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1 Create Your Own Social Studies Labs To engage your students using Social Sciences best practices!

2 Step 1 – Select Benchmark Use item specs or pacing guide Social studies pacing guides (http://socialsciences.dadeschools. net/pacingguides.asp)http://socialsciences.dadeschools. net/pacingguides.asp

3 Step 2 – Create an Essential Question Essential questions should be thought-provoking, have multiple possible answers, and lend themselves to thinking, discussion and debate. Where to find essential questions: Pacing guides Other good resources: Guide to understanding and developing essential questions (http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109004/chapters/What-Makes-a- Question-Essential%A2.aspx(http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109004/chapters/What-Makes-a- Question-Essential%A2.aspx) Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ( http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/resources/essential-questions- teaching-american-history) http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/resources/essential-questions- teaching-american-history

4 Essential Questions built into pacing guides

5 Step 3 – Find Sources Find a variety of sources (can be visual or written) that can help students answer the essential question. Try to find sources that will present various viewpoints. For example: Essential Question: Should the United States have aided the Allies against the Axis powers in Europe? Some of the sources should provide evidence that YES, the United States SHOULD HAVE aided the Allies; while other sources should provide counter-evidence.

6 How might this political cartoon help students to answer the essential question?

7 How might this propaganda poster help students to answer the essential question?

8 Step 4 – Create an Activity Organize the activity in a way that makes it clear for students. For example, create a graphic organizer that students can use to help them analyze each source. Sample template:

9 Step 5 – Complete!


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