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

https://youtu.be/gOESeRAFTm8

I got a big test coming up.

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!

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!

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
[bpfb_link url=’http://highland2011.edu.glogster.com/edit/dr-martin-luther-king’ title=’Dr. Martin Luther King: #GlogContest2013, #glogcontest2013, glogcontest2013 | Glogster EDU – 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students’…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!!

Here at the Social Studies Teacher Leadership Network in Hazard. Great discussion this morning…