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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....
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Conference March 21-22 201118-19 2012

Beth Ratway
**bratway@wi.rr.com**
WCSS 2010
Here is where you can find the resources from the 2010 conference:
**http://dynamicss.wikispaces.com/**
The Council for Economic Education has released 'Gen i Revolution,' a free online personal finance game sponsored by FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).
Middle and high school teachers can register their classes at http://www.genirevolution.org/join.php.
During the game, students undertake 15 missions to beat back the insidious "Murktide" infestation. The "Murktide," a confusion about basic personal finance principles, is spreading across the population, and middle and high school students are the last line of defense against a lifetime of poor financial decisions.
Designed to teach important personal finance and investing concepts, the missions are correlated to two Council for Economic Education programs, 'Learning, Earning and Investing' and 'Your Credit Counts.'
Mark your calendars now for the Great Lakes Regional Social Studies Conference
" Today's Student, Tomorrow's Global Citizen" March 15 & 16, 2010, Middleton, WI-- **http://www.education.wisc.edu/elpa/conferences/iec/**
Here is what's new:
NEW HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES SERIES FROM ECB!
ENGAGE: STATE • TRIBAL • LOCAL • GOVERNMENT
Broadcast Schedule:
• February 6, 2010
• March 5, 2010
• April 16, 2010
• May 28, 2010
Visit our Parade of Programs for complete airdates and times.
ENGAGE: State • Tribal • Local Government is a video series designed to instruct high school students as to how the three different types of government work together and separately to satisfy the will of their constituency. By drawing on 6 real-life examples and 3 personal profiles, ENGAGE transforms the workings of government from abstract concepts into real-world teachable moments. Combined with a 10-minute professional development video to illustrate its use in the classroom, ENGAGE will enhance the personal relevance of your curriculum and provide important insights into how democracy works and what it takes to get involved.
Visit us online at: http://www.ecb.org/engage/ for instructional resources and complete video resources.
Stump Speaking, hand-colored engraving, 1856 (GLC04075).
**SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR HISTORY TEACHERS**
**EXPERIENCE** //**THE LOST WORLD**// **WITH JOHN DEMOS**
APPLY NOW—SPACE IS LIMITED
Applications due March 2, 2010
2010 NEH Summer Institute: The Lost World of Early America with John Demos
This summer, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Summer Seminars will offer The Lost World of Early America, a two-week NEH Summer Institute led by historian John Demos at Yale University. Teachers invited to participate will travel back to the Colonial Era in order to explore the lives of early Americans—and, in turn, gain a richer understanding of the changes that resulted from both the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution in the American experience.
All K-12 history, social studies, and English teachers, including those who attended a Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminar in 2009, are now eligible to apply to this NEH Summer Institute. For further details, visit:
www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_NEH.php.
Selected participants will receive fellowships to offset travel costs to the Institute, July 18-31, 2010—and be eligible to apply to and attend the full range of Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars in 2010 and the future.
Apply now: seminar space is limited.
Application deadline: March 2, 2010
About John Demos
John Demos is the Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University, where he has specialized in teaching early American history since 1986. His most recent work, The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World (Viking, 2008), culminates a half-century of intense study of witch-hunting incidents in Europe and America.
For more information about this NEH Summer Institute, email seminars@gilderlehrman.org or call 646-366-9666.
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The Bill of Rights Institute Announces Founders Fellowship Program
for New Teachers from Across the Country
The Bill of Rights Institute is pleased to invite you to apply for our brand new Founders Fellowship Program! This new program is open to 20 early-career American History and Civics teachers. Selected Fellows will participate in a year-long educational program to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the American Founding.
The Founders Fellows will convene in Washington, D.C. on July 6, 2010 for an all- expenses paid multi-day educational program. During the program, Founders Fellows will participate in lectures, discussions, and scholar-led visits to historic sites including Mount Vernon, the National Archives, Gunston Hall, Monticello, and Montpelier.
In order to prepare for the program, Fellows will complete readings about our Founding. Among the questions they will explore will be: How did the Founders define liberty? And Why did the Founders create a republic and not a democracy?. Upon completion of the Washington program, each Fellow will submit a lesson plan drawing upon the readings, discussions, and topics from the program. The Fellowship will continue during the following academic year, when Fellows will reconvene online for periodic discussions about reading and pedagogical issues.
The Founders Fellowship Program will select promising social studies teachers, grades 7-12, who have been teaching for five years or fewer. Early career teachers from all around the country are encouraged to apply. Twenty top teachers, representing 20 states will be selected to participate.
Fellows will be selected based upon their knowledge of the Founding era, their talent in the classroom, and dedication to educating their students.
. All application materials must be submitted by 5:00 PM EST on March 24, 2010.
We hope you consider applying for the Founders Fellowship Program in addition to passing the word on to your early-career colleagues.
The Founders Fellowship Program was made possible by a generous grant from Drs. Jack and Pina Templeton.
Bill of Rights Institute
The Bill of Rights Institute is launching their new First 5 in My Life Video Contest! Students in grades 7 through 12 are asked to create a 2-minute video in the following categories: First Amendment in Your Community or First Amendment in the United States. Students also need to submit written responses to 3-4 questions in the form of “Director’s Notes.” Made possible through generous support from Channel One, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism and Larry Smead, First 5 in My Life offers $10,000 in cash prizes.
The deadline to submit video is March 15, 2010. Please visit DoYouHaveTheRight.org/First5 to get contest details today!
NEW PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP AT WCSS
Our Watery World: Project WET Social Studies Educator Workshop. Marriott West Hotel, Madison, WI. March 12, noon to 4pm. Is it possible to pull people and place apart? At their roots, environmental issues are social issues and the other way around. Come learn how to bring the many concerns surrounding water into social studies lesson plans using Project WET. Project WET is an interdisciplinary K-12 conservation and environmental education program with over 90 activities focused on water. In this four hour workshop, participants will be introduced to the Project WET activity guide, engage in at least five activities, and have time to share ideas on how to use Project WET in their classrooms. Participants will leave the workshop with their own Project WET guides and a collection of educational resources from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that complement Project WET activities. No matter what specific subject or grade you teach, this teacher-tested program will enhance and diversify your teaching while meeting academic standards and helping students understand their inseparable ties to our water-y world. Cost: $20.00 (discounts available to participants registered for the 2010 WCSS Conference). Contact: Amalia Baldwin: amalia.baldwin@wisconsin.gov or (608) 264-8930 by March 8.
WCSS & IEC ANNOUNCE CRAIG KIELBURGER PRESENTATION OPEN TO PUBLIC!!
Craig Kielburger is the co-founder of Free The Children, a unique international development and youth empowerment non-profit organization. Since its founding in 1995, Free The Children has become the world’s leading youth-driven charity, inspiring an entire generation to stand up and have their voices heard.
With the involvement of more than a thousand Youth in Action groups, Free The Children has built more than 500 schools throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, providing daily education to more than 50,000 children. Through its Adopt a Village development model, it has established more than 23,500 alternative income projects to assist women and their families in achieving sustainable incomes. The organization has also formed successful partnerships with leading school boards across North America and Oprah’s Angel Network.
Craig is also the co-founder of Me to We, a social enterprise that encourages ethical living and global citizenship through socially responsible products and choices, while also helping Free The Children achieve financial sustainability. Me to We includes international volunteer travel programs, a publishing house, a music label, leadership workshops, a speakers’ bureau and a clothing line.
Craig has been awarded many national and international awards for his work, including The Roosevelt Freedom Medal, The World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (also known as the Children’s Nobel Prize) and he is one of the youngest recipients of the Order of Canada. Craig’s work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, 60 Minutes and The Today Show, and in People, Time and The Economist.
Kielburger will be the keynote speaker on Monday, March 15th at the Great Lakes Social Studies Conference in Middleton. His presentation will begin at 12:45. For more information on tickets (all proceeds will be donated to Free The Children & Me to We), please contact Katie Houlihan at khoulihan@wisc.edu or call (920) 213-9684.
ONE OF OUR OWN IS RUNNING FOR NCSS BOARD
ATTENTION NCSS MEMBERS! WCSS's own President Melissa Collum is running for delegate-at-large to the NCSS board. Melissa has made her mark on WCSS by heading two very successful conferences and reaching out to organizations that fit with the goals of our organization. Let's give her an opportunity to take her leadership skills to the NCSS board.
Two more On Demand Constitutional Seminar courses will be available in January 2010:
• NEW Origins and Arguments: Shaping the Bill Rights: based on //The Bill of Rights for Real Life// curriculum – units include “What are the Origins of the Bill of Rights,” and “Why a Bill of Rights?”
• NEW - Landmark Supreme Court Cases: A Document-Based Approach: based on //Supreme Court DBQs: Exploring the Cases That Changed History// curriculum – cases include Schenck vs. U.S. (1919); Brown v. Board of Education (1954); and Marbury v. Madison (1803)
On Demand Constitutional Seminars offer content and pedagogical strategies, streamed audio and video presentation by scholars, interactive simulations and presentations, and participants can complete the course at their own pace. Valued at $60 per teacher, you can register for only $15 per course! Click for more information.
2**Teaching US History with Howard Zinn**
{http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/Szof_f4q4qI/AAAAAAAAFfY/shoxfhBoHuc/s400/zep_400x300.jpg} **A People's History of the United States** {http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=freetechforte-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060838655} is frequently used by US History teachers in my school and in schools around the country because Zinn tells the history of the United States in a story that it is often different from that told in textbooks. A People's History of the United States to give students an alternative perspective on history.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.
**Watch American Experience Online**
**American Rhetoric - Famous Speeches from Politics and Entertainment**
AMAZING CIVIC EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY__
The Institute is entitled Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens: The National Academy for Civics and Government. It will take place July 10–31, 2010, and all expenses for per diem and books are covered by the grant. Because of supplemental funding provided by a grant from the Center for Civic Education, the airfares for those participants staying on the Loyola Marymount University campus will also be covered, which will possibly allow us to provide those participants a modest stipend.
The Institute has been an extraordinary success in years past, and we're looking forward to another great experience in 2010. Previous participants have discovered that Will Harris, the academic director for the National Academy for the past ten years, is a scholar and leader who knows how to conduct an intellectually rigorous immersion into political and constitutional theory and make it enjoyable. We're confident that next summer's participants will experience the same sense of "intellectual stretching" and camaraderie. That the group will include a mix of up to 5 international civic educators as well as Americans who teach elementary and secondary students should make it all the more professionally rewarding.
You can access information on the Institute on the Center's website at http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=training_detail&&eid=22516. There you will find information on eligibility; downloads for the Application for 2010, which also includes a brochure with general information on the program; the Course Outline; and the Agenda. The deadline to submit the application is March 2.
FinancialFinancial Literacy: TEACH IT! Makes its Début
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**
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....
{puzzle thinking like a.doc}
Conference March 17-18 200921-22 2011

Dynamic Social Studies
This session will take participants through “living examples” of how to integrate content AND develop students that are more creative, better communicators, thoughtful problem solvers, effective collaborators and efficient technology users.www.dynamicss.wikispaces.com

Dynamic Social StudiesDynamic Social Studies
This session will take participants through “living examples” of how to integrate content AND develop students that are more creative, better communicators, thoughtful problem solvers, effective collaborators and efficient technology users.This session will technology users.
http://dynamicss.com