LearnAlberta.caLearnAlberta.ca Enhancing Social Studies Planning Using Online Resources A tutorial developed by Merri-Ann Ford and Barbara Cavers for SAPDC

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Program of Studies 1 st Window allows you to choose the program and language.

Program of Studies Latest Program of Studies Choose the Social Studies K-12 (2005) Program of Studies

Program of Studies

At this point, why not take a few minutes to surf for resources?  Use the program of studies tab to do your searching this time.  Try to save at least 3 resources to My Workspace.

What are Essential Questions?

Essential questions…  Center around major issues  Open-ended  Invite exploration of ideas  Encourage collaboration  Integrate technology

Adapted from: Questioning by Design, Wiggins, 2006 Qualities of Essential Questions Asked to be repeatedly pondered Set up inquiry, heading to new understanding Questions we want kids to be constantly asking Designed to uncover new ideas, views, and lines of argument

How can I develop essential Questions? You don’t need to develop all your own materials; this work has been done for you. …and the materials match the outcomes we want students to achieve.

So how does this relate to the Learn Alberta website  Student learning activities on the Learn Alberta Website for Social Studies are based on essential questions or OVERARCHING CRITICAL INQUIRIES (OCI)  Each Overarching Critical Inquiry incorporates a number of CRITICAL CHALLENGES (CC)– or critical thinking activities.

Overarching Critical Inquiry (OCI) The Big Idea or Question There are 3-4 OCI’s Per Grade and 1-5 CC’s Per OCI Critical Challenge # 2Critical Challenge # 1 Critical Challenge # 3Critical Challenge # 4 Support Material  Outcomes Addresses in the Critical Challenges  Web Sites Referred to in the Critical Challenges  Literature Referred to in the Critical Challenges  Image Collections Referred to in the Critical Challenges  Summaries of the Critical Challenges Summaries of Modelling the Tools These open a new page in the on-line guide On-Line Guide Resources – Understanding the Structure of the Guide Support Material Summaries of Support Material (K-12) Contain the graphic organizers and assessment materials that may be downloaded, modified and used in your classroom. Note: Links to the appropriate documents are found in the critical challenge you are working with. These open a new page in the guide Background information for teachers related to an OCI is found on the overarching critical challenge page.

Overarching Critical Inquiries A grade nine example

Specific Key Word Searches are useful for finding grade level OCI’s. OCI + Grade (Overarching Critical Inquiry)

OCI + Grade 9

Scrolling down on the OCI page will bring up more material for you to access.

Outcomes Addressed …

Web Sites Referred to…

Summaries of Critical Challenges

Summaries of Modelling the Tools

Other Reference Charts… No less important but similar in set-up  Summaries of Support Materials- we examine this later in the workshop  Literature referred to in the Critical Challenges.  Image collections referred to in the Critical Challenges

Critical Challenges A grade nine example

OCI + Grade 9 + Critical Challenge

Outcomes

References

Related Resources

Support Materials

Data Collection: Support Material

Assessment

Your Task is to do a search for OCI’s at your grade level. You may wish to have a look at the content you are presently working on. How could what you find support what you are doing in your classroom? Time: 15 minutes Search Key Words: OCI + Grade (Overarching Critical Inquiry)

Take a few minutes to examine your OCI’s for resources  Use the search for resources tab to do your searching this time.  Save any resources you are interested in looking at further to My Workspace  Try and save at least 3 resources to My Workspace.

Key Word Search

Reminder: you will find the reference charts on the OCI pages. Or, if you prefer, you may access them directly via their titles using a key word search.

Keyword: Summaries of Support Materials You may wish to examine other documents available for your grade or other grades.

Support Material

Keyword: Summaries of Modelling the Tools Have a look at the resources available using key word search or on the bottom of one of the OCI pages for your grade.

Tools

ELA Program of Studies: Keyword: researching and making presentations

Keyword: Knowledge and Employability Studio

Online Reference Centre

Take a few minutes to do keyword searches or view the Online Reference center or view the Online Reference center  Key words that you might try: summaries of support materials,summaries of support materials, summaries of modelling the tools,summaries of modelling the tools, researching and making presentations,researching and making presentations, knowledge and employability studio.knowledge and employability studio.  Reference Center- Surf resources  Save any resources you are interested in looking at further to My Workspace. Try to save at least 3 resources.