*The United States in the World: Military History

&Foreign Policy

*Major Wars

*Military Interventions

*The Armed Forces at Home

*How the United States Interacted with Other Nations

*Economic History*Raising of Taxes & Tariffs

*Economic Trade & Development

*Economic Systems & Performance

*Social History

*Sectional Tensions

*Social Trends & Developments

*Civil Rights & Gender Relations

*American Religion

*Lesson Plans: Backwards

Design

*Know where you want to go, then map out the path

*Instructional Strategies:

Political Cartoons

*DBQ Project: Document Based

Questions

Strategies to teach students to analyze primary source documents

O.P.V.L.P.O.S.E.R.S.S.O.A.P.S.Tone

*Web Resources