Social Studies
   and the
                               21st century
Common Core                       quality
                                instruction




                 Glenn Wiebe
                 glennw@essdack.org
                 ESSDACK
Based on educational
 research, can you make a
 difference in student
 learning?
Coleman Report 1966

Concluded that the quality of
schooling a student receives
accounts for only 10% of the
“variance in student
achievement.”
Jenks Report 1972

 “. . . differences in test scores
 are due to factors that
 schools do not control.”
Brophy / Good 1986

 “The myth that teachers don’t
 make a difference in . . .
 learning has been refuted.”
Mehta / Foorman 2005

 “Students who spent a year in
 classrooms taught by teachers
 who use research-based
 strategies are more likely to out-
 perform those students who did
 not.”
50th

3rd
What does an “ineffective
 teacher” look like?
living on just
     the first
       floor
describe, collect,
         recall, tell, list,


data
96th
What does an “effective
 teacher” look like?
living on all
the floors
compare, explain, interpret,
          cause, evaluate, infer,


information
evaluate, imagine, persuade,
        judge, conclude, problem



knowledge
knowledge
information
       data
“the cogent
Common Core   reasoning and
              use of evidence
              essential to
              responsible
              citizenship in a
              democratic
              republic.”
Common Core
              Getting
              Students to
              Think Like
              Historians
Social Studies Central
 www.socialstudiescentral.com
“Teaching the
    Common
       Core”
                partner &
                review a
                lesson
revise current
    standards
                 focus on
                 process, not
                 content
what does this sort of
historical thinking look like?
how are
history students different
than historians?
kids see
history as
answers
kids see
history as
answers
             historians see
             history as
             problems
why the
difference?
examine source
         information
                        evaluate multiple
                        accounts &
                        perspectives
   apply evidence to
      support claims
                        analyze primary
                        sources
understand historical
             context
examine source
        information
                        evaluate multiple
                        accounts &
                        perspectives
   apply evidence to
     support claims
                        analyze primary
                        sources
understand historical
             context
“What really happened in Boston on
 March 5, 1770?”
a magic wand or window
frame also works
mini DBQs

    map hook activity
examine source
       information
                        evaluate multiple
                        accounts &
                        perspectives
   apply evidence to
     support claims
                        analyze primary
                        sources
understand historical
             context
Slavery quotes
Discrepant Event Inquiry
Riddle / problem / question
Yes or no questions only
Timed
We never would have found this
 person if the person hadn’t been so
 hard to find.
In 1837, a boy named John and his
  six brothers and sisters lived on a
  farm in a beautiful, wooded area in
  Tennessee. His family planted corn
  & raised animals for food and milk.
  His father was a lawmaker and his
  mother taught English in a local
  school. They were happy &
  prosperous.
In 1839, the family moved to a dry,
  treeless, flat prairie where it was
  difficult to raise enough food to
  survive. Three of John’s siblings died.
  Unable to make a living farming, his
  father went back to being a legislator
  and his mother wrote for a newspaper.
  They missed their home in the
  mountains.
when? where? what?
When? Where? What?
When? Where? What?
“Backwards” DEI
Paul Harvey
 The Rest of the Story

William Bruce
Mindtronics
Inquiry Alive
Discrepant Event Inquiry
examine source
        information
                        evaluate multiple
                        accounts &
                        perspectives
   apply evidence to
     support claims
                        analyze primary
                        sources
understand historical
             context
I pledge allegiance to my flag
and to the republic for which it
stands, one nation indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
I pledge allegiance to my flag
and to the republic for which it
stands, one nation indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.


     I pledge allegiance to the flag of
  the United States of America, and
    to the republic for which it stands,
   one nation under God, indivisible,
          with liberty and justice for all.
who started the
Revolutionary War?

         how do you know?
historical fiction

     create Fact / Fiction / Not Sure
     graphic organizer
Children of the
             Dust Bowl




Out of the
     Dust
examine source
        information
                        evaluate multiple
                        accounts &
                        perspectives
  apply evidence to
     support claims
                        analyze primary
                        sources
understand historical
             context
emotional
 envisioning
one side write
 what you see

the other
 what you feel
what did you see?
what did you feel?
what do they all
 have in common?
The Ruby Bridges Story
how and why
   did racism
        start?

can you prove
     that it has
       ended?
Quick Draw
  for Points

          Read Kansas. Traveling
           the Oregon Trail
Summarizing
   Pyramid

         Read Kansas. Traveling
          the Oregon Trail
Pie Chart activity

         Causes of the Civil War
slavery, economics, states rights?
Google Earth activity

             Where was the “West?”
Literacy activities

   Word Sorts

   List / Group / Label

   History Frame
Appendix B

             sample performance
              tasks
examine source
         information
                        read multiple accounts
                        & perspectives
     use evidence to
      support claims
                        analyze primary
                        sources
understand historical
             context
story timeline




                 Jeannie Baker
                  Window
TED-Ed

         Video and critical
          thinking
geography & maps

           google earth
Caroline Starr
        Rose
       May B
Toni Morrison
 Remember:
The Journey
    to School
  Integration


                I Am Poem
othe r goodies?
primary sources
      DocsTeach




                  docsteach.org
teaching resources
      ThinkFinity




                thinkfinity.org
teaching resources
      Smithsonian




       smithsonianeducation.org
professional growth
 National History
  Education Clearinghouse




              teachinghistory.org
primary sources
      Library of Congress




             loc.gov/teachers
primary sources
      National Archives




            archives.gov/education
problem solving
      H.S.I.




               web.wm.edu/hsi/
problem solving
          Historical Thinking




      historicalthinkingmatters.org
digital resources
      History with Technology




                    thwt.org
great books
      Notable Tradebooks




         socialstudies.org/notable
clean web pages
      Readability




                  readability.com
online bibliography
       BibMe




               bibme.org
next steps?
best practices in
       discipline

                    identify possible texts

   adapt current
     instruction
                    communicate with
                    ELA
have more questions?
   contact:
 Glenn Wiebe
 glennw@essdack.org
 socialstudiescentral.com
 historytech.wordpress.com

 View presentations at:
 slideshare.net/glennw98

Common Core and the Social Studies Classroom