Thinking Like A Historian:
- Thinking LIke a Historian website
- Instructional Video for book
- Reading Like a Historian video, Program (AMAZING)
- Developing Historian's reasoning skills
Essential Questions: List of 101 EQs...
Content:
5 themes of Geography: National Geographic (definition and activity ideas)
Immigration Moving Map - very cool
Document Based Questions - AMAZING resource!!
How do you teach Religion and Ethics? New Supreme Court mandated curric (?)
Khan Academy videos - Bill Gates' favorite teacher!
Primary Source Place! (Recommended in Focus)
Mr. Donn's Site - easy to understand definitions
The role of government - Activities and readings from the NY Times. (both sides are represented!)
Our Courts - Civics Education, cool games (Argument Wars - students argue historical Supreme Court cases). This project created by Sandra Day O'Connor. Her goal is to have middle school students understand the workings of the court and the constitution. There are also detailed lesson plans for teachers. Another great site - (These may be the same.)
Bio.com - Biographies of famous people
History in Spanish!
That used to be us... Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum book/video is great motivation for using the CCSS. We need to have teach students be immigrants - there is no legacy, artisans - sign your name to all work, and like the waitress at Perkins - always do your something extra. To keep your job, you must do non-routine work and/or routine work in non-routine ways. (Do old work in news ways and new work in new ways.) Very motivational...
Instruction:
Adapting the textbook.
Primary Source Analysis:
S - Scan for details
I - Identify the conflict
G - Guess the creator's intent
H - Hear the voices
*Other analysis forms from NARA...
Dave's jigsaw of this: Break groups into multiple groups, each group "sigh"s each primary source, they share their first "sigh" with the class. (Other groups have "sigh"ed it as well for classroom discussion and debate.)
- Another interesting approach - OPVL rubric.
- Another more advanced approach - 6 C's, another 6 C's student graphic organizer document, 6 C's training powerpoint
- National History Project - Primary Source links
- Observe, Reflect, Question lesson and graphic organizer.
3. Facing History and Ourselves Training:
Big ideas:
- Use Bystander, Upstander, Victim, and Perpetrator as a theme in history. This also provides a nice connection to bully proofing.
- Make sure each lesson is rigorous and personally rich.
- Each lesson should have Critical Reading (primary documents, different points of view), Writing (journal, quick writes to synthesize reading), Speaking (sharing, discussion), listening, VIEWING, and doing. Doing this creates "habits of mind" that students can use in any discipline.
- View a lot of short clips and then have conversations - move around the room to have multiple conversations
- Ground each day in a guiding QUESTION vs objective. Questions communicate the state of mind in which we should approach history.
- Historian's Journal - use to synthesize learning, consider repeatedly the consequences of decisions
- Facing History has a lending library full of videos and books.
Teaching with Artifacts Training:
Primary sources online.
History - What is past is prologue
When using spicy artifacts, ask, "If it bothers you to see this, think about if the ghosts or actual people were here, what would they want? Would they want you to talk about it? How is this still in existence today? How does that demand that we talk about it?"
Artifact ideas:
Remember, when using artifacts, you've got to know the story!
- Postcards vs pictures or actual artifact
- Ebay - search for what you want and then copy the picture of it.
- Nasa.gov - pieces of artifacts for free, call your class a museum and get it for free, FREE paper models, globes, etc.
- Slave shakels: BudK.com (Use with La Amistad (1st 20 minutes) - view first)
- Dolls - barbie dolls of the world series, legends of the world, myths of the world (dogsoldiers.com - $20/set or each?), paper dolls
- www.harpersweekly.com (4 years for $300) starts in early 1800 - current times; compare and contrast old articles to todays; laminate many times
- Brown Best - replica of guns, they can't shoot
- marbles
- You don't need perfect. Ask students, "How did this get broken? bent? destroyed?"
- Frontier, 1900s, 1940s, etc House - on PBS.org (write an essay, which is best? why?)
- Look at pictures from the time period, find a picture from your childhood that shows a similar pose - compare and contrast the two pictures. (Pictures are powerful)
- Stamps - what do they mean? how do they represent that time period?
- Lead weights for tires from Big O and such.
- Create an archaeology lab / dig site tables
- Black light
- Create a JHMS ARC (Artifact Resource Center)
- Store in copy paper boxes
- Mosaics out of buttons
- Pin art projects to ceiling tiles
- Museum Nights
- History wall/walls
- History in hallway
Videos to use:
- Pale Rider - strip mining
- Waterworld - trade and money, 16 seconds of the ice caps melting
- Mulan - 8 minutes of Great Wall of China
- Lord of the Rings - great clip of the warning fire on the Great Wall of China
- Discovery channel race on Great Wall of China
- Dances with Wolves - director's cut - amazing for US history
- Amazing Grace - slavery, Spanish selling Indians for slaver, human branding
Websites:
- coincoin.com - get coins and replicas, also get manila (slave times)
- PrintFile.com = plastic covers for preserving artifacts
- www.Journeybackintime.com - newspapers available
- Newseum - changes every day, headlines from around the world, read the whole paper if you want, read first page of 15 papers each day
- Animoto - creates video using 10 pictures in 30 seconds
- Befunky - turns your photos into artwork
Consider / Inspiration:
- Teachers create hope
- Consider that all kindergartners consider themselves artists and good students; very few high school seniors still do.http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/.../6cs_primary_source.pdf
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