This document provides an overview of strategies and resources for teaching social studies using a Common Core approach. It emphasizes developing literacy skills through social studies content by having students collect information, collaborate, create new understanding, and communicate their ideas. Examples include analyzing primary sources, discussing different perspectives, asking questions to guide inquiry, and connecting past events to students' own lives. The goal is to help students see the relevance of social studies for understanding themselves and their role in society.

1. Social Studies
and the
Common Core
quality
instruction in
the 21st
century
Glenn Wiebe
glennw@essdack.org
ESSDACK

2. literacy stuff
state standards
resources
questions
examples

3. “The brain developed to solve
problems relating to surviving in
an unstable, outdoor environment
and to do so in near constant
motion.”
!
John Medina
Brain Rules

4. can I eat it?

5. can it eat
me?

6. can I have sex
with it?

7. what then . . .
is our job?

8. convince an eight
year old that doing
social studies is
essential for her
survival

9. what does
that look like?

10. find a buddy

11. what do you
see?

15. how are they
different?
how are they
the same?

17. My name is Walking-Dog. I lived a long time ago. I am an
Osage boy. The sun is coming up. I am getting ready for a
busy day. Today my brothers and I will help our father. We
will go hunting near our home. We hunt for deer and
rabbits. We will eat some sweet, wild berries when we hunt.
My sisters will help our mother. She is cooking buffalo meat
and wild potatoes in a stew. It will cook all day long.
When we come home from hunting, we eat the buffalo stew.
Then we will sit around the fire and talk. My grandfather
tells us stories. He tells us about our history. I like to hear
my grandfather tell stories. I learn many things from my
grandfather.
The sun has gone down. It is dark in our lodge. It is time to
go to sleep. Tomorrow will be another busy day.

18. My name is Sarah. I lived a long time ago. I am a pioneer
girl. The sun is coming up. I am getting ready for a busy
day. Today my sisters and brothers and I will go to school.
I help my mother make a lunch for me to take to school. I
will take a piece of fried chicken for lunch. I will take an
apple, too. My brothers help our father. They milk the
cows. My sisters and I feed the chickens.
We walk a mile to go to school. Our teacher helps us to
read. We learn many things from our teacher at school. At
the end of the day we walk home again. After dinner
Papa reads the Bible to us. I learn many things when Papa
reads to us.
The sun has gone down. It is dark in our cabin. It is time to
go to sleep. Tomorrow will be another busy day.

19. How is your day the same and
different as Walking Dog and
Sarah?

20. Common Core
“the cogent reasoning and
use of evidence essential
to responsible citizenship
in a democratic republic.”

21. the state
standards
are
different!
!21

22. “Social Studies content is the
vehicle for demonstrating
mastery, not the destination.”

26. - The C4 FRAMEWORK -
COLLECT COLLABORATE
CREATE COMMUNICATE
Find even more C4 information, resources, and useful goodies at www.ceefour.com

27. collect
communicate
collaborate
create

28. three stage
media
analysis
data
information
knowledge

29. what do you
see?

36. how are they
different?
how are they
the same?

37. which of these images depicts
actual events?
!
how do you know?

39. kahoot.it
PIN #

41. 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

43. what questions do you have?
write them on post-it notes

44. sort them by “googleable” and
“un-googleable”
answer the “googleable”

45. use the “un-googleable” to
align to standards and
benchmarks

46. does how we live change
depending on when and where
we live?

47. Questions start with
words like:
Who? What?
Where? When?
Why? How?

48. What is happening in this photograph?
How many people are in the photograph?
Where is Dwight?

49. What is happening in this photograph?
How many people are in the photograph?
Where is Dwight?

51. kshs.org
Read Kansas!
great lessons

52. how can we
model
document
analysis?

53. text, context, subtext
sourcing
contextualize
read between the lines

54. primary sources
analysis worksheets

55. The First Thanksgiving 1621. Painted in 1932 by J. L. G. Ferris

56. “The painting The First Thanksgiving 1621 is
a useful resource for historians who wish to
understand the relationship between the
Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrim settlers
in 1621.”
!
Do you agree or disagree?
Briefly support your answer.

57. SOAP S - speaker or
subject
O - occasion?
A - audience?
P - purpose of the
document?

58. How did Thanksgiving
start? Why is it always in
November?

60. socialstudies.org/
resources/
notable

63. what are words / phrases that
describe what is happening?
what words / phrases might the
girl be thinking?
what do you think the story is
about?

64. ?

65. write captions for the cover
and each page
use primary / secondary
sources to annotate pages
what might happen next? why?

66. PEAS
Caroline Starr Rose
May B

67. Caroline Starr Rose
May B
PERSIA

68. Literacy
activities
history frame
word sorts
quick draw
book bits
summarizing
pyramid

69. collect
communicate
collaborate
create

70. story timeline
Jeannie Baker
Window

71. reading a
photograph
!
family
animals

72. what is present and what is
past?
can we learn about the past
from photographs?

73. I see a _______, _______, and _______.

80. padlet.com/wall/writeacaption
Padlet

81. do we have
family animals?

82. did people in
the past live the
same way we
do?

83. Discrepant Event Inquiry
Riddle / problem / question
Yes or no questions only
Timed

84. We never would have found this
person if the person hadn’t been so
hard to find.

85. At a young age, Laura Ingalls moved with her
family to South Dakota where they decided
to start a farm. Very few large trees grew in
South Dakota. The Ingalls did not have
enough money to buy lumber for their
house.
But they needed shelter from the below zero
degree winter. Their new house was built in
two weeks and kept them warm in winter /
cool in summer. They lived in their new
house for many years.

86. when? where? what?

89. When? Where? What?

90. thinkfinity.org
teaching resources
ThinkFinity

91. collect
communicate
collaborate
create

92. a connection
between then &
now would be . . .
make a
prediction

93. write lines of
dialogue

95. iPhone from the past

96. tourbuilder.withgoogle.com
Google Earth tours

97. readwritethink.org
ReadWriteThink

98. collect
communicate
collaborate
create

99. Blindman’s bluff poker

100. nps.gov/webrangers

102. Nina Rabbit

103. Nina Rabbit
has grandmother
long hair
dark skin
tells stories
no family
big ears
furry
white
same town
live near beach
know same people
love dark skin
friendly

104. beach
Nina’s house
house next
to Nina’s
town square
town street

105. Fence Sitter
US government treatment of Native
Americans during the 1800s was good
for the country
!
Becoming a patriot in 1776 was the
smart thing to do
!
Recess rules are a good idea

107. what are you
zinking about?

108. essdk.me/ZUo

109. have more questions?
Glenn Wiebe
glennw@essdack.org
glennwiebe.org
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