department of social sciences miami-dade county public schools
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Department of Social Sciences
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
*2013 U.S. History Summer Institute
*Topics to be Covered
*Introduction to Dept. of Social Sciences web resources
*Thematic presentation of history
*Lesson Planning Using Backwards Design
*Item Specifications, Benchmarks, Teaching Strategies, & Changes to U.S. History Instruction
*Best Practices
*Outside Presenters:
*Common Core
*Primary Sources
From the Social Sciences website, teachers can access the U.S. History Toolbox
*Thematic Presentation of
U.S. History*Political History
*Military History
*Economic History
*Social History
*Political History*Political Evolution & Constitutional Government
*Congressional Power vs. Presidential Power
*Supreme Court Cases
*The United States in the World: Military History
&Foreign Policy
*Major Wars
*Military Interventions
*The Armed Forces at Home
*How the United States Interacted with Other Nations
*Economic History*Raising of Taxes & Tariffs
*Economic Trade & Development
*Economic Systems & Performance
*Social History
*Sectional Tensions
*Social Trends & Developments
*Civil Rights & Gender Relations
*American Religion
*Lesson Plans: Backwards
Design
*Know where you want to go, then map out the path
*Instructional Strategies:
Political Cartoons
*DBQ Project: Document Based
Questions
Strategies to teach students to analyze primary source documents
O.P.V.L.P.O.S.E.R.S.S.O.A.P.S.Tone
*Web Resources