Teacher Initiated Inquiry Program: Santa Monica High School Team
Better Document-Based Teaching and Learning
Sorted by Teacher Pages:
California Social Studies Standards:
World History Standards page 49+ CST Released Test Items (download here)
US History Standards page 54+ CST Released Test Items (download here)
US Government/Economics Standards p. 61+
| On-Line Professional Development for Teachers |
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Library of Congress On-Line Modules:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/selfdirected/
To search for material sets by standards: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/standards/
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US History--all
Maps, documents & photos
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Center for Teaching History with Technology video tutorials:
http://www.thwt.org/historyvideotutorials.html
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general techniques also sorted by technology on home page
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Check out these lists of virtual field trips:
http://www.calvertnet.k12.md.us/departments/instruction/socialstudies/virtfieldtrip.asp
http://www.techtrekers.com/virtualft.htm
For research on virtual field trips (a case study analyzed in depth):
http://www.citejournal.org/articles/v9i4socialstudies1.pdf
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You have to screen the field trips to see which ones are good to use; uneven quality of sites
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Smithonian Museum's History Explorer: teacher and student resources, sortable by time period, grade level, and topics in history:
http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu
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Grade 11: all standards
Grade 12: U.S. government
Grade 10: some events (WWI, WWII, Cold War, Industrial Revolution)
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Online resources for FDR's administrations, including video from YouTube of fireside chats, and primary source documents:
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/curriculumguides.html
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Grade 11 standards covering Great Depression, FDR's administrations, and World War II
Also has unit materials for Tuskegee Airmen and the Supreme Court
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Podcasts of American university professors giving lectures on their areas of specialty:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/podcasts
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Mostly American history topics from pre-Columbian era to modern times. |
| FactCheckEd features lessons on critical media analysis that you can download or edit for classroom use, based on subject: http://www.factchecked.org/lesson-plans |
Critical thinking standards for all grades; focus is on analyzing data and arguments. Units stretch back to the 2008 campaign. |
| The State of California Department of Education releases materials to help with units and standards. For links to your subject, start here: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/im/ |
Grade 9: Genocide curriculum
Grade 10/11: Civil rights issues and leaders
Grade 12: court cases and presidential library materials
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| The National Humanities Center has collections of primary sources for all age levels through their America In Class web site: http://americainclass.org/sources/ Each of the primary source sets includes documents, artwork, and texts; each also comes with guiding questions, notes. |
Grade 9: The Making of African-American Identity
Grade 10: The Gilded and the Gritty (can be used for Industrial Revolution)
Grade 11: Many Revolutionary through Progressive Era units here.
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