Building the Room: Teaching and Assessing Social Studies, SD61 PD Session at Uplands Campus, Victoria (May 21, 2019)
Workshop handout (pdf) | Workshop slideshow (pdf)
Purpose of Social Studies exercise (pdf)
Unit Planning Ingredients - small (8.5x11) (pdf) | Unit Planning Ingredients - big (11x17) (pdf)
Heritage Inquiry (websites) - General resources | Skookum Stories | Echo Project
TTSP - projects from the Pacific Slope Consortium: http://www.pacificslope.ca/ttsp.html
Assessing the "Capacities" in Social Studies: full version (pdf) | student-friendly version (pdf)
Victoria Geoscape (link)
Manipulatives Activity: Fraser Canyon War sources & article & add'l info
Manipulatives Activity: Japanese Internment in Canada & teacher guide
Story Cards: Heritage Inquiry prompts - Story Cards Guide • Story Cards Front • Story Cards Back
Purpose of Social Studies exercise (pdf)
Unit Planning Ingredients - small (8.5x11) (pdf) | Unit Planning Ingredients - big (11x17) (pdf)
Heritage Inquiry (websites) - General resources | Skookum Stories | Echo Project
TTSP - projects from the Pacific Slope Consortium: http://www.pacificslope.ca/ttsp.html
Assessing the "Capacities" in Social Studies: full version (pdf) | student-friendly version (pdf)
Victoria Geoscape (link)
Manipulatives Activity: Fraser Canyon War sources & article & add'l info
Manipulatives Activity: Japanese Internment in Canada & teacher guide
Story Cards: Heritage Inquiry prompts - Story Cards Guide • Story Cards Front • Story Cards Back
Competencies in Context - Social Studies Gr. 4-12, Robson Valley PD Day (May 10, 2019)
Story Cards: Heritage Inquiry prompts - Story Cards Guide • Story Cards Front • Story Cards Back
For the other things we discussed & did, see below for links.
For the other things we discussed & did, see below for links.
Building the Room: Teaching and Assessing Social Studies, SD33 PD Day @ Chilliwack Senior Secondary (Feb 22, 2019)
Building the Room slideshow (pdf)
workshop handout (pdf)
See below for other resources and inclusions from the workshop
workshop handout (pdf)
See below for other resources and inclusions from the workshop
Building the Room / Curriculum Design, SD28 Quesnel Curriculum Day @ Correlieu (Feb 15, 2019)
AM Building the Room slideshow (pdf)
PM Curriculum Design slideshow (pdf)
Unit Planning and Inquiry Values (pdf)
Design Thinking workshop handout (pdf)
Resources for Systems Thinking: http://donellameadows.org/systems-thinking-resources/
"Panarchy" as Design Thinking: http://www.sustainablescale.org/conceptualframework/understandingscale/measuringscale/panarchy.aspx
TTSP - projects from the Pacific Slope Consortium: http://www.pacificslope.ca/ttsp.html
Assessing the "Capacities" in Social Studies: full version (pdf) | student-friendly version (pdf)
PM Curriculum Design slideshow (pdf)
Unit Planning and Inquiry Values (pdf)
Design Thinking workshop handout (pdf)
Resources for Systems Thinking: http://donellameadows.org/systems-thinking-resources/
"Panarchy" as Design Thinking: http://www.sustainablescale.org/conceptualframework/understandingscale/measuringscale/panarchy.aspx
TTSP - projects from the Pacific Slope Consortium: http://www.pacificslope.ca/ttsp.html
Assessing the "Capacities" in Social Studies: full version (pdf) | student-friendly version (pdf)
Heritage Inquiry: Students as Master Storytellers, PGSS (Jan 28, 2019)
AM: Building the Room: Teaching and Assessing Social Studies
PM: Curriculum Design for Creative and Critical Thinking
SD42 Curriculum Implementation Day (Jan 25, 2019)
AM session: Building the Room - slideshow (pdf)
PM session: Curriculum Design for Creative and Critical Thinking (Social Studies) - slideshow (pdf)
Critical Thinking Docs from Peter Ellerton
Manipulatives Activity, AM session: Fraser Canyon War sources & article & add'l info
Manipulatives Activities: PM session: Cdn Japanese Internment & teacher guide
Resources for Systems Thinking: http://donellameadows.org/systems-thinking-resources/
"Panarchy" as Design Thinking: http://www.sustainablescale.org/conceptualframework/understandingscale/measuringscale/panarchy.aspx
TTSP - projects from the Pacific Slope Consortium: http://www.pacificslope.ca/ttsp.html
Building the Room - title slide image: https://artsfile.ca/museum-of-history-the-lessons-of-the-middle-ages-resonate-today-in-new-exhibition/
See also: the Oct 19 Design Thinking workshop links below
PM session: Curriculum Design for Creative and Critical Thinking (Social Studies) - slideshow (pdf)
Critical Thinking Docs from Peter Ellerton
Manipulatives Activity, AM session: Fraser Canyon War sources & article & add'l info
Manipulatives Activities: PM session: Cdn Japanese Internment & teacher guide
Resources for Systems Thinking: http://donellameadows.org/systems-thinking-resources/
"Panarchy" as Design Thinking: http://www.sustainablescale.org/conceptualframework/understandingscale/measuringscale/panarchy.aspx
TTSP - projects from the Pacific Slope Consortium: http://www.pacificslope.ca/ttsp.html
Building the Room - title slide image: https://artsfile.ca/museum-of-history-the-lessons-of-the-middle-ages-resonate-today-in-new-exhibition/
See also: the Oct 19 Design Thinking workshop links below
Design Thinking for SS Teachers - BCSSTA Conference (Oct 19, 2018)
Offshore Education Collaborative - Vancouver/Langley (July 10th, 2017)
See the "Sunshine Coast" links below for most of the relevant workshop content. Here are pdfs of the presentations:
A.M. Welcome to the Forest: Teacher Creativity Models — case studies in Social Studies and the Curricular Competencies
P.M. Students as Master Storytellers: Exploring Heritage Inquiry with Social Studies Students
A.M. Welcome to the Forest: Teacher Creativity Models — case studies in Social Studies and the Curricular Competencies
P.M. Students as Master Storytellers: Exploring Heritage Inquiry with Social Studies Students
Sunshine Coast Social Studies Teachers (February 10th, 2017)
For the morning session, here is a pdf of the slideshow: Heritage Inquiry, Project & Resource Ideas, and new curriculum discussions.
For the afternoon session, here is a pdf of the slideshow: Planning, teaching, and assessing Social Studies in the context of new curriculum.
If you saw or heard anything in the morning or afternoon sessions that you want to follow up on, just let me know. Here's the three articles we discussed: Newmark on Gimmicks, Welsh on Choice and Flexibility, and Martelli on Curricula Issues. Some of the other resources and links can also be found below with the BCSSTA 2016 presentation, or can be found elsewhere on this site or over at pacificslope.ca. Thanks for coming!
For the afternoon session, here is a pdf of the slideshow: Planning, teaching, and assessing Social Studies in the context of new curriculum.
If you saw or heard anything in the morning or afternoon sessions that you want to follow up on, just let me know. Here's the three articles we discussed: Newmark on Gimmicks, Welsh on Choice and Flexibility, and Martelli on Curricula Issues. Some of the other resources and links can also be found below with the BCSSTA 2016 presentation, or can be found elsewhere on this site or over at pacificslope.ca. Thanks for coming!
