Social Studies
and the C4
Framework
quality
instruction in
the 21st
century
Glenn Wiebe
glennw@essdack.org
ESSDACK
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“If you wanted to
create an
educational
environment that
was directly
opposed to what
the brain is good
at doing . . .
“. . . you would
probably design
something like a
modern
classroom.”
John Medina

Brain Rules
sticky idea?
historical thinking
rewires brains
rewiring brains is a
good thing
standards & assessment
resources
questions
some examples
where & when
was this photo
taken?
no googling!
how about
this one?
does this
help?
the standards
what do you know?
what questions do you have?
Kansas standards
“Social Studies content is the
vehicle for demonstrating
mastery, not the destination.”
NCCS

College, Career, and Civic Life
Framework for Inquiry
Choices have consequences
Individuals have rights and
responsibilities
Societies are shaped by beliefs, ideas,
and diversity
Societies experience continuity and
change over time
Relationships between people, place,
ideas, and environments are dynamic
new “delta”
indicators
focus is on
benchmarks
recognize and evaluate
analyze context and draw
conclusions
investigate and connect
construct/create and justify/
defend
2013 - 2014 

pilot items



2014 - 2015

field test



2015 - 2016

full assessment
proposed
timeline
how is this different than
the old standards?
but what
does that
look like?
- The C4 FRAMEWORK -
COLLECT COLLABORATE
CREATE COMMUNICATE
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collect
communicate
collaborate
create
Malaga Cove Elementary School

Los Angeles County, CA
1930
what questions do you have?
write them on post-it notes
sort them by “googleable” and
“un-googleable”
answer the “googleable”
Bellamy
Salute

1892-1942
use the “un-googleable” to
align to standards and
benchmarks
modeling
document
analysis
John Barker
Read Aloud
modeling
document
analysis
text, context, subtext
sourcing

contextualize
read between the lines
primary sources
analysis worksheets
sheg.stanford.ed
21st century curriculum
Reading Like an Historian
three stage
media
analysis
data
information
knowledge
how are they
different?
how are they
the same?
which of these images depicts
actual events?
!
how do you know?
kahoot.it
PIN #
A B
C
In those days, they had rabbit drives. The rabbits got so thick, yeah,
we had rabbit drives . . . somebody organized it and we made a big
circle, then we’d close in on ‘em, had a big pen out in the middle
and boy, the jack rabbits, they squealed.
One time, just south of the river, we had a drive. We circled clear
around about four miles; we walked about two miles. And never let
‘em go by and drove ‘em into that pen, and people got in there with
clubs, and clubbed ‘em to death. And then they got some money out
of the rabbits.
They had to do something with the rabbits eating the crops, they’d
just eat it down to nothin’. There were so many . . . And it helped
out.


Elmer Wetzel

Born September 1908

Ford County, Kansas
“un-googleable” question that
aligns to standards?
does how we live change
depending on when and where
we live?
Literacy
activities
history frame
word sorts
quick draw
book bits
summarizing
pyramid
bibme.org
online bibliography
BibMe
Social Studies Central

www.socialstudiescentral.com
collect
communicate
collaborate
create
surviving a zombie apocalypse?
goo.gl/FXEw8E
who what why how ?
padlet.com/wall/howdidhedie
reflection
Padlet
thinglink.com
reflection
Thinglink
collect
communicate
collaborate
create
tourbuilder.withgoogle.com
Google Earth tours
iCivics
icivics.org
Mission US
mission-us.org
stopdisastersgame.org
Stop Disasters
Pursued
pursued.nemesys.hu
serious games
gamesforchange.org
SimCityEdu
simcityedu.org
MineCraftEdu
minecraftedu.com
commercial games
Gaming the Past: Using
Video Games to Teach
Secondary History

Jeremiah McCall
Using Games in the History
Classroom

teachinghistory.org
less complex?
this image
shows . . .
a connection
between then &
now would be . . .
make a
prediction
write lines of
dialogue
iPhone from the past
iOS digital storytelling
Storehouse
collect
communicate
collaborate
create
Causes of World
War One?
pie chart activity
imperialism, nationalism,
alliance system
beyondthebubble.stanford.edu
21st century assessment
Beyond the Bubble
docsteach.org
DocsTeach
primary sources
who started the
Revolutionary War?
how do you know?
what are you
zinking about?
essdk.me/ZUo
have more questions?
Glenn Wiebe

glennw@essdack.org

glennwiebe.org

socialstudiescentral.com



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The Social Studies Classroom and the C4 Framework (Grades 6-12)