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Note on Middle School Social Science Sequences

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Today’s Agenda Overview of Course, Resources, & Best Practices The Big History Project McGraw Hill Text Global Scholars NBC Learn Next Steps

Quick Look- Curriculum Documents Year at a Glance Timeline DRAFT- 1st Nine Weeks 8th grade World History

Quick Look- Best Practices Thinking Like a Historian Claim Evidence Reasoning World History Labs

Quick Look- Best Practices Thinking Like a Historian Read article- work with partner to identify key suggestions for skill and content acquisition. Be prepared to share your findings with the group. (PDF of the article to the left).

Quick Look- Best Practices Claim Evidence Reasoning

Best Practices Claim Evidence Reasoning (C-E-R) Definition: Requiring students to state a claim (e.g. an answer to a question); provide evidence to support the claim, and state a reason why the evidence answers the question. What Is the Fertile Crescent? American archaeologist James Henry Breasted coined the term “Fertile Crescent” in a 1914 high school textbook to describe this archaeologically significant region of the Middle East that contains parts of present day Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Cyprus. On a map, the Fertile Crescent looks like a crescent or quarter-moon. It extends from the Nile River on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in the south to the southern fringe of Turkey in the north. The Fertile Crescent is bounded on the west by the Mediterranean Sea and on the East by the Persian Gulf. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through the heart of the Fertile Crescent. The region historically contained unusually fertile soil and productive freshwater and brackish wetlands. These produced an abundance of wild edible plant species. It was here that humans began to experiment with the cultivation of grains and cereals around 10,000 B.C. as they transitioned from hunter-gatherer groups to permanent agricultural societies.

Best-Practices Claim Evidence Reasoning (C-E-R) Definition: Requiring students to state a claim (e.g. an answer to a question); provide evidence to support the claim, and state a reason why the evidence answers the question. What change had to happen in order for development to take place in the Fertile Crescent? People learned subsistence farming. Trade expanded between various cultures. Migration patterns of animals that were hunted. Rapid climate change forcing early humans to stay in one place.

SAMPLE: Correct Answer C-E-R: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning I CLAIM that …….. What change had to happen in order for development to take place in the Fertile Crescent? People learned subsistence farming. Trade expanded between various cultures. Migration patterns of animals that were hunted. Rapid climate change forcing early humans to stay in one place. The REASON that this evidence supports the answer is……… The EVIDENCE I have is………

MYA- Post Assessment Item Analysis SAMPLE: Wrong Answer C-E-R: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Teacher or Student Feedback: Choice X is incorrect- ……….. What change had to happen in order for development to take place in the Fertile Crescent? People learned subsistence farming. Trade expanded between various cultures. Migration patterns of animals that were hunted. Rapid climate change forcing early humans to stay in one place. I CLAIM that……. The REASON that this evidence supports the answer is ……….. The EVIDENCE I have is that ……

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Quick Look- Best Practices World History Labs

Through the Creation of Social Studies Labs Social Sciences Best Practices: Rigorous Social Science Instruction to Support Mastery of the Florida Literacy Standards and Complex Social Science Content Benchmarks Make sure you welcome all participants and introduce your self.

A New Era in Social Sciences- SSS: Standards, Skills, and Stimuli Whole Group Discussion Why is it essential to strike a balance between content and skill acquisition?

A New Era in Social Sciences- SSS: Standards, Skills, and Stimuli Social Science Labs Format of a Social Science Lab: What is a Social Science Lab? (show example) Developing Overarching Questions Building Background Knowledge Conducting Work Presenting and Supporting Interpretations Assessing Student Learning Source: http://www.umbc.edu/che/historylabs/