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| Written by Jon Herman |
| Friday, 30 January 2009 08:31 |
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Social Studies Department
Titusville is a Gilder Lehrman associate school of American history
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Department mission statement: Students will be empowered with the historical, economic, geographic, and literary skills needed to grow, change, challenge, question, interact and ethically lead in a culturally diverse and technical world.
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Goals: Every year in our classrooms students will...
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Read a novel
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Write a formal paper or essay
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Read expository text
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Be instructed on researching skills
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Use critical reading
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Become better writers
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Use critical thinking
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Be tested on geographic literacy
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Do a class presentation
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Become more independent note takers
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Produce a project using digital media
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Collaberate on a group project
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Participate in a debate
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* Honors offerings available in these courses
Examples of student work from our classrooms...
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Social studies faculty links: | | 100 milestone documents that helped change our nation. Cool stuff. Click the link on the right. | http://www.discoveryeducation.com
| A comprehensive, web-based library of digital resources from Discovery Education that seamlessly integrates standards-based video into your classroom lessons. Check out the digital atlas section. | http://www.ousdstudents.org
| Voted best educational resource 2007. Find resources, timelines, lesson plans and other goodies easily and quickly. |  Social Studies Classroom | Founded by a social studies teacher whose mission was to give social studies teachers the resources, tools and collaboration needed to enhance their classrooms and benefit their students. There is a Google powered search engine, of the entire site, that you can use to find information and resources on just about any topic in the social studies curriculum. | | http://historymatters.gmu.edu
| Designed for high school teachers and college teachers and students. History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history. | Digital History
| Site totally dedicated to United States history. Abundant resources. |
| Need a PowerPoint for tomorrow on any topic. Find it here and, in many cases, download it for free, and then edit to your liking. Name the topic and someone has uploaded a PowerPoint for you on this site. | Cyber School Bus
| United Nations site, similar to CIA World Factbook, but this one may have more powerful tools comparing statistics on the world's nations. | Learning Page
| Also called American Memory. Website provided by the Library of Congress for use teaching American History. | My Wonderful World
| National Geographic project provides a broad view of geography that helps all grasp the world's interdependence. Uses advanced G.P.S. technology that allows students to zoom in on cities and regions to understand how geography is linked to world events. | Gilder Leherman Collection
| Promotes the study and understanding of American history. Site based on the Gilder Lehrman Collection of more than 60,000 documents. | Choices
| Curriculum units, lesson plans, and a teacher's guide. "Teaching with the News" section provides online curriculum materials and ideas on connecting the classroom to the headlines. Excellent Supplemental Materials section. |
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| Snopes
| Can you handle the truth? Put those urban legends to rest by checking out the facts on snopes.com. No you do not swallow up to six spiders a year. |
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