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is a FREE online community that connects educators across New York State to the valuable primary sources materials found in the churches, museums, historical organizations, libraries, and state and local governments with a series of highly-engaging learning activities designed to guide and encourage students at all grade levels to make discoveries using critical thinking skills.
New Visions- Support for the new US History and Government Regents exam
New Visions- Support for the new US History and Government Regents exam
New Visions for Public Schools and CUNY Debating US History are working together and planning US History professional learning opportunities for 2021-2022. We have received a number of requests from external districts and schools, and we are using this form to begin the scheduling process.
Please note that this form is for schools who are not part of the New Visions network in NYS only.
The New York State Museum’s program
The New York State Museum’s program
The New York State Museum’s program, “The Lives of Enslaved People through the Objects They Left Behind,” is now available online with additional resources for educators. Join Dr. Michael Lucas as he explores how artifacts excavated at the 18th-century John Bogart House site in Albany provide insight into enslaved individuals and how they claimed some power and control over their own lives through the manipulation of material objects. Educators can earn 2 hours of CTLE credit by watching the webinar and completing the survey available with the recorded program.
Please contact the Office of Curriculum and Instruction at 518-474-5922 or standards@nysed.gov with any questions.
PBS Materials for grades 9-12
Stanford History Education Group
Stanford History Education Group
With instruction moving online for many schools around the world, the Stanford History Education Group stands ready to support educators during this transition. Our Reading Like a Historian lessons, Beyond the Bubble assessments, and Civic Online Reasoning curriculum can all be readily adapted for remote learning. As always, all of our materials are available for free. Please reach out if you have any questions about using our resources.
New Visions
New Visions
Instructional and Planning Resources
Are you new to our curriculum? Take a look at our Curriculum Overviews:
Take a look at the revised units we have developed for blended and virtual instruction as the year begins:
Looking for support with planning for synchronous and asynchronous instruction? Check out the templates and guides in this Teacher Planning Handbook.
Engaging Students in Tragic Current Events
Engaging Students in Tragic Current Events
As Social Studies teachers, we often need to help our students reflect on, and make sense of, painful current events. Here are some resources that will support you in engaging your students in conversations about the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor:
As Social Studies teachers, we often need to help our students reflect on, and make sense of, painful current events. Here are some resources that will support you in engaging your students in conversations about the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor:
OER History Project
OER History Project
PBS Learning Series
PBS Learning Series
PBS Learning Series
PBS Learning Series
New Visions
New Visions
How to Use the New Visions Social Studies Remote Learning Resources
Instructional Materials and Webinars for Remote Learning
New materials are now available, designed specifically for remote learning in social studies at remote.newvisions.org! Join a webinar to learn more.
If you are interested in a webinar but cannot join live, please register anyway! We will send the recording and materials out a few days afterward.
Materials
Materials
GLOBAL HISTORY: Remote Learning Plan for Apartheid
This two-week learning plan includes historical content, a review sheet and concept map activity, cause and effect chain activity, CRQ and multiple choice practice, enduring issues check-in, and an opportunity to draw connections to current events.
US HISTORY: 1619 Project
This is a plan for US History teachers who want to teach Nikole Hannah-Jones' essay, "The Idea of America," and have students think about the civil rights movement and US History.
COVID-19: Creating Primary Sources for Future Historians
In these activities students create their own primary sources based on their experiences during the pandemic, then write a letter to a future historian contextualizing and sourcing what they create.
What It Is: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics in 2009 to transform the field through innovative, free educational video games and lessons that teach students to be knowledgeable, curious, and engaged in civic life. Today, iCivics is the nation’s largest provider of civic education curriculum, with our resources used by over 113,000 educators and more than 7.1 million students each year nationwide.
A National Geographic Explorer hosts LIVE calls with Nat Geo Explorers around the world. Students can tune in from home (it’s free and they have adjusted their usual plan for students to access live calls from home) via YouTube Live and ask questions via IM in real-time. For a schedule of upcoming calls - GO HERE and scroll down on the website to see the upcoming schedule. For students to participate in the scheduled calls LIVE - GO HERE. It is all free.
New York State Archives Partnership Trust- activities, graphic organizers and more
SmartHistory - official provider of art history for khanacademy.org; also supports AP art history and A-level curriculum.
TED-Ed Social Studies animated lessons - interesting/fun animations that describe social studies topics. Teachers can login and create an account and students can do the same - teachers have a dashboard and can see student responses to ready-to-go lessons with questions (MS/HS) - free
Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) (MS/HS) - great for downloadable ready-to-go primary source documents. - US History Lessons with Resources - free and teachers can create a login and share resources with students.
Global II Review Guide created by one of our teachers at Alfred E. Smith can be distributed to students for review with multiple choice questions from the Regents Prep plan.
Global II Review Video (1 hour) can be used to help students understand the structure and content of the exam
TED - ED History (sort for US History videos)
Consider the Source Online: Teaching With Historical Records
New Visions Curriculum
New Visions Curriculum
How did technological innovation impact the Age of Exploration?
What was the impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Old World and New World?
Regents Prep: This can be an opportunity to have students prepare for the Regents by:
What is the International Criminal Court? What purpose does it serve?
Government and the Economy Inquiry
Social Studies External Digital Resources and Tools
New Visions Social Studies Curriculum Website
And don't forget that you can adapt any of our existing materials for use in a remote context. Click here for a video that explains how to edit our materials so you can modify them for your students. Take a look at some of the resources in these upcoming units:
Infobase/Facts on File
Infobase/Facts on File
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