Social Sciences

Most Social Studies topics incorporate archaeological information. Learn about standards-based educational resources offered by the leading international archaeology organizations. Lesson plans, classroom resources, and recommended electronic media provided.

Session presents a model to support social and literacy development of ELLs. Classroom experiences were designed to validate and engage families of children ages 3-5 using funds of knowledge.

"Using authentic student-created projects and feedback, contemporary Web 2.0 technologies’ affordances and constraints relative to teaching and learning elementary grades social studies content will be explored."

This presentation highlights the usage of primary source documents and images in the social studies classroom. These primary sources aid in communicating curricular goals to students within social studies classrooms.

Circular Collaboration holds students accountable through cooperative learning that divides a task into different stages that build on each other. Learn how to increase participation and results.

"This Poster Session session describes the integration of an instructional technology lesson, based on the Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework, in an elementary social studies methods course."

This session will investigate the structures to running an effective book club as a form of ongoing professional development. Strategies for creating curricular and discipline based thinking are included.

"Historical structures represent culture, history, geography, people, and unique experiences. Studying monuments can illuminate the interdependent relationships among these topics and other content areas such as art and math."

"Participants will learn about the history, current practice, and continued development of African based cultural traditions in Latin America through the exploration of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art form. "

Learn how Project Open Horizons trained teachers to break down the barriers to learning for English Language Learners in their classrooms through engaging interactions and 21st century literacies.