ESC Region 17 Social Studies
History Rocks! Volume 3, Issue #6
UPDATE #1 APRIL 6, 2020
"...never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/never-give-in-never-never-never.html
A Changing World
Remote Learning for the Students and Teachers of Region 17
Contact for Specific Support
Weekly Zooms for Grade Level Supports
This week's topic is Thinking Like a Historian. The session will provide support resources and tools for teachers to work on high leverage Skills SE's!
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020
High School Zoom- 1:00
Elementary Zoom- 3:00
Email me for the link (don't need any Zoombombers!) sblankenship@esc17.net
Sabrina S. Blankenship
Email: sblankenship@esc17.net
Website: esc17.net
Location: 1111 West Loop 289, Lubbock, TX, USA
Phone: 806-281-5884
Start small! And Practical not Perfection!!
-1 learning aid-a reading, a map, a video, a lecture or slide set (one that your students are familiar with)
-1 discussion board or one overarching question (use the ones from TEKS Resource System)
-1 activity, short quiz, short writing prompt, or reader response
You could build your assignments around our historical thinking skills. All grade-levels have a version of these skills. A few of these skills could be used by all ages of students- so if a family has a 3rd grader, an 8th grader, and a junior- one image, three different sets of answers, three different levels of written responses.
Listed below is one way to organize this skill practice for a week. You could use the same format each week just change the 1-1-1 content. (new image, new famous person, new map, new reading passages, new game) Again, just a suggestion, and I will also keep adding resources as needed.
THINKING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Mapping Mondays
3 details
2 ways to use the information on the map
1 question you have about the map's features.
Check our Texas Alliance for Geographic Education for TEKS based resources
Take the Time to Read Tuesdays
Wonder Wednesdays
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/see-think-wonder
Thursdays are for Texas
Have students watch a video or play a game and write about the experience with a short writing prompt of your choosing!
LRE also just announced some new videos on the three branches of government!!!
Famous Person Fridays
Students can use technology or not-nothing wrong with paper and crayons! Students can the following resource from TexQuest (now free to all Texas teachers), that way they are not going to Wikipedia!
https://explore.proquest.com/sirsdiscoverer/home?accountid=180165
Copy of the TEKS for you to check the people in your grade level. Remember we had some changes to the secondary people due to the streamlining process.
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/index.html
Remember all those movies we used to show...
*REMEMBER YOUR SCHOOL'S MOVIE POLICY AS FAR AS RATINGS AND APPROPRIATENESS! COMMUNICATE WITH PARENTS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO WATCH AS WELL!!!!!!!