The Wisconsin Social Studies Wiki space is a space for social studies teachers across the state to share best practices, post great resources and to ask questions. I have posted some topics for discussion just to begin. Please feel free to add, share and discuss any ideas you would like regarding social studies!
The **Zinn Education Project** is a website designed to help teachers use A People's History of the United States in their classrooms. The **Zinn Education Project** provides complete lesson plans for use in elementary school, middle school, and high school settings. In some cases the lesson plans include document excerpts and references to A People's History of the United States. You can search for lesson plans by time period, theme, or by student reading levels.
I learned about the Zinn Education Project earlier this month via **Larry Ferlazzo's** excellent blog.
Applications for Education If you teach US History the **Zinn Education Project** is a great resource to have in your toolkit. It's easy to locate lesson plans that meet your needs and downloading the plans is free once you're registered.
Financial Literacy: TEACH IT! Financial Literacy: TEACH IT! from ECB provides educators with resources and professional development to effectively teach financial literacy. The Web site features twenty-one lessons taped in Wisconsin’s elementary, middle and high school classrooms, as well as interviews with the teachers in the videos. There are vetted lesson plans, a parent resource page and a teacher forum. Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards for Personal Financial Literacy serve as the foundation for this multi-media resource.
Thinking like a... Get students to look at issues through the lenses of the different perspectives/disciplines of social studies. Use this file to help students begin to ask questions and think about ideas from the various disciplines....
My contact Information:
Beth Ratway
**bratway@wi.rr.com**
WCSS 2011
http://www.wcss-wi.org/
The **Zinn Education Project** is a website designed to help teachers use A People's History of the United States in their classrooms. The **Zinn Education Project** provides complete lesson plans for use in elementary school, middle school, and high school settings. In some cases the lesson plans include document excerpts and references to A People's History of the United States. You can search for lesson plans by time period, theme, or by student reading levels.
I learned about the Zinn Education Project earlier this month via **Larry Ferlazzo's** excellent blog.
Applications for Education
If you teach US History the **Zinn Education Project** is a great resource to have in your toolkit. It's easy to locate lesson plans that meet your needs and downloading the plans is free once you're registered.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
**Howard Zinn's A People's History in a Free Digital Format**
**Watch American Experience Online**
**American Rhetoric - Famous Speeches from Politics and Entertainment**
Financial Literacy: TEACH IT!
Financial Literacy: TEACH IT! from ECB provides educators with resources and professional development to effectively teach financial literacy. The Web site features twenty-one lessons taped in Wisconsin’s elementary, middle and high school classrooms, as well as interviews with the teachers in the videos. There are vetted lesson plans, a parent resource page and a teacher forum. Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards for Personal Financial Literacy serve as the foundation for this multi-media resource.
Checkout the Web site! **www.ecb.org/finance**
CHECK OUT THESE GREAT NEW SITES FOR TEACHERS!!!!!
The Historical Scene Investigation Project (**www.hsionline.org**),
The Digital Directors Guild (**www.ddguild.org**)
Econocast (**www.econocast.org**).
Social Studies in Wisconsin for the 21st century: Here is a visual of how we framing the purpose of social studies for the 21sr century!!!!
NCSS map of skills for the 21st century for social studies:
Thinking like a... Get students to look at issues through the lenses of the different perspectives/disciplines of social studies. Use this file to help students begin to ask questions and think about ideas from the various disciplines....
Don't forget to attend the WCSS Conference March 18-19 2012