This document provides an overview of the SNA Teaching, Learning & Technology Framework for history and social studies. It discusses how curriculum maps are organized for civics, economics, US history, and world history. Curriculum maps include modules, essential questions, standards, learning objectives, resources, and assessments. Recommended course sequences are also outlined. The document explains how curriculum maps inform instruction and support vertical, horizontal, and interdisciplinary coherence. Finally, several digital resources for history and social studies are listed.

1. Unpacking the SNA Teaching, Learning & Technology
Framework: History & Social Studies
August 2016
Marie Himes
mphimes@ncsu.edu

2. Session Objectives
• Develop understanding of the purpose
and functions of curriculum maps
• Become familiar with the structure of
SNA’s Teaching, Learning and
Technology Framework
• Identify curricular connections in support
of horizontal, vertical, and interdisciplinary
alignment within and across instruction
and learning at SNA

3. Guiding Question 1:
How are curriculum maps organized for
your content area?

4. Curriculum Maps
• Civics and Economics
• United States History
• World History
SNA Teaching, Learning & Technology Framework:
History & Social Studies Course Offerings
AP Course Options
• AP Macroeconomics
• AP Microeconomics
• AP United State Government and Politics
• AP United States History
• AP World History

5. • Modules
• Overview/Description
• Essential Questions
• Standards
• Learning Objectives
• Terminology
• Texts & Resources
• Sample Activities & Assessments
• Sample Lesson Plan
SNA Teaching, Learning & Technology Framework:
History & Social Studies Curriculum Map Structures

6. Recommended
History & Social Studies Course Sequences
SEQUENCES GRADE 10 GRADE 11 GRADE 12
1. Civics and
Economics
U.S. History World
History
2. Civics and
Economics
U.S. History AP World
History
3. Civics and
Economics
AP U.S.
History
World
History
4. Civics and
Economics
AP U.S.
History
AP World
History

7. Additional
History & Social Studies Course Sequences
SEQUENCES GRADE 10 GRADE 11 GRADE 12
1. AP
Microeconomics
2. AP
Macroeconomics
3. AP U.S.
Government and
Politics
4. AP Microeconomics
5. AP
Macroeconomics
6. AP U.S.
Government and
Politics

8. Guiding Question 1:
How are curriculum maps organized for
your content area?
Do you have any questions about the
structure of your content area’s curriculum
maps?

9. Guiding Question 2:
How do the curriculum maps inform
instruction?

10. Curriculum Maps Instruction
Module
Unit 1
Lesson A
Unit 2
Lesson CLesson B Lesson D Lesson E Lesson F
Standards-based
Instruction
Standards-based
Assessments
Standards-based
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Assessments
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Standards-based
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Standards-based
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Standards-based
Instruction
Standards-based
Instruction
Standards-based
Assessments
Standards-based
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Standards-based
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Standards-based
Instruction
Standards-based
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Standards-based
Instruction

11. Guiding Question 2:
How do the curriculum maps inform
instruction?
Do you have any questions about how to
use the curriculum maps when writing
your instructional plans?

12. Guiding Question 3:
How do the curriculum maps support
vertical coherence?

13. Vertical Coherence In Curriculum Maps
Civics and Economics
Curriculum Map
Module A: Foundations of the
American Political System
NC Essential Standards for Civics
and Economics
• CE.C&G.1 Analyze the
foundations and development of
American government in terms of
principles
and values.
o CE.C&G.1.1 Explain how
the tensions over power and
authority led America’s
founding fathers to develop a
constitutional democracy…
U.S. History Curriculum Map
Module C: Revolution and the New
Nation (1754-1820s)
NC Essential Standards for Civics and
Economics
• AH1.H.2 Analyze key political,
economic and social turning points
in American history using historical
thinking.
o AH1.H.2.1 Analyze key
political, economic, and social
turning points from colonization
through Reconstruction in
terms of causes and effects…
o AH1.H.2.2 Evaluate key
turning points from colonization
through Reconstruction in
terms of their lasting impact…

14. Guiding Question 4:
How do the curriculum maps support
horizontal coherence?

15. Horizontal Coherence In Curriculum Maps
Curriculum maps provide the foundation for…
• Co-creating Pacing Guides
• Co-planning Instruction
• Common Assessments
• Collaboratively Analyzing Student Data
Where are these things carried out?
In your Professional Learning Teams (PLTs)!

16. Guiding Question 5:
How do the curriculum maps support
interdisciplinary coherence?

17. Interdisciplinary Coherence In Curriculum Maps
Civics and Economics
Curriculum Map
Module A: Foundations of the
American Political System
NC Essential Standards for Civics
and Economics
• CE.C&G.1 Analyze the
foundations and development of
American government in terms of
principles
and values.
o CE.C&G.1.1 Explain how the
tensions over power and
authority led America’s
founding fathers to develop a
constitutional democracy…
English Language Arts (ELA)
Curriculum Map
Module C: The Individual and Society
(Nonfiction Emphasis)
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
for ELA and literacy
• RI.9-10.2: Determine a central idea
of a text and analyze its development
over the course of the text, including
how it emerges and is shaped and
refined by specific details; provide an
objective summary of the text.
• RI.9-10.3: Analyze how the author
unfolds an analysis or series of ideas
or events, including the order in which
the points are made, how they are
introduced and developed, and the
connections that are drawn between
them.Texts:
1. Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
2. Common Sense or The Crisis (Thomas Paine)

18. Guiding Questions 3, 4, & 5:
How do the curriculum maps support
vertical, horizontal, and interdisciplinary
coherence?
Do you have any questions on vertical,
horizontal, and interdisciplinary
alignment within and across curriculum
maps?

19. Digital Resources for History/Social
Studies: EDSITEment!
From www.edsitement.neh.gov

20. Digital Resources for History/Social
Studies: iCivics
From www.icivics.org

21. Digital Resources for History/Social
Studies: Federal Reserve Education
From www.federalreserveeducation.org

22. Digital Resources for History/Social Studies: The
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
From www.gilderlehrman.org

23. Digital Resources for History/Social
Studies: World History For Us All
From worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu