Class Two: Big Ideas

January 22nd

Professor:

Tina Rasori, Ed.D.

rasori@aol.com

Agenda Course Learning Outcomes: 2 TPE’s:1,4,5,6,9

Analyzing Social Studies California Standards and NCSS Standards

What is the big idea of a social studies unit?

Group Work: Create Big Ideas for your grade level standards

Using Timelines in the Social Studies Classroom

Create a timeline for your grade level: What would it look like??

Analyzing Standards Read your grade levels California State Standards for History/Social Studies

Using the NCSS National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: A Framework for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment to Meet State Social Studies Standards

http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7404/7404217.pd

The Revised Social Studies Standards (Optional)

http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7404/7404204.pdf

The Revised NCSS Standards: Ideas for the Classroom Teacher (Optional)

http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7404/7404210.pdf

Analyzing Standards Cont.

Look at the standards for California and NCSS with your group and discuss them in general.

What do you notice about the standards throughout the grade levels?

What are some patterns that you notice between them?

What are some differences between the two standards?

Be ready to share out.

Big Idea of Social Studies Unit

Social Studies Big Ideas http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/departments/seced/Propel/PROPELSSE/PropelSSEBigIdeas.htm

Read Article: What is a big idea?

How does it help teach Social Studies?

Group Work: Create Big Ideas

Examples of Big Ideas for Units (4th and 5th)

Work with a grade level of your choosing to create Big Idea Units

Create a poster about your big idea

Be ready to share out!

Using Timelines in Social Studies

Using Timelines to Enhance Comprehension

http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/13033/

Creating a Timeline

http://otis.coe.uky.edu/ccsso/cssapmodules/sbp/sbp/Time%20Lines%20in%20Social%20Studies%20Instruction.html

Group Work:Create a Timeline

Examples of Timelines

Pick a grade level to work with

Create a timeline for a unit or for the entire school year for a grade level

Be ready to share out your timeline and why you organized it the way you did

Next Class:

Readings:

-Social Studies Alive Textbook, pp. 66-84; pp. 125-134

-Bring Social Studies Alive to class and other resources that you would use to plan a lesson in your placement classroom