2013 U.S. History Summer Institute

1. 2013 U.S. History Summer Institute Department of Social Sciences Miami-Dade County Public Schools

2. Introduction to Dept. of Social Sciences web resources • Thematic presentation of history • Lesson Planning Using Backwards Design • Item Specifications, Benchmarks, Teaching Strategies, & Changes to U.S. History Instruction • Best Practices • Outside Presenters: • Common Core • Primary Sources Topics to be Covered

3. From the Social Sciences website, teachers can access the U.S. History Toolbox

7. Political History • Military History • Economic History • Social History Thematic Presentation of U.S. History

8. Political Evolution & Constitutional Government • Congressional Power vs. Presidential Power • Supreme Court Cases Political History

9. Major Wars • Military Interventions • The Armed Forces at Home • How the United States Interacted with Other Nations The United States in the World: Military History &Foreign Policy

10. Raising of Taxes & Tariffs • Economic Trade & Development • Economic Systems & Performance Economic History

11. Sectional Tensions • Social Trends & Developments • Civil Rights & Gender Relations • American Religion Social History

12. Know where you want to go, then map out the path Lesson Plans: Backwards Design

13. Instructional Strategies: Political Cartoons

14. Strategies to teach students to analyze primary source documents O.P.V.L. P.O.S.E.R.S. S.O.A.P.S.Tone DBQ Project: Document Based Questions

15. Web Resources