Speaking the Language of Social Studies

Megan Goodingthomasml84@gmail.com@Megan_Gooding

http://bit.ly/speakingthelanguage

What is our Language?• Academic Words

• Content-Specific

•Macro-Concepts

•Micro-Concepts

What Words??• Preview Text• Select both content-specific and academic words• Look at TEKS• TEKS Resource System IFDs• Look at Tests• Students

• You are the Expert

Word Walls & Activities

Instructions & Words

Word Wall Bingo0 Remove words from word wall leaving definitions behind.

0 Have students fill in a bingo card with the words they think match the definitions.

0 Person with most matches win.

Flyswatter Game

Vocabulary Pizza

Word Experts0 Students who know words on pre-assessment are responsible for sharing knowledge with other students. 0 Create an anchor chart0 Create word for word wall0 Vocab pizza

Personal Dictionaries0 Based on pre-assessment0 Students have personalized set of words in a journal

0 Each day works with a wordor…

0 Each day does different activities with the words.

http://www.thecraftyclassroom.com/HomeschoolToolsHelpfulWords.html

Bell Ringer – Exit Ticket Activity

Depression Social Welfare Resolve

Migration Drought

As a bell ringer, students will define or provide an example for each of the five words:

Bell Ringer – Exit Ticket Activity

Students will write an exit journal entry from the perspective of someone who experienced the Dust Bowl using the 5 vocabulary words at the beginning of the lesson.

Words Over Time

Vocabulary Jenga

http://srahuff.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/vocabulary-jenga/

Jenga Instructions1. Split into 2 Teams 2. A member from team 1 pulls a block from the tower3. Without help from teammates, they define the vocabulary

word4. If student gets the word CORRECT: they put Jenga block

down on table5. Teammate from opposing team comes up & has to add that

block to top of tower6. Then that student pulls block from the tower & cycle begins

again7. If student gets the word INCORRECT: they put Jenga block

down on the table & another member from their team must come up and put block on top of tower. Then that student continues the process

Muffin Toss Vocabulary

Rock & Roll Vocab

Word Tub0 Keep all the words throughout the year in a tub by your desk\podium

0 Review by playing any of these games in your extra time

0 Just draw a word (or two) and give students a quick assignment!

Historical Figures

Time Travels: What Era?

5thGrade Figures

Concept Representations

World History Figures

Social Studies Concepts

The Dreaded SkillsHow to get your students to exhibit social studies skills

Who Doesn’t Belong?

8th Grade Historical Figures

Odd Man Out

U.S. History Historical Figures

Odd One Out

8th Grade Court Cases

Prove Your Point

Prove Your Point

VS.

The Walking & Talking Timeline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt9qImTzmMk&list=FLWiZ_pp4X9_CpSJ-a-dr7Ug&index=11

Floor Timelinehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt9qImTzmMk&list=FLWiZ_pp4X9_CpSJ-a-dr7Ug&index=11

Our Solutions

Extra Games & Activities!

The following slides are from our Fun & Effective Vocabulary ATB recorded in Fall 2013 as well as our Speaking the Language ATB recorded in 2012.

Putting It Together: Relay Review Game

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=141765

Vocab Scrapbook

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/classroom_solutions/2010/01/a-new-year-a-stronger-you

Vocab Wheel

http://hodgesherald.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/foldables-for-our-math-notebooks.html

Battleship

http://www.foldables.blogspot.ca/2010/03/latest-foldable-fun.html

Reward Systems0 Reward for personal use of words (correctly)0 Writing0 Speaking0 Identify in reading

0 Reward team for word use.

0 Class period vs. class period word use.

0 Whole class rewards –towards an amount.

Reward systems0 Point Ideas:

0 1 point = student saw or heard word in speech, print, or other media.

0 2 points – Student used word in speech

0 3 points – Student used word in writing.

Scramble0 Similar to linking up.0 Looking for similarities or differences specifically.

Word Tetris0 Students grouped and given a set of words.

0 Have to form a sentence, paragraph, or connections in a certain amount of time.

0 Each minute a new word is added to the mixture – group must integrate it somehow.

0 Group with the longest chain wins.

Anchor Chart0 Select a word from the wall & place on board0 Students write related things on sticky notes or white board – as many as they can in one minute.

Vocabulary Twister

Connect Four0 Put vocabulary words (or numbers) on Connect Four discs with adhesive dots.

0 Students play Connect Four as normal.

0 As soon as they have connected four words, they write a story or explain the connection…

Instructional Strategies for Social Studies

http://georgetownisd.org/ccorner/socstudies/InstructionalStrategiesforSocialStudies.asp

Hands-on Strategies

http://www.saisd.net/admin/curric/sstudies/handson.html

15 Vocabulary Strategies in 15

minutes

http://learningtasks.weebly.com/vocabulary-strategies.html

Vocabulary Role PlayExperience Terms in Different

Contexts

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=192137

Adolescent Literacy in Perspective

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

http://www.ohiorc.org/orc_documents/ORC/Adlit/InPerspective/2008-10/in_perspective_2008-10.pdf