Hello, I have been teaching Social Studies for 19years. I value critical thinking and students seeing themsleves as social agents. Equipping students with these skills should be the cornerstone to all lessons taught in the classroom.
Hello, I have been teaching Social Studies for 19years. I value critical thinking and students seeing themsleves as social agents. Equipping students with these skills should be the cornerstone to all lessons taught in the classroom.
Discard the paper/pencil approach to assessment. This quiz will have students access their knowledge of important facts and information regarding the United States' Civil War in an interactive & engaging way.
This PowerPoint presentation is rich in primary sources and colorful imagery that will prompt students to examine context clues when answering the provided questions.
Aligned with the Common Core Standards, this lesson will encourage students to analyze fictitious scenarios based upon actual Supreme Court cases. This activity can be used in two ways;
1) An assessment- students will apply their prior knowledge concerning the United States’ Constitutional amendments, along with their own ethics and logic, to Supreme Court decisions, or
2) Using the provided cheat sheet, students will be introduced to the Bill of Rights, and its' application to Supreme Court cases.
This PowerPoint presentation is full of interactive visuals, and chronologically aligns itself with the provided student handout.
This lesson includes:
- 1 26 slide Power-Point Presentation
- 1 Power-Point Handout
- 1 Cheat Sheet
This lesson involves having students examine the impacts of the Industrial Revolution in the United States with a specific focus on child labor. It is recommended that students will have explored to some degree the Industrial era prior to this lesson. This lesson will prompt students to analyze social activist Lewis Hines' photographs that depict the various jobs and working conditions of which children were forced to work in. The provided 60 slide power-point and the student handout that accompanies the presentation is interactive, visual, problem posing, and vicariously draws the students into the lives of the children of the Industrial era.
This lesson will have students delve deeper into critical thought, and encourage a social justice perspective by having students compare and contrast the child labor of the Industrial era with the child labor that exists today. A 22 minute documentary film titled "Zoned for Slavery: The Child Behind the Label' supplements this lesson and is available online through U tube in three separate parts:
Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XtYhfcEZ9A
Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QOwNHeAqBE
Part III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klSngDpTlM4
This lesson includes:
- 60 slide power-point presentation
- Teacher lesson plan
- Student power-point handout
- Student Venn diagram handout
