K-12 social studies standards in Texas require students to act as amateur historians. In this session, we explored practical ways to have students analyze, infer, and conclude every single day through State Standard 29B.

1. 29B or not to be
Historical thinking made fun

2. Who are we?
Megan Gooding
Social Studies
Instructional Coach
megan.gooding@midlandisd.net
Samantha Hardwick
Social Studies
Instructional Coach
Samantha.hardwick@midlandisd.net

3. Who are we?
Megan Gooding
Social Studies
Instructional Coach
megan.gooding@midlandisd.net
Julie Tidmore
Social Studies
Instructional Coach
julie.tidmore@midlandisd.net

4. Thinking Cards

5. Era Cards

6. Esp Cards

7. Word Walls

8. Fast, fun, & Easy
Short strategies for implementing the skills during class time

9. Time Travel Mystery Bag

10. In 50 years

11. In 50 years

12. In 50 years

13. In 50 years

14. In 50 years

15. A Case of the house frozen in
time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CIpHoi2y8

16. A Case of the house frozen in
time
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2476404/The-house-thats-frozen-time-Eerie-images-inside-
abandoned-Red-Dress-Manor-clothes-wardrobes-photographs-walls-love-letters-strewn-floors.html
Based on the video, Try to determine the
answer to these questions:
•Who lived here?
•When did they leave?
•Where is this home located?

17. Who Said It?
“No man can put a
chain about the ankle
of his fellow man
without at last finding
the other end fastened
about his own neck.”

18. Who Said It?
“No man can put a chain
about the ankle of his
fellow man without at last
finding the other end
fastened about his own
neck.”

19. Who doesn’t belong?

20. Who doesn’t belong?

21. Perspective Piece

22. Mini Timeline

23. What Era?

24. Tweet Exit Tickets

25. Hashtag summary

26. Hashtag summary

27. Hashtag summary

28. Big activities
Class activities for implementing the skills during class time

29. Clue Packs

30. Primary Source Chronology

31. Era Cards

32. What Era?

33. Cause & effect Cards

34. Sort It!

35. Sort It!

36. Have A Hunch
• You are about to view a series of artifacts.
• Guess what they represent as a collective whole.

37. Human timeline

38. Triangle Trade Simulation

39. Connect The dots
• Organize students into pairs, triads, or groups of 4.
• Students (or teachers) select four familiar titles, text excerpts,
concepts, key academic vocabulary terms, etc. (many can be found in
Content Cards)
• Using the Connect the Dots organizer, students label each dot with
one of the ideas. (Each dot has a different idea.)
• Students follow the arrows to find ways in which the ideas connect.
• Students find one, or many, similarities and one, or many, differences
between the aligned dots.
• Students can also find common themes among the pictures
• After connections are made, students can even connect the diagonals

41. Cause & Effect Snowball

42. SToryboarding
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/analyze-text-with-storyboards

43. Think Like A...

44. Silent tea Party
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/pre-reading-strategies

45. Dinner Party

46. MOCK Trial
Hero or Villain?

47. tug of war

48. Keep it or junk it
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/student-run-lesson