Welcome teachers!

I hope that today you have the opportunity to attend sessions that will excite you and arm you with new strategies and resources for your Social Studies classes. For your convenience, the content coordinators have teamed up to offer all elementary sessions in ONE location! It is our hope you will enjoy sessions across multiple content areas.

Here are a few details about today’s sessions: ■ Please see the schedule within this program for session description, time and location, and most

importantly, the targeted audience! ■ Take a moment to review our vision for Social Studies and the overview of PL opportunities available this year. ■ Please sign in at each session you attend. ■ Your feedback is also critical to the future of social studies professional development. So please

take a moment to complete the evaluations for the sessions. This feedback is critical to meeting your needs!

Thank you again for taking the time to increase your content and pedagogical knowledge and have a great day! Heather MacKenzie, Social Studies Coordinator hmackenzie@henry.k12.ga.us

For Social Studies

Elementary Teachers ~ November 2, 2015 ~ Hampton High

Social Studies

8:30–10:00 am Session 1 K, 1, 4, 5

10:00–11:30 am Session 2 K, 1, 4, 5

LUNCH

11:30 am–1:00 pm

1:00–2:30 pm Session 3 K, 1, 2, 3

2:30–4:00 pm Session 4 K, 1, 2, 3

Title/Description Presenter Audience Room

8:30—10:00 am SESSION 1

Bringing History Back with the Future Student accountability for understanding the reasons we learn his-tory is immortalized when they bring history to life in a school-wide “live” wax museum. Students begin by digging deep in the rich ground of information to learn more about their chosen charac-ter. Building their love for history, they report their findings using social media, multimedia applications, art and design, and video presentations through augmented reality. The true manifestation of the students’ knowledge presents itself through live interactions as they become their characters, complete with scenery and props. Augment your reality with history!

Sheri Bashlor

& Kimberly Spivey

Pierce County Schools

Grades K - 5

224

Interactive Notebooks: A "Primer" for Primary Grades Ever wanted to use interactive notebooks with young students but couldn't figure out how? In this session you will learn ideas and ac-tivities to incorporate the Social Studies standards into an interac-tive notebook for little ones.

Stephanie Chadwick

PCES

Grades

K - 3

220

Increasing the Rigor on Classroom Assessments In this interactive session teachers will explore the applications of depth of knowledge, standards based questions, and rubrics as they relate to classroom assessment practices. Teachers will have an opportunity to compare and contrast their classroom practices with practices used to create Georgia Milestones test items.

Penny

Damianeas District

Assessment Specialist

Grades 4-5

225

Diving into Social Studies using Political Cartoons Political cartoons and comic strips are primary source documents that give us a visual of life during the times in which they were cre-ated. This session will show teachers how to use political cartoons as documents to introduce students to a topic and how to use So-cial Studies and CLOSE Reading strategies to dig deep to get to the historical message of cartoons.

Sandra Stargell, LES

& Lescia Stroud, SBES

Grades K - 5

214

Exploring PBL in Kindergarten In this session examples of Social Studies and Science PBL’s will be discussed and demonstrated. In addition to valuable examples, teachers will be provided the opportunity and time to work togeth-er to create a PBL activity to use in their classroom.

Cassandra

Bell, Jennifer Hartley, &

Barbra Pierce TES

Grades

K

218

Explorer E-Book Training This session will provide training on ways to access and integrate Explorer E-Books, an online literacy resource that will support So-cial Studies and Science instruction.

Heather Brooke Teacher Created Materials

Grades K - 5

407

Transition to Next Session

11:30—1:00 pm LUNCH

Title/Description Presenter Audience Room

10:00—11:30 am SESSION 2

Let's Augment Your Reality Teachers will earn how to set up an Aurasma account, create trigger images and overlays, and how to connect them to make auras. This session will teach you the technology part of bring-ing history to life in your classroom through augmented reality. If teachers are bringing their own devices, please be sure to down-load the Aurasma app prior to attending.

Sheri Bashlor &

Kimberly Spivey

Pierce Coun-ty Schools

Grades 4 - 5

224

Building Blocks for Creating Dynamic Constructed Re-sponse Tasks, Part 2 Delve into CR tasks as we work together to deconstruct and cri-tique writing prompts and rubrics, create good tasks, and prac-tice scoring student responses together. This is a hands-on, minds-on workshop!

JoAnn Wood Appleseed

Class

Grades 4 - 5

Media Center

Interactive Notebooks: A "Primer" for Primary Grades Ever wanted to use interactive notebooks with young students but couldn't figure out how? In this session you will learn ideas and activities to incorporate the Social Studies standards into an interactive notebook for little ones.

Stephanie Chadwick

PCES

Grades K - 3

220

Using Film to Teach Social Studies How do you use film to teach social studies? This session will look at best-practices for integrating film into your current les-sons, how to have students analyze film as a primary and/or sec-ondary document, and how to connect oral history films to other primary documents to develop critical thinking. Participants will leave with a list of resources and skills to implement in their classrooms.

Richard Harker & James

Newberry Museum of History & Holocaust Education Kennesaw

State University

Grades 4-5

219

Empowering Social Studies Leaders Elementary Contacts from each elementary school will meet in one of our two sessions. Contacts will meet and share and learn more about our vision for Social Studies Education along with our short and long term goals. Participants will leave with new materials and be empowered to lead their schools in Social Studies Instruction.

Tony DiSario, District TOSA

Elementary Contacts

221

Explorer E-Book “Stay and Play” This session will provide the opportunity to navigate the Explor-ebook resources, set up your class, or ask questions with the support of your facilitator.

Heather Brooke Teacher Created Materials

Grades K - 5

407

Title/Description Presenter Audience Room

1:00—2:30 pm SESSION 3

Let's Augment Your Reality Teachers will earn how to set up an Aurasma account, create trig-ger images and overlays, and how to connect them to make au-ras. This session will teach you the technology part of bringing his-tory to life in your classroom through augmented reality. If teachers are bringing their own devices, please be sure to download the Au-rasma app prior to attending.

Sheri

Bashlor & Kimberly Spivey Pierce County Schools

Grades 2 - 3

224

Social Studies Read Alouds 2.0 Grab great read alouds and springboard into powerful writing op-portunities in both ELA and Social Studies. You will have time to explore new titles and develop plans for using them in powerful ways.

JoAnn Wood Appleseed

Class

Grades 2 - 3

Media Center

Interactive Notebooks: A "Primer" for Primary Grades Ever wanted to use interactive notebooks with young students but couldn't figure out how? In this session you will learn ideas and ac-tivities to incorporate the Social Studies standards into an interac-tive notebook for little ones.

Stephanie Chadwick

PCES

Grades K - 3

220

Using Film to Teach Social Studies How do you use film to teach social studies? This session will look at best-practices for integrating film into your current lessons, how to have students analyze film as a primary and/or secondary docu-ment, and how to connect oral history films to other primary docu-ments to develop critical thinking. Participants will leave with a list of resources and skills to implement in their classrooms.

Richard Harker & James

Newberry Museum of History & Holocaust Education Kennesaw

State University

Grades 2 - 3

219

Empowering Social Studies Leaders Elementary Contacts from each elementary school will meet in one of our two sessions. Contacts will meet and share and learn more about our vision for Social Studies Education along with our short and long term goals. Participants will leave with new materials and be empowered to lead their schools in Social Studies Instruction.

Tony DiSario, District TOSA

Elementary Contacts

221

Explorer E-Book Training This session will provide training on ways to access and integrate Explorer E-Books, an online literacy resource that will support So-cial Studies and Science instruction.

Heather Brooke Teacher Created Materials

Grades K - 5

407

Transition to Next Session

Title/Description Presenter Audience Room

2:30—4:00 pm SESSION 4

Let's Augment Your Reality Teachers will earn how to set up an Aurasma account, create trig-ger images and overlays, and how to connect them to make au-ras. This session will teach you the technology part of bringing history to life in your classroom through augmented reality. If teachers are bringing their own devices, please be sure to down-load the Aurasma app prior to attending.

Sheri Bashlor &

Kimberly Spivey

Pierce County Schools

Grades K - 5

224

Social Studies Read Alouds 2.0 Grab great read alouds and springboard into powerful writing op-portunities in both ELA and Social Studies. You will have time to explore new titles and develop plans for using them in powerful ways.

JoAnn Wood Appleseed

Class

Grades

K - 1

Media Center

Blend Learning Every New Direction using Blend Space Tech-nology Introductions to Blend Space for teachers and the ways to use it in the classroom and for students to access at home. Instructor will show her Blend Space account page and the ways to utilize this technology to enhance educational learning. Teachers will create blend Space accounts and learn how to set up student accounts. Next, teachers will learn how to create a new lesson and insert in-formation for their students to access. Then, teachers will learn how to share information on their page and list a co-author to be able to add to that page. Teachers will have the opportunity to pick a standard in which they are currently working on and create new lesson for their students in Blend Space.

Jaimie Moser, ARES

Grades 2 - 3

222

Exploring PBL in Kindergarten In this session examples of Social Studies and Science PBL’s will be discussed and demonstrated. In addition to valuable examples, teachers will be provided the opportunity and time to work togeth-er to create a PBL activity to use in their classroom.

Cassandra

Bell, Jennifer Hartley, &

Barbra Pierce TES

Grade K

218

Diving into Social Studies using Political Cartoons Political cartoons and comic strips are primary source documents that give us a visual of life during the times in which they were cre-ated. This session will show teachers how to use political cartoons as documents to introduce students to a topic and how to use So-cial Studies and CLOSE Reading strategies to dig deep to get to the historical message of cartoons.

Sandra

Stargell, LES & Lescia

Stroud, SBES

Grades K - 5

214

Explorer E-Book “Stay and Play” This session will provide the opportunity to navigate the Explor-ebook resources, set up your class, or ask questions with the sup-port of your facilitator.

Heather Brooke Teacher Created Materials

Grades K - 5

407

Department of Learning & Leadership

In the 2015-2016 school year the Social Studies Department is excited to provide fo-

cused, systematic professional development to teachers that will highlight the tenets of per-

sonalized learning while addressing the vision of advancing social studies in Henry County

Schools. In addition, the teachers on special assignment and I are available to offer targeted

professional learning designed to meet the needs of your schools and staff.

Our aim is to create a learning environment where educators can collaboratively and

continuously enhance their knowledge and implementation of social studies skills. We are ex-

cited that in the 2015-2016 school year our vision of for all students to:

As we work toward meeting our vision, we look forward to offering teachers the opportunity to participate in a series of thematic sessions, whereby attending each session within a series, teachers will have the opportunity to increase content knowledge or skill proficiency in a giv-en area. Teachers completing all four parts will receive certificates for TKES artifact docu-

mentation. On the next page you may see an overview an within the program, look for ses-sions that are noted “series” in order to participate.