Making Thinking Visible Strategies in Social Studies - 4 th and 5 th Grade

1. Making Thinking Visible Strategies in Social Studies - 4th and 5th Grade BISD – April 2014

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

3. Think – Puzzle – Explore

4. What will we do today? • 4th Grade – 21st Century Texas • 5th Grade – 20th Century and 21st Century

5. Think-Puzzle-Explore What makes you say that? What akes you say that?

6. How does this relate to the TEKS? • Process Skills • 4.22C – express ideas orally based on research and experiences • 5.25C – express ideas orally based on research and experiences

7. How would you use Think-Puzzle-Explore in your classroom? Time for a: Turn & Talk

8. Explanation Game

9. Explanation Game • Helps students break down visuals and analyze information • Helps slow down and focus students such as those with attention issues and English Language Learners

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

11. How does this relate to the Social Studies TEKS? • 4.12E – Explain how developments in transportation and communication have influenced economic activities in Texas. • 4.21A Process Skill– differentiate between, locate, and use valid primary and secondary sources such as computer software; interviews; biographies; oral, print, and visual material; documents; and artifacts to acquire information about the United States and Texas

12. Headlines • Headlines is used to focus on the synthesis of learning • This is done after a learning experience

13. What is a headline? 4.11A, 5.11A – summarize the main idea and supporting details in ways that maintain meaning • The head of a newspaper story or article usually printed in large type and giving the gist of the story or article that follows.

14. What does this headline mean? From this headline, can you tell what the article will be about?

15. Let’s Learn about George W. Bush • 4.18A – identify leaders in state, local, and national governments, including the governor, the local members of the Texas Legislature, the local mayor, local U.S. representatives, and Texans who have been president of the United States • 5.19B – identify past and present leaders in the national government, including the president and various members of Congress, and their political parties

16. You could also use…. TCM Primary Source Readers

17. Back to process skills…. • 4.21B – analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions • 5.24B – analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions

18. I used to think…now I think…

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

20. What makes you say that?

21. I Used to Think… Now I Think

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

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

24. Brain Break! • Numbers & Letters • Stand up • Draw the letter ‘A’ in the air while saying ‘one’ • Draw the letter ‘B’ in the air while saying ‘two’ • Speed it up and see if you can make it through Z!