This document provides an overview of strategies and resources for teaching social studies using a Common Core approach. It emphasizes developing literacy skills through social studies content by having students collect information, collaborate, create new understanding, and communicate their ideas. Examples include analyzing primary sources, discussing different perspectives, asking questions to guide inquiry, and connecting past events to students' own lives. The goal is to help students see the relevance of social studies for understanding themselves and their role in society.
3. “The brain developed to solve
problems relating to surviving in
an unstable, outdoor environment
and to do so in near constant
motion.”
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John Medina
Brain Rules
17. My name is Walking-Dog. I lived a long time ago. I am an
Osage boy. The sun is coming up. I am getting ready for a
busy day. Today my brothers and I will help our father. We
will go hunting near our home. We hunt for deer and
rabbits. We will eat some sweet, wild berries when we hunt.
My sisters will help our mother. She is cooking buffalo meat
and wild potatoes in a stew. It will cook all day long.
When we come home from hunting, we eat the buffalo stew.
Then we will sit around the fire and talk. My grandfather
tells us stories. He tells us about our history. I like to hear
my grandfather tell stories. I learn many things from my
grandfather.
The sun has gone down. It is dark in our lodge. It is time to
go to sleep. Tomorrow will be another busy day.
18. My name is Sarah. I lived a long time ago. I am a pioneer
girl. The sun is coming up. I am getting ready for a busy
day. Today my sisters and brothers and I will go to school.
I help my mother make a lunch for me to take to school. I
will take a piece of fried chicken for lunch. I will take an
apple, too. My brothers help our father. They milk the
cows. My sisters and I feed the chickens.
We walk a mile to go to school. Our teacher helps us to
read. We learn many things from our teacher at school. At
the end of the day we walk home again. After dinner
Papa reads the Bible to us. I learn many things when Papa
reads to us.
The sun has gone down. It is dark in our cabin. It is time to
go to sleep. Tomorrow will be another busy day.
19. How is your day the same and
different as Walking Dog and
Sarah?
20. Common Core
“the cogent reasoning and
use of evidence essential
to responsible citizenship
in a democratic republic.”
41. In those days, they had rabbit drives. The rabbits got so thick, yeah,
we had rabbit drives . . . somebody organized it and we made a big
circle, then we’d close in on ‘em, had a big pen out in the middle
and boy, the jack rabbits, they squealed.
One time, just south of the river, we had a drive. We circled clear
around about four miles; we walked about two miles. And never let
‘em go by and drove ‘em into that pen, and people got in there with
clubs, and clubbed ‘em to death. And then they got some money out
of the rabbits.
They had to do something with the rabbits eating the crops, they’d
just eat it down to nothin’. There were so many . . . And it helped
out.
Elmer Wetzel
Born September 1908
Ford County, Kansas
56. “The painting The First Thanksgiving 1621 is
a useful resource for historians who wish to
understand the relationship between the
Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrim settlers
in 1621.”
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Do you agree or disagree?
Briefly support your answer.
57. SOAP S - speaker or
subject
O - occasion?
A - audience?
P - purpose of the
document?
84. We never would have found this
person if the person hadn’t been so
hard to find.
85. At a young age, Laura Ingalls moved with her
family to South Dakota where they decided
to start a farm. Very few large trees grew in
South Dakota. The Ingalls did not have
enough money to buy lumber for their
house.
But they needed shelter from the below zero
degree winter. Their new house was built in
two weeks and kept them warm in winter /
cool in summer. They lived in their new
house for many years.
103. Nina Rabbit
has grandmother
long hair
dark skin
tells stories
no family
big ears
furry
white
same town
live near beach
know same people
love dark skin
friendly
105. Fence Sitter
US government treatment of Native
Americans during the 1800s was good
for the country
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Becoming a patriot in 1776 was the
smart thing to do
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Recess rules are a good idea
