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Check out these 2 programs that will add spice to your World History Studies
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2. Welcome and Introductions

3. Note on Middle School
Social Science Sequences

4. Note on Middle School
Social Science Sequences

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

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

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

8. 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).

9. Quick Look- Best Practices
Claim Evidence Reasoning

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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………

13. 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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15. Quick Look- Best Practices
World History Labs

16. 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.

17. 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?

18. 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
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