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Making Thinking Visible Strategies through Social Studies Kindergarten and 1st

Making Thinking Visible Strategies through Social Studies Kindergarten and 1st. BISD – April 2014. Let’s get started. Before we start, let’s review what it feels like to be a Kinder or 1 st Grade teacher What its like every day. Think – Puzzle – Explore. What will we do today?.

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Making Thinking Visible Strategies through Social Studies Kindergarten and 1st

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  1. Making Thinking Visible Strategies through Social Studies Kindergarten and 1st BISD – April 2014

  2. Let’s get started • Before we start, let’s review what it feels like to be a Kinder or 1st Grade teacher • What its like every day

  3. Think – Puzzle – Explore

  4. What will we do today? • Kindergarten – Unit 14 • 1st Grade – Unit 18 • This will be an example, of how Making Thinking Visible Strategies can fit into a multi-day unit .

  5. Think-Puzzle-Explore What makes you say that? What akes you say that? K.14A and 1.17A Social Studies Process Skills – Obtain information about a topic through a variety of valid sources such as conversations.

  6. Let’s review • Community – a group of people living in the same place

  7. Homes Post Office Shopping School Grocery store Hospital Apartments Police Station

  8. Let’s use a poem

  9. Let’s review • Service - helping or doing work for someone

  10. Community Service • Community service – is work that helps people

  11. Many community organizations help • Red Cross • United Way • Food Banks • Churches

  12. Explanation Game

  13. Let’s Play the Explanation Game 2. Explain it – Explain what it is you see. 1. Name it – Name what you see. 3. Give reasons – What in the picture makes you think that? 4. Give alternatives – What else could it be?

  14. Let’s talk about community service Community Service

  15. Key Elements in Community Service • Meets a real need • Coordinates with a community agency, another school or class, or the community at large

  16. Headlines • Headlines is used to focus on the synthesis of learning • This is done after a learning experience • Poem • Visual • Think-Puzzle-Explore

  17. What is a headline? • The head of a newspaper story or article usually printed in large type and giving the gist of the story or article that follows. • What do you think would be in an article titled “School Rules” ?

  18. Great activity for a writing station • What could be a headline for an article about Community Service? • Students could write a sentence • Students could draw a picture to go along with that sentence. Now it is your turn. At your table, please use a scratch sheet of paper to write a headline about community service.

  19. Real Life, Authentic Learning… • Students are involved in the decision making • What are the problems in my school or neighborhood? • What ideas do we have to help with these problems? • What is Philanthropy? • Giving and Me

  20. Let’s brainstorm areas of need in our community or school.

  21. Let’s take a vote • Voting – a method for group decision making

  22. I Used to Think… Now I Think What makes you say that?

  23. I Used to Think… Now I Think

  24. Where could I find this information after the training? Strategies and Structures is located under Yearly Content Documents

  25. Where could I find this information after the training?

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