SocialStudies

This page is for the collaboration among members of the social studies department at Holicong Middle School.

AP American History Summer Work Packet

 * [[file:AP US summer packet 2007.doc]]
 * [[file:AP US summer packet 2007.pdf]]

[|Bux-Mont Council for the Social Studies - 7th Annual Social Studies Conference]

This is what Jen Dorman presented at the conference. Accompanying materials can be accessed on the Conferences page of her wiki.

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__**Technology**__
 * For information about blogs, wikis, podcasts, social learning, digital storytelling and digital documentaries, visit Jen Dorman's professional wiki at http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/
 * [|Marco Polo - Education in the 21st Century]
 * [|Classroom Games and Templates]
 * [|SMART Technologies Educator Resources]
 * [|Discovery's unitedstreaming]
 * [[file:unitedstreaming in CB.pdf]]
 * [|SMART Board resources]
 * [|SMARTBoard Interactive Lessons]
 * [|ERIC - Education Resource Information Center]
 * [|Internet Tutorials - Internet Searching]
 * [|Making Timelines in Microsoft Excel]
 * [[file:Discovery Interactive Atlas.pdf]]

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media type="custom" key="63078" Presented by Jen Dorman at the CBSD secondary social studies meeting on March 23, 2007.

__**Best Practices / Classroom Resource Collaboration**__
 * [|Common Threads: How to Translate Best Practices into Teaching]
 * Women Suffrage WebQuest (please use the discussion board on this HMS SS wiki page to post critiques and offer feedback - I already started the discussion thread)
 * [|Pearl Harbor] (2-day lesson with audio and print primary source analysis, interactive Internet simulation, video files, and map analysis)
 * [|Imperialism Resources]

__Publications__
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 * [|Global State of the States] - Edutopia magazine - Nov./Dec. 2006
 * [|World History is Dismal in Most States] - DistrictAdministration magazine - July 2006
 * [|How to Bring Schools Out of the 20th Century] - TIME magazine - Dec. 100, 2006
 * [|What Does it Mean to Think Historically?]- From the American Historical Association
 * [|EdCompass Newsletter January 2007]- January 2007 - From SmartTechnologies (integrating technology in history instruction is the focus of this issue)
 * [|Make History Come Alive - Discovery Education Classroom Resource Guide - January 2007]


 * //download individual articles below://**
 * [|Start It Up: These Lessons Are In The Bag]- Using students to create interactive media kits for teachers helps this district provide everyone with new skills.
 * [|Cool Tools: History With a Twist]- Three teachers share innovative approaches to traditional history lessons by employing digital media.
 * [|What Works: Illustrating Immigration]- Two teachers use unitedstreaming to help their students better understand current events.
 * [|Integration Station: Video Makes Novel's Facts More Vivid]- Connect literature and //unitedstreaming// to create compelling context.
 * [|The Big Picture: New Tools Connect Past to Present]- Workshops help elementary teachers build their knowledge while discovering ways to use media in their classrooms.
 * __[|Full Speed: Kick History Up a Notch]__ - Using unitedstreaming content in inquiry-based lessons.
 * [|Digital Notepad: Rocked by History]- A teacher learns the real (and surprising) truth about Plymouth Rock.
 * [|Bright Ideas: 8 Weeks, 8 Ways]- Start the year with these easy and fun ideas for using //unitedstreaming//.

__**General Curriculum Resources**__
 * [|Explore PA History]
 * [|The CHOICES Program - Watson Instituted for International Studies, Brown University]
 * [|Authentic History Center - Primary Sources from American Popular Culture]
 * [|CIC eLECTIONS]
 * [|PBS Measured Timeline] - Historically significant people, events, and data from the 20th century
 * [|US Geography Quizzes]
 * [|Teaching Tolerance]
 * [|Modern History Source Book]
 * [|History Matters]
 * [|Kathy Schrock's guide for history and social studies]
 * [|PJ Pinchbeck's Social Studies Homework Helper]
 * [|History Central]
 * [|Center for History and New Media]
 * [|Why Study History?] (Seattle Pacific University History Dept)
 * [|The History Guide: Why Study History?]
 * [|American Historical Association: Why Study History?]
 * [|USA Today Education]
 * [|U.S. Department of State]
 * [|Google News Archive Search Engine]
 * [|Annenebrg Political Fact Check]
 * [|Histor eSearch]
 * [|Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies - The Choices Program]
 * [|The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History]
 * [|History Now: Quarterly Journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History]
 * [|The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Learning Modules]
 * [|Library of Congress Thomas Legislative Information]
 * [|Library of Congress American Memory Collection]
 * [|Blank Outline Maps of the USA]
 * [|Primary Source]
 * [|PA Bar Association "Law for Kids"]
 * [|American Institute for History]
 * [|Annenberg Classroom]
 * [|C-SPAN Classroom]
 * [|Save Our History Grant]
 * [|The History Channel / Classroom]
 * [|Calisphere Primary Document Archive]
 * [|U.S. Census Bureau]
 * [|Population Connection]
 * [|Justice Learning]
 * [|National Intelligence Council - Mapping the Global Future 2020 Project]
 * [|Macro History - Prehistory to the 21st Century]
 * [|NARA Teaching With Documents]
 * [|University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs Scripps Library Digital Audio Archive]


 * __Economics Resources__**


 * [|Economic History Services]
 * [|Common Sense Economics]
 * [|National Council for Economic Education - EconEdLink]
 * [|American Economic Association - Resources for Economists]
 * [|Economic Magic]
 * [|Federal Reserve Education Portal]

__**Constitution - Presidents Resources - Law Day**__
 * [|The National Constitution Center: Constitution Day]
 * [|National Center for Constitutional Studies: Constitution Week]
 * [|Lessons of Liberty-Democracy Today: First Amendment Rights and the Constitution] (USA Today)
 * [|Bill of Rights BrainPop flash video]
 * [|The Constitution Learning Module (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|Celebration USA]
 * [|Presidential Timeline]
 * [|Law Day - American Bar Association]
 * [|NARA Presidential Election Resources]

__**Black History Month**__
 * [|Celebrate Black History Month - Biography]
 * [|History.com Black History Month]
 * [|AT&T Patchwork of African-American History]
 * [|CNN Black History Month]
 * [|Library of Congress African-American Mosaic]
 * [|NOBLE Black History Month]

__**Professional Organizations**__
 * [|The Historical Society]
 * [|The National Council for History Education]
 * [|National Council for the Social Studies]
 * [|Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies]
 * [|Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development]
 * [|The International Society for Technology in Education]

__**7th Grade Resources**__
 * [|BBC: Interactive Maps (all historical eras)]
 * [|BBC: Virtual Tours (all historical eras)]

__**8th Grade Resources**__
 * [|Franklin Remixed]
 * [|Archiving Early America]

__**9th Grade Resources**__
 * Visit [|Jen Dorman's web site] to review Internet links to accompany the 9th grade curriculum units.
 * [|Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution]
 * [|America Dreams . . .Through the Decades WebQuest]
 * [|Panama Canal WebQuest]
 * [|The Gilded Age Learning Module (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)>]
 * [|The U.S. Becomes a World Power (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|Progressivism (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|Immigration (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|World War I (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|The 1920s (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|The Great Depression (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|World War II (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|Post-War America (The Gilder Lehrman Institute)]
 * [|The Inflation Calculator]
 * [|American Experience: The Crash of 1929]
 * [|TIME Magazine D-Day 60 Year Anniversary]
 * [|BBC Schools: World War One]
 * [|BBC Schools: World War Two]
 * [|BBC: World Wars]
 * [|BBC: Interactive Maps (all historical eras)]
 * [|BBC: Virtual Tours (all historical eras)]
 * [|Veterans' War Stories - Morning Call]
 * [|Energy Statistics - Nation Master]
 * [|Operation Market Garden]
 * [|BBC Animated Map of the Western Front - The Great War]
 * [|Virtual Reality Tours of Concentration Camps]
 * [[file:Need to Know Vocabulary for AP US.doc]]