Social Studies Curriculum

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Goals for this Presentation

• Review the standard revision process

• Become familiar with social studies tools

• Show how the revised standards provide the basis for the Model Curricula

• Understand the purposes and components of the Model Curriculum

• Practice using the standards and Model Curriculum to create units and lessons for instruction

Goals for Social Studies Standards Revision

1. Identify the most essential concepts and skills.

2. Make them more user-friendly and manageable for teachers with greater depth of understanding for students.

3. Provide course syllabi for high school courses.

4. Provide clear progression of content from grade to grade

5. Address needs of students for the 21st century

Goal 1: Identify the Most Essential Concepts and Skills This was accomplished with input from many individuals

and groups including:• Teacher discussion group;• An advisory committee representing Ohio social

studies stakeholder groups;• A working group consisting of teachers, professors,

and curriculum supervisors; • Focus groups; • National content experts; and• Online reviews by the public.

Goal 2: Greater Manageability and Greater Depth of Understanding

• The seven standards in the 2002 document were condensed to four strands;

• Content was reorganized to reduce the amount at each grade level.

New Social Studies Strands

Ohio’s Academic Content Standards: Social Studies

Strands:• History

• Geography

• Government

• Economics

Skills/Topics:• Historical thinking

• Spatial thinking

• Civic participation

• Economic decision making

• Financial literacy

Revised Scope and Sequence Pre-K The Classroom Community

Kindergarten A Child’s Place in Time and Space

Grade 1 Families Now and Long Ago, Near and Far

Grade 2 People Working Together

Grade 3 Communities: Past and Present, Near and Far

Grade 4 Ohio in the United States

Grade 5 Regions and People of the Western Hemisphere

Grade 6 Regions and People of the Eastern Hemisphere

Grade 7 World Studies from 750 BC to 1600 AD: Ancient Greece to the First Global Age

Grade 8 U.S. Studies from 1492 to 1877: Exploration through Reconstruction

Social Studies Academic Content Standards FormatThemes Grade

Descriptions

Strands

Content Statements

Skills

High School Course Syllabi

Required for graduation (Ohio Revised Code)

• American History• American Government

Electives• Modern World History• Economics and Financial Literacy • Contemporary World Issues• World Geography

Goal 4: Provide Clear Progression of Content from Grade to Grade

Grade Four, Content Statement 21:

• The Ohio Constitution and the U.S. Constitution separate the major responsibilities of government among three branches.

Grade Eight, Content Statement 20:

• The U.S. Constitution established a federal system of government, a representative democracy and a framework with separation of powers and checks and balances.

High School, American Government, Content Statement 5:

• As the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution incorporates basic principles which help define the government of the United States as a federal republic including its structure, powers and relationship with the governed.

Goal 5: Meet the Needs of Students for the 21st Century

The social studies academic content standards directly address the 21st-century themes of:

• Civic literacy;

• Financial and economic literacy; and

• Global awareness.

21st Century Skills

Life and Career Skills

• Leadership & Responsibility

• Productivity & Accountability

• Flexibility & Adaptability

• Initiative & Self-Direction

• Social & Cross-Cultural Skills

Information, Media and Technology

Skills

• Information Literacy

• Media Literacy• Information,

Communications & Technology Literacy

Learning and Innovation Skills• Critical

Thinking• Communicatio

n• Research• Problem

Solving/Design• Collaboration• Meta-cognition• Creativity• Innovation

21st Century Skills

Answer questions 1-3

What is the Model Curriculum?

A web-based tool that:

• Provides curricular and instructional guidance;

• Informs assessment development; and

• Includes instructional strategies and resources.

Search and Find

• In your groups, use the Model Curriculum to answer questions 4-6

• Share out

4-Square Activity

Activity

We will go through the squares one at a time to

explain them, providing you with guided practice.

Then, you will use the blank analysis sheet in

small groups, for practice.

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Strand Topic Content

Statement

Alignment tool

Strand, topic, content statements):

4-Square Activity

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What must students know (knowledge – concepts, vocabulary, processes)?

Knowledge Factual Conceptual Procedural Metacognitive

4-Square Activity

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What must students be able to do (performance and skills)?

What are the best way(s) for students to demonstrate what they know and can do? Demonstration

Thinking skills

4-Square Activity

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What are the significant understandings students should develop?

Enduring

Inferential

Significant

Relevant

4-Square Activity

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4-Square Activity

Directions1. Select group members to serve as

recorder, timekeeper and reporter.2. With your group, select a strand, topic

and content statement that might link to the content in a unit that you brought.

3. Complete Square 14. Complete the remaining squares.5. Share responses.

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4-Square Activity

Think – Pair - Share

How can the 4-Square Activity assist in curriculum development?

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“Creating informed, engaged citizens is arduous work. To be critical thinkers, students must be critical readers. To be critical readers, they must first be literal readers.”

Building Literacy in Social Studies

Ogle, Klemp ana McBride

Connecting Social Studies and Literacy

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Literacy Standards

The Common Core for ELA & Literacy sets requirements for literacy in history/social studies.

ODE will develop a plan to support this effort.

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