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  Welcome to  

 

The Social Studies PLACE 

 

 

 

 

 Programs, Links, and Content for Educators

 

The goal of this site is to inform K-12 social studies educators about available social studies resources and Arkansas Department of Education updates to benefit you and your students.

What’s New? 

 

 

Goethe-Institut USA: Transatlantic Outreach Program

Application deadline is February 1, 2013

 

The Transatlantic Outreach Program (TOP) uses Modern Germany as a basis of comparison and contrast to internationalize Social Studies curriculum as well as to provide international exposure to Social Studies educators in the United States and Canada. TOP aims to facilitate Education, Dialogue, and Experience.  For more information and the application visit http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/top/txl/app/enindex.htm 

 

Gilder Lehrman National History Teacher of the Year Award

Nominate an elementary teacher by February 1, 2013.

 

Do you know an excellent elementary social studies teacher?

 

Why not nominate them for this prestigious award so their hard work is recognized?

 

Complete a Nomination form online and submit at

 

http://gilderlehrman.org/programs-exhibitions/national-history-teacher-year-nomination-form

 

 

 

Summer Residential Teachers' Institute*  

George Washington Teacher's Institute

Established in 1999, the George Washington Summer Residential Teachers' Institute is a highly competitive program which brings teachers to Mount Vernon, Virginia for an intensive week of study at Washington's home.

 

In 2013, Mount Vernon will host sessions by state to build the foundation for statewide collegial networks of teachers who can share classroom ideas, lesson plans and resources.

This year's session for AR teachers will be held June 9-15  Session 1: Alabama, Arkansas, Nevada, and Oklahoma

 

See the Opportunities for Educators page for more information and an Arkansas application. 

 

 

Check out the January 8, 2013, LRSD Common Core workshop

and handouts on the Common Core page of this wiki.

 

 

 

 

Resources for Martin Luther King, Jr., and African American history have been updated. Numerous resources can be viewed and accessed on the African American History page of this wiki; just click on African American History Resources under Table of Contents in the side bar.

 

 

 

“What Every Arkansas Educator Needs to Know About Common Core State Standards”, affectionately referred to

as the “Lucy” document, has been updated and additional resources have been added.  You can access both excel

and pdf versions of the document on the Common Core page of this wiki.  

 

 

The Library of Congress (LOC) has created draft versions of 3 U.S. History module blueprints based on CC and the

Literacy Standards for History/Social Studies, Science , and Technical Subjects.   

These modules are aligned to CC reading and writing in grades 5, 8, and 9-10.  Since they are US history/Civil War

in content these module blueprints would align with AR standards for grades 5, 6, and 11. 

 

Please contact me if you are interested in piloting one of these module/blueprints. 

The compelling questions for these modules are as follows:

  •    Elementary – (gr 5) Did Charles Sumner deserve it?
  •    Middle – (gr 8) Is freedom free?
  •    High School – (gr 9-10) Did Abraham Lincoln really want to free the slaves?

 

 

Five (5) Big Ideas

From Common Core Standards to Curriculum_ Five Big Ideas.docx  

 

      

 

REACH Grants Available From The Arkansas Humanities Council -

see opportunities for educators for more information and details

 

Teaching Literacy in Social Studies with Britannica Resources

Looking for new ways to use promote content literacy in Social Studies?  With the Common Core ELA Standards in mind, Britannica

has many resources to help Social Studies teachers to focus on literacy within their content areas.  Check out the resources page.

 

New site for Teachers -- created by David Coleman. 

Great resources for assisting with implementation of Common Core State Standards

for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. 

Check out Steal-these-tools for great lessons, annotated complex text examples,

and much more. 

 

 

This site is managed by the Curriculum and Instruction unit of the Arkansas Department of Education.  Please contact social studies specialist Maggie Herrick at margaret.herrick@arkansas.gov or (501) 682-6584, for more information.

 

If you have additional resources or information to assist social studies educators please contact us with this information.

 

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