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Exploring U.S. History Through Thematic Presentation and Best Practices

Join the 2013 U.S. History Summer Institute by Miami-Dade County Public Schools for an Introduction to the Dept. of Social Sciences web resources. Learn about thematic history presentation, lesson planning using backward design, item specifications, benchmarks, teaching strategies, and changes to U.S. history instruction. Discover best practices and gain insights from outside presenters on Common Core integration. Explore topics such as political, military, economic, and social history, including political evolution, constitutional government, major wars, military interventions, economic trade, sectional tensions, civil rights, gender relations, and more. Enhance your instructional strategies through political cartoons, primary source analysis, DBQ projects, and web resources.

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Exploring U.S. History Through Thematic Presentation and Best Practices

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  1. 2013 U.S. History Summer Institute Department of Social Sciences Miami-Dade County Public Schools

  2. Introduction to Dept. of Social Sciences web resources • Thematic presentation of history • Lesson Planning Using Backwards Design • Item Specifications, Benchmarks, Teaching Strategies, & Changes to U.S. History Instruction • Best Practices • Outside Presenters: • Common Core • Primary Sources Topics to be Covered

  3. From the Social Sciences website, teachers can access the U.S. History Toolbox

  4. Political History • Military History • Economic History • Social History Thematic Presentation of U.S. History

  5. Political Evolution & Constitutional Government • Congressional Power vs. Presidential Power • Supreme Court Cases Political History

  6. Major Wars • Military Interventions • The Armed Forces at Home • How the United States Interacted with Other Nations The United States in the World: Military History &Foreign Policy

  7. Raising of Taxes & Tariffs • Economic Trade & Development • Economic Systems & Performance Economic History

  8. Sectional Tensions • Social Trends & Developments • Civil Rights & Gender Relations • American Religion Social History

  9. Know where you want to go, then map out the path Lesson Plans: Backwards Design

  10. Instructional Strategies: Political Cartoons

  11. Strategies to teach students to analyze primary source documents O.P.V.L. P.O.S.E.R.S. S.O.A.P.S.Tone DBQ Project: Document Based Questions

  12. Web Resources

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