this comprehensive selection of hundreds of lessons provides teachers with a wide variety of...
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This comprehensive selection of
hundreds of lessons provides teachers
with a wide variety of strategies to give
every type of student access to core
content and skill building activities.
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Students have different learning styles
Teachers have different teaching styles and:
Interests
Comfort with technology
Organizational skills
Strategies for differentiating instruction
Ways of making connections for the students
Our modular approach offers choices of
sequenced lessons using a wide variety
of strategies
We provide more content than you can
cover to give you more options
Each lesson is ready-to-teach or be easily
adapted to your specific requirements
Inquiry-based
Evidence-based
Develops key skills
Reading, writing, critical thinking, etc.
Collaborative
Authentic assessments
The lessons on this DVD are sequenced (as
described on the following slides) to methodically
develop student mastery of the content.
However, the lessons are easily modifiable and
may be taught in the order that you feel would
provide the greatest benefit for you and your
students.
Decision Making in U.S. History
Backwards Planning PowerPoint®
U.S. History Readers
History Unfolding
Analyzing Visual Primary Sources
Document-Based Activities
Debating the Documents
Historian’s Apprentice
Interact simulations
Digital Atlas
Google Earth
Begin with engaging pre-knowledge activities
using real historical problems to develop student
skills in decision making, critical thinking, and
understanding multiple perspectives.
Use as a 20–30 minute “quick motivator” or an
in-depth two class period activity.
Solidly set the context with 50–100 PowerPoint®
Introduce key points guided by “Enduring
understandings” and “Essential questions”
Use one of several authentic assessments or the
multiple-choice quiz
Go in depth on topics introduced by Backwards
Planning with these thought-provoking articles
Use graphic organizers and vocabulary lists to
increase student reading comprehension
Challenge students with optional debates
and simulations
Students expand on core content knowledge by
interpreting primary sources and answering
document based questions (DBQs) using clear
guidelines for writing.
PowerPoint® slides place each visual source in
historical context, and break down each source
into its constituent parts
Guided discussion questions get students to
consider things like point of view, intended
audience, and historical impact and relevance.
Students move on to analysis of textual primary
sources found online (written, visual, audio/video,
charts, statistics).
Students interpret, make inferences, form opinions,
and shape arguments into narrative form.
Bring together students’ primary source analysis
skills developed in Analyzing Visual Primary
Sources and Document Based Activities lessons
as they prepare for a debate on a DBQ
Deepen historical understanding by doing what historians do: sourcing, weighing evidence, comparing secondary and primary sources to support their own conclusions.
Use these active learning projects to engage
and energize students to expand and deepen
their understanding of a topic while building
academic skills
Reinforce and expand on core content knowledge
by adding geographic critical thinking skills
Combine geography skills with core content in
U.S. history using Google Earth's dynamic
satellite imagery software.
Students use tools within the software to draw
routes, highlight specific areas, and measure
distances.
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