Session Four

March Madness:

• History Movie Madness bracket

• Using Tournament Brackets to Debate Academic Questions

• A Classroom Competition Merges Historical Research with Public Debate

Your own personal professional learning:

• NCSS Article

  • How Social Studies Improves Elementary Literacy

• InquireEd webinar

  • Making the Case for Elementary Social Studies: Sources as Mirrors and Windows

Homework review:

• Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books

• 10 Criteria for Choosing Diverse Texts for Your Classroom

Lesson Plan designs and examples:

• Nat Geo Resources

• Geo-Inquiry Process

• Inquiry in the Upper Midwest videos

Jessica Ellison:

• Contact Jessica

• Jessica's slide deck

  • Sanborn Maps

  • Library of Congress Bird's Eye maps

  • Library of Congress primary source analysis graphic organizers (including map specific)

  • Dragons

• Facing History Identity Maps

• Virtual Thesaurus Identity Maps

• Primary Sources:

  • Be sure to go back to Jessica's slide deck

  • Nat Geo Resources

  • Kansas State Historical Society Read Kansas Cards & Traveling Trunks

  • National Archives

  • Docsteach

Homework for April 19:

• Office hours

  • April 6 - 3:30

  • April 27 - 3:30

• Read You Have a List of Culturally Diverse Texts. Now What?

• Start thinking about possible books and content for required lesson