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Social Studies Common Essential A greements. In all classrooms: Make benchmarks to be taught visible during instruction time. Post important vocabulary aligned to the topic. Address the essential questions and make them visible prior and during instruction.
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Social Studies CommonEssential Agreements In all classrooms: • Make benchmarks to be taught visible during instruction time. • Post important vocabulary aligned to the topic. • Address the essential questions and make them visible prior and during instruction. Promote enduring understandings in order to lead students to discover the lasting value of the topic, allowing students to make connections to their lives and how this will help them in the future. All grade levels use performance tasks in individual or collaborative settings, which allow students to experience the topic . This will give the student an opportunity to live experiences through the eyes of an explorer, a scientist, a researcher, a writer, a leader, etc. Through these experiences, the student will be able to constructenduring understandings. All grade teachers will show steps to research, allow students to grow, question and make hypothetical assumptions of the topics.