ESU 4 Social Studies Cadre

1. ESU 4 Social Studies Cadre Toby Boss ESU 6

2. Agenda • Social Studies Standards Update (what can be reported at this point) • Craft Knowledge • Engagement Strategies • Line up – friendly controversy • Fold the line • Split the line • Run the Tournament • Flash Cards • Academic Games • Differentiation

3. Craft Knowledge • Name it. • Describe it. • who, what, when, how • Say why it’s good. • why “…the knowledge about the practice that is collected, codified, legitimated, and shared by professionals.” (Burney, 2006)

4. Craft Knowledge Record

5. Using the Form • Add each concept or technique to the form • We will use this in the final activity

6. Primacy-Recency Effect • During a learning episode we remember best that which comes first, second best that which comes last and least that which comes just past the middle. • Applies from the time period from state change to state change.

7. Primacy-Recency from How the Brain Learns by David Sousa

8. Engaging Students • On some good days we may have 70% of our students engaged in learning. • Good teachers make sure that it is a different 70% that is engaged throughout our time with the students and all students are engaged at some point in time.

9. So why is it necessary to change up instruction?As your brain gets numb-er Your brain gets dumber

10. Changing STATESChange up instruction 5-10 min. for pre-adolescents, andEvery 10-20 minutes for adolescents into adults.

11. Thinking About It • Why would you want to change states when you finally have students quiet, sitting in their seats, and looking like they are listening to you? • Because the brain needs a chance to refocus and start again. • When you stand up blood flow to the brain increases.

12. The Importance of Processing Time • The brain needs time to create connections and pathways to create long term memories. • The hippocampus can only hold so much • Example of glass of water. • Too much, to fast, it won’t Last. • 10-2 or 5-1 rule

13. Synapses or Brain BreaksJudith Willis • Change activates and turns on different parts of the brain. • Dopamine is a pleasure neurotransmitter that makes you feel good and is released during certain activities and depletes over time. • Dopamine, a neurotransmitter, needs an opportunity to recharge and rebuild. • Brain breaks (synapses) help to replenish.

14. Boosting Retention Average Retention Rate after 24 hours Lecture 5% 10% Reading 20% Audio-visual 30% Demonstration 50% Discussion Groups 75% Practice by doing 90% Teach others/immediate use of learning Adapted from David Sousa’s figure 3.9 in his text, How the Brain Learns p 95

15. Art and Science of Teaching • Question #5: What will I do to engage students? • What do I typically do to use physical movement? • What do I typically do to use friendly controversy? • What do I typically do to use academic games?

16. Line Up • Students line up along a continuum based on their opinion. • Based on a prompt. • Ours will be Reality TV • Let’s generate a list of social studies prompts.

17. Run the Tournament • On a notecard list 5 important historical events. • The more diverse events the better • Let’s get a list of the 8 best

18. Running the Tournament • This activity is designed to help you become familiar with several topics, not necessarily to determine a winner. • Become familiar with the concept that is on your card. • Place the cards on the table in a bracket • From each pair decide which card moves on to the next round. • Complete the rounds until a single card is left. • You may select a runner up from all of the cards that did not advance.

20. Flash Cards • The students need to possess academic vocabulary • Flash cards can be used for a variety of activities: • Inside- outside circle • Run the tournament • I have.. Who has… • Who am I? • Flash card demo

21. Research on The Use of Games to Improve Student Learning Marzano Research Lab reports the results of three meta-analyses. Student growth in classrooms that used games ranged from a 13 percentile gain to an 18 percentile gain. This is significant.

22. TABOO president This favorite game is a great tool for students to practice vocabulary and summarize. The object is to get someone to say the word using clues that don’t use the “taboo” words. Obama White House Republican Washington Lincoln

23. TABOO Star Wars Luke Skywalker Darth Vader Yoda Movie Princess Leia

24. TABOO Abraham Lincoln Civil War President Assassination John Wilkes Boothe Ford’s Theater

26. Create Your Own • Write a taboo term or concept on a notecard • List up to 5 taboo words

27. Who am I? • On note cards, teacher writes names of people studied in class, vocabulary words, places or things from content. • Student puts on top hat (or baseball cap) or sticky note, and chooses a card without looking at it. The other student tapes the card to the hat, or put the sticky note on his/her back. • The student determines the name on the card by asking yes or no questions.

28. Who am I? • Let’s play. • In your group, pick one person to turn away from the screen. • The name appears on screen. • The “It” person asks yes or no questions until he or she answers correctly.

29. Who Am I? • Bill Gates

30. Who Am I? • Jacqueline Kennedy

31. Social Studies Examples: Who am I?Elementary • Daniel Boone • Amelia Earhart • Abraham Lincoln

32. Social Studies Examples: Who am I?Middle School • Albert Einstein • Dwight Eisenhower • Sigmund Freud

33. Social Studies Examples: Who am I?High School • Joan of Arc • Ulysses S. Grant • Aristotle

34. Other Examples?

35. What Am I? • The Constitution • Republic • Democracy • Free trade • States Rights • Electoral College

36. Create a list • Create a list to use for “who, or what am I?”

37. Don’t forget to use physical movement. • Stand up and stretch (the oxygen effect) • Body representations (acting out important content) e.g. have four students do a visual representation of a cell • Give one, get one (standing, students compare notes and identify additions) • Vote with your feet (Correct? Partially correct? Incorrect?)

38. Talk a Mile a Minute

39. Presidents Lincoln Washington Jackson Wilson Ford Carter Clinton

40. Things associated with the American Civil War Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant Gettysburg Slavery Antietam Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln

41. Things associated with the 1960’s JFK Assassination Woodstock Bob Dylan Cuban Missile Crisis Civil Rights March on Washington RFK Assassination 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago LBJ

42. Name that Category

43. 200 POINTS Things you find in a tackle box 100 POINTS 100 POINTS Types of music Things a shark would say 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS Nursery Rhymes Actors Liquids

44. 200 POINTS Things that happened in the 1970’s 100 POINTS 100 POINTS Things Albert Einstein would say Types of government 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS States Song Titles Battles

45. 200 POINTS Things you find in China 100 POINTS 100 POINTS Types of weapons Things MLK Jr. would say 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS Rivers Cities Presidents

46. Summary • How can academic games help students learn? • What games do you want to try? • Talk a Mile a Minute, Name that Category and a Jeopardy power point are posted on the ESU 4 SS wiki at http://esu4socialstudiescadre.wikispaces.com/Resources

47. Different Kids… Different Ways Differentiation June 21, 2011

49. One Description "Differentiated instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get at' and express learning." --Carol Ann Tomlinson

50. Or… • The teacher adjusts content, process, and product in response to student readiness, interests, and learning profile.