Hey, KVEC Social Studies – check out our first mini-cast for our Holler!

https://youtu.be/gOESeRAFTm8

Final conclusions below.

Hola!

I got a big test coming up.

I LOVE Wolf County’s Stem Camp activities! The 21st century learning skills of creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication were clearly evident! Can you post more about your resources?

I am excited to join the Inquiry Fellows Holler. I want to peek over your shoulders and hear all of the exciting conversations that take place. This will be a great place to learn and grow.

Wow! I am so pleased with all of the folks who have sent in their photos and videos of students working on Hour of Code! It is obvious that students had a great time and I believe teachers did too. Can’t wait till next year, but in the meantime, keep coding!!!!

1st grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.

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1st grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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2nd grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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3rd grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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4th grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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4th grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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5th Grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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5th grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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5th grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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5th grade participating in Hour of Code at Martha Jane Potter Elementary.
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#HourOfCode photos from Betsy Layne High School on Monday, great event!
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The students at LBJ Elementary had a great day learning to program BeeBots!
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Hi STEM Peeps!
This will be where we we will be posting our STEM Unit Plans for our STEM Professional Action Network.

Yes! http://www.epals.com is a great way for students from all areas of the world, to connect with each other! Check it out! You can join projects, share projects, set up email accounts for your students so they can send/receive emails from other students! It’s a great way for students to explore culture, language, and interesting facts about each other!

Do we have a new teacher?
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STEM Meeting today
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The Social Studies Teacher Leader Network meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 24th has been cancelled. The next meeting will be March 27th (note the change from March 31 originally scheduled).

Teachers,

Here is a gold-mine for primary sources… Oral-histories for the Appalachian Region. Some of these are amazing!
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/collections/appalachia-oral-history-collection’ title=’Appalachia Oral History Collection | Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History’ image=”]Residents of Appalachia discuss…Read More

Our next SSTLN meeting will be February 24th at HCTC. This will be a hard day of working with the new Social Studies standards. You might bring a laptop to do some of the work. More info will come by email. See you then!

Great day at Sebastian Middle School in Breathitt County! They are doing STEM up right! Pictures below show Deanna Moore’s 7th grade working on earthquake proof structures, and her 8th grade building Archimedes Screws. The third picture is Matt Hudson’s 6th Grade Academy Math class working on engineering a house model using ratio and scale.…Read More

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WONDERFUL RESOURCE The US Holocaust Memorial Museum offers an online experience, “Some Were Neighbors” to explore the role of “onlookers”” during the Holocaust…those who helped the victims and those who helped the Nazis. Includes teacher resources for lessons on analyzing images, etc.
http://somewereneighbors.ushmm.org/#/exhibitions

ASCD article on questioning in social studies/history classes
http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol10/1009-mount.aspx?utm_source=ascdexpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=express1009

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Resources
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Current 8th grade students from The Center for Rural Development’s 45 county service area of Southern and Eastern Kentucky can now apply ONLINE for the 2015 Rogers Explorers program. Excellent opportunity for students interested in STEM fields! Deadline is February 15 at 5pm.
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.centeryouthprograms.com’ title=’Youth P…Read More

If you are not a member of the Kentucky Social Studies (KYSOCSTU Listserv but would like to join the online community and receive updates and info from them regarding SS instruction..or post questions to the group, you may join at the link below
http://www.coe.uky.edu/lists/kylists.php

I found this web resource with TONS of questioning strategies…also contains support materials for the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). More appropriate for Middle and High SS Teachers/Students.
https://studyskillsforuniquelearners.wikispaces.com/Questioning+Strategies

I found this web resource with TONS of questioning strategies…also contains support materials for the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). More appropriate for Middle and High SS Teachers/Students.
https://studyskillsforuniquelearners.wikispaces.com/Questioning+Strategies

Information in this week’s Superintendent email:
Summer history workshop – (Please share with teachers)
We hope that you will apply to be part of the 2015 Summer Teacher Workshop at the Kentucky Historical Society. This exciting and informative weeklong workshop, “Torn Within, Threatened Without: Kentucky and the Border States in the Civil War…Read More

Here is a link to the Model Curriculum Framework:
http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/KY-Model-Curriculum-Framework.aspx

Stanford History Education Group-Reading Like a Historian, Document based lessons, and other resources
http://sheg.stanford.edu/

Kentucky Council for the Social Studies resource page:
http://kcss.org/?page_id=25/

Kentucky Council for the Social Studies resource page:
http://kcss.org/?page_id=25/

Article in Harvard Education Letter about Question Formulation Technique (QFT) would be a great resource to help Social Studies Teacher Leaders share the technique.
http://hepg.org/hel-home/issues/27_5/helarticle/teaching-students-to-ask-their-own-questions_507#home

@michelle and @breewilson… Great to see Leslie folk joining theHoller!

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/reading-like-a-historian-sourcing
This is a link to a Teaching Channel resource with lesson plans and a video of a teacher doing a Sourcing lesson with the Gulf of Tonkin as the content. Great resource for High School and AP teachers

This will be an interesting Holler. I hope you don’t mind me peeking over your shoulders.

This is a great virtual tour with all sorts of activities!
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/’ title=’The First Thanksgiving Student Activities for Grades PreK-12 | Scholastic.com’ image=”]Find out how the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Native Americans celebrated the first Thanksgiving together at Plymouth Plantation.…Read More

Glad to see everyone joining. Now we need to start posting about the great things going on in our classrooms!

Looking forward to sharing idea, resources, and engaging in conversation with Social Studies Teacher Leaders!!