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Social Studies Off the Page MCAE Network 2017 Lakshmi Nayak Note: Before posting this presentation online, all photos of students were removed or cropped for privacy, and some slides were re-arranged to account for this. Therefore the version you are viewing is not as much fun. A few comments were added in the notes to approximate some of what we talked about. These slides were only a jumping off point.
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Social Studies Off the PageMCAE Network 2017Lakshmi Nayak
Note: Before posting this presentation online, all photos of students were removed or cropped for privacy, and some slides were re-arranged to account for this. Therefore the version you are viewing is not as much fun.
A few comments were added in the notes to approximate some of what we talked about. These slides were only a jumping off point.
House-keeping
Google doc as chart paper for ideas, questions, examples, resources, …
(link was removed before posting this presentation online)
If we end up using the rubber duckies, please return them all at the end.
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Purpose & Beginnings
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It’s so easy to only teach Social Studies out of a textbook or review it out of a workbook – and that can be deadly. In this session, participate in some of the activities that got my ABE students (GLE 7-12) thinking, asking questions, and wanting to know more. Discuss connected resources and alignment with the College and Career Readiness Standards for ELA. Have fun and walk away with ideas you can use. What does it mean to think like a historian? An anthropologist? Sociologist? Economist? Political Scientist? Geographer? Ordinary person who votes or makes decisions based on knowledge and curiosity in addition to emotion? Here are some of my thoughts, at http://sabes.org/content/reporting-live-coabe.
Take-Home Messages
• Make history and social sciences come alive through a combination of looking at the Big Picture and at personal stories and specific examples. See the forest AND the trees!
• Look for patterns and connections.
• Encourage Questions! Lots of questions.
• Play with texts. (In addition to printed words, texts can also be photos, cartoons, graphs, maps, movies, …)
• Think and wonder out loud. Let your passions and curiosity energize your students to follow yours and theirs.
Activities & Resources we’ll sample today
1. Videos as discussion prompts
2. Table-top maps
3. Statistics, Trends, and Graphs: Population Circle
4. Statistics become real people: Children of the Holocaust
5. Previewing and Questioning: First Lines Line-Up
6. Beyond the front faces: Women Activists for Social Justice in the 20th Century
7. U.S. Civil Rights: connecting some years, photos, and locations (images, timelines, maps)
8. Great documentaries to feature
(as time permits)
Videos as discussion prompts or hooks
“I am an African man”:http://www.mamahope.org/unlock-potential/
Beginning clip from “The Danger of a Single Story”:http://ed.ted.com/featured/TXtMhXIA
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http://www.mamahope.org/unlock-potential/ http://ed.ted.com/featured/TXtMhXIA
Table-Top Maps(& wall maps, globes, jigsaw puzzle maps, apple maps …)
Note: Before posting this presentation online, all photos of students were removed or cropped for privacy. Therefore the version you are viewing is not as fun.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/programs/nat-geo-mapmaker-kits/)
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Ask for different kinds of maps they have seen, used, or can imagine. Refer to folder labels. Assemble your table-top map. What do you notice about it? (Group discussion) Wander around and see the maps at other table. Compare and Contrast. There are so many ways to constantly bring geography into any curriculum!
Population CircleSource: https://www.populationeducation.org/sites/default/files/population_circle.pdf
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I created the above worksheet, adapted from the lesson (see above link) to give the students practice at filling in a graph as well as reading one.
Source:Museum of
Tolerancehttp://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.tmL6KfNVLtH/b.9168051/k.69D4/Children_of_the_Holocaust/apps/nl/newsle
tter2.asp
Children of the Holocaust
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I created page sized posters for each child, with their photo and bio (from the website) and the question: Did (child’s name) live or die? (see attachments, posted in the SABES ELA Professional Learning Community). There are many possibilities to work with these. Students become invested in finding out about and sharing knowledge about their child, and are upset when they learn whether that child lived or died. It’s an effective way to personalize the enormous Holocaust statistics.
Previewing & Questioning:First Lines Line-Up
Using Joy Hakim’s War, Peace, and All That Jazz, chapters 26 & 27
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Even though these are written for middle school, they are well written and a good introduction to complicated material. First, everyone gets a numbered slip with one first line on it. We read them out loud in order, and see what patterns emerge. Then each table gets one handout containing around 8 of those first lines. As a group, the table comes up with a question for each of the lines. (See next slide.)
33 Hitler used that idea of racism, and bad blood, and the old anti-Semitic virus to explain Germany’s problems.
34 Besides, many Jews had good jobs and nice homes.
35 Germany went farther down the road of wickedness than any nation in history.
36 “The removal and transportation of Europe’s Jews was a fact known to every inhabitant of the continent,” says John Keegan, a historian of the Second World War.
37 Did all this have anything to do with the United States?
38 That is a good question.
39 Suppose you see someone beating up someone else.
40 What do you do?
First Lines #33 - #40
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First lines #33 - #40
Women’s Work: An Untold Story of the Civil Rights Movement
http://civilrightsteaching.org/about/handouts-sample-lessons/womens-work-an-untold-story-of-the-civil-rights-movement/
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Note: I thought the bio paragraph published on the site (see link) was too brief and lacking in social justice activism compared to the other bios, so I added to it.
U.S. Civil RightsSource: the Southern Poverty Law Centerhttp://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/SPLC%20Civil%20Rights%20Activity%20Book%20web.pdf
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Activity: Match the dates, events, and photographs. Use the timeline for help (but do not just look up the photos online!). What clues do you use to figure things out? Which pictures are you unsure of? What do you notice and wonder about in any given photo? What patterns do you notice? Note: There is an error in the Answer Key of the SPLC “Civil Rights Activity Book”. You can locate it if you check it against the timeline included in that book, shown above.
1955
The Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins
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Photos were found on the web using various search engines, and are under the Creative Commons license or tagged as “free to use non-commercially.”
1960 Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
1963 March on Washington
1964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act
1965 The Voting Rights Act is Passed
1967
Thurgood Marshall joins the Supreme Court
Videos that Featured in UnitsChisholm ‘72: Unbought and Unbossed https://youtu.be/-uk2JuXZMwY ,
http://www.pbs.org/pov/chisholm /
Girl Rising http://girlrising.com/see-the-film/index.html#watch-girl-rising-at-home
Pray the Devil Back to Hell https://youtu.be/bi3nvH_Po5E, http://www.forkfilms.net/pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/#_impact,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97454247
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai https://youtu.be/gzp_GYVv7y0, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/takingroot/
Viva La Causa! http://www.tolerance.org/kit/viva-la-causa
We Still Live Here http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/we-still-live-here/
What about those standards?
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While not every activity can be tied to a specific academic standard, they exemplify the Three Instructional Shifts - big picture view of those standards. Each image above is also a link to its source.
A few ideas …(ask me about them!)Practice and review 2-3 test practice questions: model thinking out loud; when students give answers, ask them to explain their reasoning
Active study strategies
Always question the source
Artifacts
Boston Bussing
Boston Mapping Then and Now
Children of the Holocaust
Civil Rights photos, timeline, map
Country Passports and Round the World Trip
Creating questions based on a reading; turning those questions into a “quiz”
Debates
Duckies for managing the answering of questions in the whole group
Every-Day Edits, Mystery States
Giant wall map / table maps
Imagery for connecting new knowledge with framework (Velcro throw; clothes onto hooks)
Information Cards: Sorting, Organizing, Matching, Playing Memory …
John Snow cholera epidemic mapping solution
Latitude and Longitude questions for the giant wall map or atlas
Making globes out of apples
Mapping a trip from Beijing to New Delhi
Using great documentaries
Photos, Cartoons, Graphs, Charts, …
Patterns, Connections, Statistics and Individuals
Pre-“quizzes” for interest and information
Reading aloud (shared) for dialogue, letters, speeches
Sentence starters
Station Rotation
The WWII timelines
Timeline and Mapping activities (putting together, finding information from …)
Toasts
Voting activity from The Change Agent
Major Wars in the U.S. mini-research group posters
Women Activists activity
These sites were referenced in today’s activities and/or handouts. Detailed activity links are on the relevant slides.http://changeagent.nelrc.org/
http://civilrightsteaching.org
http://ed.ted.com/, https://www.ted.com/
https://www.facinghistory.org/
http://girlrising.com
http://www.joyhakim.com
https://lincs.ed.gov
http://www.mamahope.org
http://www.museumoftolerance.com
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/programs/nat-geo-mapmaker-kits/
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/
http://www.pbs.org/pov
https://www.populationeducation.org
https://www.primarysource.org/
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/
http://sabes.org/pd-center/ela
http://www.tolerance.org
Take-Home Messages
• Make history and social sciences come alive through a combination of looking at the Big Picture and at personal stories and specific examples. See the forest AND the trees!
• Look for patterns and connections.
• Encourage Questions! Lots of questions.
• Play with texts. (In addition to printed words, texts can also be photos, cartoons, graphs, maps, movies, …)
• Think and wonder out loud. Let your passions and curiosity energize your students to follow yours and theirs.
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“Who sponsored this, and what was their agenda? It’s all about stories. Connect to what you know, or to what is familiar. Always ask, “Tell me more – tell me why you think that?”
Thank you! Evaluations & Cleanup
Lakshmi [email protected]
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