Review for the H.S.A Missy LaCroix Annie Caldwell

 Name  School  How long have you been teaching?  If you attended the last session – what did you get out of it?  What do you hope to get out of the session today?

 TWBAT determine best practices for reviewing the topics in order to best prepare their students for the H.S.A..

 Welcome and Introductions  Overview of the H.S.A.  Government MAY MADNESS Vocabulary Tournament  Graffiti Vocabulary – Supreme Court Cases Activity  ABC Review – Terms and Vocabulary  Student Review Packet and Readings  E-Pat Launcher – Computer Practice Test Days  Session Debrief  Questions/Reflections and Evaluation

 The items on the Public Release Forms of the Government High School Assessment represent a fair measure of the Social Studies Core Learning Goals for Government — Political Systems, Peoples of the Nation and World, Geography, and Economics. Users of these items should take into consideration the following information:  All items have been taken from previously field tested forms, have produced good psychometric data, and are statistically reliable.  Each form is approximately 30 minutes shorter than the version students will take during a formal test administration because the forms do not include field test items.  There are items of all difficulty levels (easy, medium, and hard) on the public release forms.  Each item represents only one way to measure an indicator.  The items measure students' skills and knowledge of content as directed by the Core Learning Goal indicators as designated for the Government High School Assessment.  All item formats — selected response, and brief constructed response items.

 Estimated Percentage of items on the test: Goal 1: Political Science- 60%  Principles, forms, historical development, structures, applications of roles, etc… Goal 2: People of the Nation and the World-13%  Foreign policy goals, International organizations… Goal 3: Geography- 13%  Map skills, regional issues, smart growth… Goal 4: Economics-15%  Business cycle, fiscal and monetary policy, opportunity costs, trade-offs, scarcity, types of economies…

 Focus on the Assessment Limits!  Test can be very heavy in Goal 1! This is an area where you might want to focus for your review. (60% of the test!)  Have your students practice taking the test on the computer if they will be taking the actual test on the computer. Also might be helpful to have students practice typing their BCR’s if they are going to take the test on the computer.

Purpose: To study the vocabulary that will be on the Government H.S.A.

 Sit facing your partner  Make sure that you have different color flash cards than your partner.  One partner should lay their cards out with the term side up (underlined side). The other partner should lay their cards out with the definition side up.  The partners will flip a coin to decide who goes first.  Your job is to pick up terms and definitions that match. If you do pick a correct match you read the term and the definition out loud, put the cards in your “WIN” pile and take another turn. If you do not pick a correct match you place the cards back down in their places you found them.  Continue these steps until no cards are left.  When the game is finished total up the number of matches you have.  The player that has the most matches wins and moves onto the next level.  Let Ms. Caldwell know who won your game!

 Assign each student a Unit.  For each letter students must come up with as many terms as they can for the unit. Unit AN BO CP DQ ER FS GT HU IV JW KX LY MZ

Purposes and Types of Government AuthoritarianNational security BO CProviding public services, Presidential DemocracyQ ER FS GTraditional HU IV JW KX LY MonarchyZ

 Readings provided for each of the pages in the review guide.  Helpful to give to students as they complete the packet.

 E-Pat Launcher is a program that is on most school computers that allows students to take a practice H.S.A. test on the computers and use the tools that they will have on test day.

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 Interactive Games: Jeopardy Review relay I Have / Who Has Games That’s Not Fair / Trashketball Review Games $25,000 Pyramid, Taboo, Cranium…Have students make up their own games… Puzzles ( Bingo ( )  Reorganize information: Cut and paste activities Foldables ( htm) htm Vocabulary development and organization  Use and make visuals: Political cartoons Fine art Thematic timelines  Classroom simulations Persuasive speeches on Public Issues World Café or informal debates Socratic Seminars or philosophical chairs

 Students will be given a number that is theirs for the entire game.  Ms. C will pull numbers randomly and if your number is chosen you must give the correct answer. If you can, then you get to come up and place your name on the prize that you want.  You may cross out someone else’s name if you want the prize that they have written their name on.  When the game ends, whoever has their name on the top of the prize wins the prize!

 Answer Garden  Kahoot -  Quizlet –

 What are some strategies that you learned about today that you can use with your students to help them prepare for the H.S.A.?

 Feel free to us with any questions. Annie Caldwell – Missy LaCroix –