I reworked some of the lessons. My lesson plans tend to be on the basic open ended side as I tend to grow on the move. I'm still struggling with "did I hit the goal I was aiming at". Any suggestions would be helpful.
I would appreciate any ideas on how to improve activities and my essential questions. I also wanted to include a lesson on Slave Culture and how parts of African cultures survived slavery and played a role in the resilience of enslaved people--so ide
I am uploading the lessons separately. You will find them listed down in the replies. Sadly they showed up out of order though they were uploaded in order. Oh well. Feel free to make suggestions.
Cami and I cleaned it up and sent it off to Dale. We are so happy to have a start on this thinking. We learned alot from all of you and it was so interesting for us to participate this way. Our theme planning has new life. Thank you, Pam
Take a few minutes to examine and think about the graphic, below. Based on the history curriculum guide for your grade level, please write a paragraph describing your first thoughts on how you might integrate one or more of these themes in your year
Attached is the list of concepts developed by Freedom House that tracks the state of democratic development around the world. Describe one way that these concepts could be used in a thematic history course?
I know you wanted all of these earlier, but I just got back from 3 1/2 weeks in Germany with the in-laws (it was more fun than it sounds) and I was too jetlagged to get my act together yesterday. I added a 5 paragraph essay as the culminating k
This is suitable for ASD 4th grade Social Studies. We would love to have input from other 4th grade teachers. This is most certainly a work in progress and we are very grateful to Summer Academy and Dr. Dale for the guidance and time to develop thi