Session Seven

1. Session Seven Social Studies

2. Social Studies • Social studies is a broad topic; • It includes many different subjects • Anthropology • Archaeology • Economics • Geography • History • Law related education • Philosophy • Political science • Psychology • Religion • sociology

3. Social Studies • National associations and governmental committees have developed ten standards or themes that they would like

4. Social Studies Standards • Culture: Social studies programs • should include experiences that provide for the study of culture and cultural diversity;

5. Social Studies Standards • 2. Time, Continuity, and Change: • Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the past and its legacy;

6. Social Studies Standards • 3. People, Places, and Environments: • Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments;

7. Social Studies Standards • 4. Individual, Development and Identity: • Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of individual development and identity;

8. Social Studies Standards • 5. Individuals, Groups, and Institutions: • Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions;

9. Social Studies Standards • 6. Power, Authority, and • Governance: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people create, interact with, and change structures of power, authority, and governance;.

10. Social Studies Standards • 7. Production, Distribution, and • Consumption: • Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people organize for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services;

11. Social Studies Standards • 8. Science, Technology, and • Society: • Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of relationships among science, technology, and society;

12. Social Studies Standards • 9. Global Connections: Social • studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of global connections and interdependence; and

13. Social Studies Standards • 10. Civic Ideals and Practices: • Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the ideals, principles, and practices of citizenship in a democratic republic.

14. Social Studies Strategies • Social Studies is often dependent on reading, since many Diverse Learners have difficulty reading it makes it more challenging • The use of mediators such as advanced organizers, concept maps, study guides, interspersed questions can greatly help Diverse learners

15. Social Studies Strategies • These mediators serve three functions • They direct students attention to the most important ideas in the textbook • They focus the attention on the organizational structure of the texts • The require rehearsal by asking students to write down

16. Social Studies Strategies • These mediators are helpful for working with not only textbooks, but before field trips, plays and other activities. • Social studies has become very dependent on textbooks- • It is also dependent on traditional assessment- There is a push to use more authentic assessments

17. Social Studies Big Ideas • Only a few big ideas need to be taught to cover a whole years worth of work. • Big Ideas take a different approach with social studies • Rather than be concepts, they are approaches or themes for examining social studies issues or events

18. Social Studies Big Ideas • Problem-solution-Effect- • Students look at a situation and and determine the problems, the potential solutions and the effect of the solutions • It can be applied many times to different situations. • Jamestown • Colonial war • WWI

19. Social Studies Big Ideas • Problem-solution-Effect- • Problems usually take on two different types • Economic- • Human rights

20. Social Studies Big Ideas • Problem-solution-Effect- • Solutions usually take on five different types • Move • Invent • Domination • Accommodation Tolerate

21. Social Studies Big Ideas • Problem-solution-Effect- • Effects- Solutions to problems produce consequences or effects . Sometimes the effect creates a new problem • Exploration of USA • Problem- human rights- denial of religious freedom • Solution- move to the new world • Effect- created a new country that challenged authority of homelands • This approach can be applied to many aspects of history and provide a deep understanding

22. Social Studies Big Ideas • Multiple Perspective – This is another idea- it has the notion that events can be viewed from many perspectives and that these different perspectives are important to fully understand social events • The revolutionary war • Over here they were perceived as heroes • Traitors, terrorist

23. Social Studies Big Ideas • Factors of group success- this big ideas, has students look at what makes the success of a group effort such as wars or the establishment of a colony • It is based on four factors: • Motivation- members committed to a common goal • Leadership- have highly qualified knowledgeable, effective leaders • Resources- successful groups have ample resources • Capability- successful groups have quality know-how

24. Social Studies Big Ideas • Factors of group success- this big ideas, has students look at what makes the success of a group effort such as wars or the establishment of a colony • It is based on four factors: • Motivation- members committed to a common goal • Leadership- have highly qualified knowledgeable, effective leaders • Resources- successful groups have ample resources • Capability- successful groups have quality know-how

25. Social Studies Big Ideas • If students are exposed to these four factors enough, students can analyze the strengths and weaknesses of group efforts in almost any realm • These methods have a great deal of real life applications

26. Social Studies Scaffolding • Scaffolding can be divided into activities that a teacher can do before, during and after reading a text, viewing a the video or playing a simulation • Before instruction- prepare questions to a lesson that can be interspersed during the lesson- Questions prepared before a lesson reduce the number of irrelevant or obscure questions • Before instruction- - it is also helpful to identify prerequisite skills and information

27. Social Studies Scaffolding • During instruction- intersperse the questions that were prepared. Ask them close to the time when you cover the material • Before instruction- use oral reading- allows you to correct decoding problems, prevents students from skipping materials, allows time for students to process the material

28. Social Studies Scaffolding • After instruction- use graphic organizers as a means of review of the material-

29. Social Studies Integration • The goal is to help students gain a deeper understanding of the content • Provide opportunities to apply the skills • Low performing students get confused with similar ideas example- some students get confused with the Declaration of independence and the constitution • Diverse learners have great need for being primed with background knowledge • Establish connections between concepts- a good way is to use a compare and contrast of events such as between: • Jamestown, Roanoke, pilgrims, Puritans