Social Studies
Curriculum - Social Studies
Written by Jon Herman   
Friday, 30 January 2009 08:31

Social Studies Department

Titusville is a Gilder Lehrman associate school of American history

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.

Goals: Every year in our classrooms students will...

Read a novel

Write a formal paper or essay

Read expository text

Be instructed on researching skills

Use critical reading

Become better writers

Use critical thinking

Be tested on geographic literacy

Do a class presentation

Become more independent note takers

Produce a project using digital media

Collaberate on a group project

Participate in a debate

 

 

 

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Pennsylvania Studies
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This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 7 Global Awareness I
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This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Dept. chair) 8 Global Awareness II

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 9 American Cultures I, Psychology

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This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 10 American Cultures II*, Criminal Justice

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 11,12 US & World*, A. Studies II, A. Studies III
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* Honors offerings available in these courses

Examples of student work from our classrooms...

6th grade PA Studies

 

10th grade American Cultures II

7th grade Global Awareness I

 

11th grade U.S. & the World

8th grade Global Awareness II

 

12th Government & Economics

9th grade American Cultures I

 

 

Social studies faculty links:

PolitifactOUR DOCUMENTS

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 logoSocial 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.
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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