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Week 01 - Monday, 22 January
During class (ppt)
Introductions, overviews
As a demo of the wiki, and as a follow up to our intro bit, here are a couple resources that might help you engage with getting-to-know-one-another routines for your classroom
Social studies as a job: Take a look at job openings in Allentown SD (click on HS or MS links): https://www.applitrack.com/Allentown/onlineapp/jobpostings/view.asp?internaltransferform_Url&category=High%20School%20Teaching&subcategory=Social%20Studies
Looking at some local(-ish) courses of study in social studies
Allentown SD program of studies – link to pdf at bottom of this page: https://www.allentownsd.org/parents___students/student_resources/program_of_studies
Bethlehem Area School District 2019-20 (start at p. 23): https://basdwpweb.beth.k12.pa.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/11/FINAL-District-POS-2019-2020.pdf
Southern Lehigh 2023-24 (: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NoL31ds_XugRLTI9LfxOIE__0BRdXaaW/view
Kutztown Area School District (K-12): https://www.kasd.org/academics/curriculum-assessment-and-professional-development/social-studies
Frameworks & illustrating activities
Built environment scavenger hunt / community resources
This can be done a lot of ways. We’re doing something super simple (just photos and a paper checklist), but you can also do it (or do variations of it) using…
ArcGIS Online: https://lu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=e949efad87e142ef924c49d6617bf0de
Google Earth
Demonstration lesson #2: “Whose Land?” reflection & investigation
I’m going to ask you to use your ArcGIS Online account: lu.maps.arcgis.com
And here are the instructions (and example): https://docs.google.com/document/d/13pYrJPimsRVzk2W8ugmYA8-qL_T-us_Z8o1DCCpAmvo/edit?usp=sharing
Goals for the course, last framing metaphor
Syllabus review, looking over assignments
Closure
After class
Assignments
Starting working on your first Original Instructional Material (OIM)
Writing-to-Learn (WTL): Complete your 'Social Studies Autobiography' (just a webform): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdX5krCKkfRd3h8VFFkuUZMhS71cLnW8xZQy4yt9ve9MHTYnA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Download all of the standards in the folder in CourseSite. Save them on your computer in an easily-accessible space
Reading
Skim the C3 standards ('College, Career, and Civic Life') from the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Chapin, Ch. 1
Read NCSS, 2008. In fact, the whole list of NCSS position statements is probably worth bookmarking!
Read Gaudelli & Laverty, 2017 (find it in the 'Copyrighted readings' folder in CourseSite. FYI: Gaudelli is the dean of Lehigh's College of Ed, so give this a think!
Optional – again, you can find these in the 'Copyrighted readings' folder in CourseSite: Mehlinger, 1988; Crocco, 2004
Week 02 - Monday, 29 January
Before class
Complete reading
Fill out your 'Social studies autobiography'
Download & organize standards documents
During class (ppt)
Brief re-visit of frameworks from last week
New framework: Goals / stances for teaching social studies
Illustrative activity: Image markup, looking at branches of government
Purposes of social studies; what kind of citizen?
Eco as a starting point for discussing civics & the civic-focused mission of social studies:
Civics standards (light touch)
Pedagogical strategies for teaching civics – let's mess around on the JamBoard here:
https://jamboard.google.com/d/1Z5Bgz3_SqYV1Wb0KzVQ9KntoOiGsW-NyRGXJZMFJ7o0/edit?usp=drive_link
Closure
After class
Read civics standards: PDE + C3 civics section
Westheimer & Kahne (‘What kind of citizen’) – skim; go in depth if you wish
Chapin, Ch. 7 (“Civic Education & Global Education”, in the 4th edition; note that I’m not fully engaging with the global ed part, but please do read it)
Complete & bring to class your first Original Instructional Material (OIM)
Writing-to-Learn (WTL) in CourseSite on standards & question of ‘What kind of citizen?’
Week 03 - Monday, 5 February
Before class
Complete & bring in your OIP #1
Complete reading
Complete WTL
During class (ppt)
Current events??
OIM show-and-tell
TCH sharing his OIM: Government Game (Southside Bethlehem edition) – see ActionBound.com to learn how to build this type of game
Connecting OIMs to TPACK…
Connecting OIMs to standards, particularly civics standards
Standards in social studies – I’m about to say something dangerous, or at least contestable….
Act 35 in Pennsylvania: Civics, authority, and a permission structure for professional disrespect
Instructional planning: FRAMES for planning instruction
Giving-prompting-making (for any content area)
Self-others-action (particularly for civics?)
Closure
After class
Reading
Chapin, Ch. 2 (instructional planning)
optional: Hammond & Manfra, 2009 (giving-prompting-making)
Assignments
Create & turn in HTCE image set
WTL on civics (two-parter!)
Think about OIM #2
Week 04 - Tuesday, February 12
Before class
Create & turn in HTCE image set
WTL on civics
(Thoughts about OIM #2? We’ll want to discuss in class)
During class (ppt)
Current events? I’m thinking about news.google.com – can you curate a version of the news feed to give you what you need for a civics class??
Housekeeping
Sequencing – civics-first is a relatively recent move for me…why??
And a warm up civics activity: let’s have a debate!
Rationales for the emphasis on civics
NCSS
(vs. the usual inertia)
my evolving rationale
re-thinking some classic civics moves
Re-thinking debates: Who gets to call too-close-to-call elections?
‘Structures of government’ lesson – re-build this to emphasize democracy & its virtues?? (stand-alone Jamboard)
Attempted social frame for my civics rationale
A special case: Games & simulations for civics; games = civics …and civics = games??
A very special case: Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes simulation (start at 5:00; trigger warning for language depending on how far we get!)
More games (& simulations) for civics: iCivics.org/games
Closure
After class
Reading: Chapin, Ch. 3
Complete & turn in OIM #2
Complete WTL on iCivics games
Week 05 - Tuesday, February 19
Before class
Complete reading
Complete OIM #2
Complete WTL
During class (ppt)
Housekeeping & framing ideas to date
Touching some final resources / activities for civics
iCivics: https://www.icivics.org/games
Project Citizen: https://www.civiced.org/project-citizen
Street Law: https://store.streetlaw.org/lessons/
Current events! Suggested principles
Local > non-local
Engage students: Seek relevance; leave room for voice/choice
Link to civic knowledge / skills / dispositions
PA Constitution: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/00/00.HTM
Set up routines
Civics as the integrative discipline
Legislated civics
Constitution Day / Citizenship Day: https://www2.ed.gov/policy/fund/guid/constitutionday.html
PA Act 70 of 2014: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/li/uconsCheck.cfm?yr=2014&sessInd=0&act=70
Civics & geography
Water infrastructure: https://lu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=e4f2cc5fe9ce443cbf617166780b5153
What's in a state name
Spreadsheet
Map
Civics & history
Signers of Declaration of Independence: https://lu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=e4f2cc5fe9ce443cbf617166780b5153
Civics & economics
Food supply chain (rare complete example): https://aihstigers.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=455d0839ee4b4e2cb92978c8b9b38807
Closure
After class
Read Chapin, Ch. 4
Complete & turn in Course Plan #1
Write the history of the world...in 30 minutes or less
Week 6 - Monday, 26 February
Before class
Complete reading
Turn in Course Plan #1
Complete WTL
During class (ppt)
Housekeeping
History ed – time to get started!
Opening activity: "Story of Aaron", using info drawn from http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/
De-brief...
A couple of frames for history ed
"History for democracy"?
History vs. history ed
Activity #2: Jewish populations before vs. after Holocaust
Starting point
So I put it on a map
Using contemporary boundaries... https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=0f952aee6f1142f3a36577c1c3fa81c3&extent=-16.7872,36.2982,69.3457,63.7343
(Need something that is accurate to 1933 ... or 1936? 1939?
An attempted contrast
Virginia Center for Digital History at UVA: http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.php?page=VCDH
Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond: https://dsl.richmond.edu/index.html
Three tactics for teaching history while engaging civics
Putting a lamp on the pluralism / emphasize the inclusion / wave the diversity banner
"So what?" strategy
I did this via a digital documentary tool, PrimaryAccess, but you can do it with anything: https://stagetools.com/vis/pa/
"Doing history" via Wikipedia...which I think is the best platform for it
Frederick Winslow Taylor; we'll dip into his Principles of Scientific Management (1912) just briefly: https://archive.org/details/principlesofscie00taylrich/page/44/mode/2up?view=theater
Entry on Henry Noll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Noll
Demonstrating read vs. write vs. talk vs. history: Use the Wikipedia Main Page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) and explore the 'In the news” and “On this day” and “Did you know” features to pick an article to demonstrate…
Example of growth in a Wikipedia entry
Closure
After class
Reading
Chapin, Ch. 6
Read history standards (PDE, C3)
Skim Hammond, 2010 if you want to read more about ‘So what?’ activity
Assignments
Think about Course Plan #2…but it’s not due!
WTL: What is your current pattern of use of Wikipedia? Is there a topic in the history curriculum for which you think you might find it useful?
Week 07 - Monday, 4 March
Before class
Complete reading
Think about Course Plan #2!
Complete WTL
During class (ppt)
Housekeeping
History education - 'Signature pedagogies'; we'll be dipping in and out of our JamBoard for this
Chronology
Sourcework
From DocsTeach at the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets
Narrative...but this needs some help
Frameworks: One is good, two is better?
Periodization
After class
Reading
C3 standards: Read the section on the Inquiry Arc
Catch up on anything in the textbook or standards that you didn’t get to from previous weeks
Optional: For the historical thinking nerds, you have to read Wineburg, 1991
Assignments
WTL post to warm up to Course Plan #2 (please do before spring break!)
Complete & turn in Course Plan #2 (after spring break)
WTL on history ed resources (whenever)
Week 08 - Monday, 11 March – No class! Lehigh is on Spring Break!
Week 09 - Monday, 18 March
Before class
Complete & turn in Course Plan #2
Complete WTL
During class (ppt)
Discussing remaining assignments
Current events, history education, and the Inquiry Learning Arc
Wikipedia as an all-purpose tool for history education
Content
Pro-democratic processes
Reading talk pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frederick_Winslow_Taylor
Creating your own articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Noll
Historical thinking skills
Images in context: Consider the following two images of the Boston Massacre
Historical investigation – we'll use the article on the Pledge of Allegiance
When was it created? Why?
What historical information on this page is already familiar to you?
What historical information on this page is unfamiliar to you? How can you corroborate it?
Wikipedia, generative AI, and the crisis for social studies instruction
We'll be looking at three responses asking ChatGPT to compare and contrast the cases of Dred Scott and Lucy Berry
Closure
After class
Reading – none
Assignments
Complete and turn in curriculum map
Complete WTL on Wikipedia and/or generative AI
Week 10 - Monday, 27 March
Before class
Complete curriculum map
Complete WTL
During class (ppt)
Microteaching demo (sort of)
Google Earth file I'll be using
Sorting / scheduling our microteaching
Big Brain Thought #1: Wikipedia, generative AI, and the Inquiry Arc
Big Brain Thought #2: Pitching a 'pro-democracy' goal for history education, starting with a clumsy parallel with Ibram X. Kendi's work
Time permitting: Some playing around with images
After class
Reading
Wineburg, 2004
Optional: ISI, 2006
Assignments
Think about your unit overview – it is due next Mon (8 Apr)
Come to class prepared to go outside! We'll be doing a scaffolded geocache to get started on geography ed
Week 11 - Monday, 3 April
Before class
Complete reading
Think about / work on your microteaching lesson
Come prepared to go outside!
During class (ppt)
Meeting in lobby of Iacocca! 6:30. We will head outside
Back in class: Let's make sure we're lined up for microteaching next week...
Geography ed! I have no idea how far we are going to get through this; expect some of these to roll over to next week / week after...
TRADITIONAL: What's where and what's it called
A gameified approach: Stack the States / Stack the Countries
Who can name the most post-Soviet republics? Name which countries in Africa were not created via de-colonization? (Tricky question...)
Sketchmaps! Draw me a sketchmap of...Iacocca Hall? Canada?
What is the tallest mountain in North America? Let's take a look via Google Maps...
DISCIPLINARY - Tools of geography
Scaffolded geocache
Other coordinate systems: Try this? https://what3words.com/
Mapping an orange (see the lesson plan I'm adapting here: https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp009.shtml
Photos & video
Photos
Flickr map: https://www.flickr.com/map – my usual move is to search for 'mosque'
'What the World Eats' activity (see ppt in CourseSite)
Video – I'll demonstrate this through a couple of things posted to YouTube...but I'm not going to link them in advance
DISCIPLINARY - The whys of where
So why did the name of the tallest mountain in North America change? Or should we instead say the name(s) didn't change so much as the pattern of use changed? And why did that pattern of use change?
More playing with names and their significance: What's in a State Name? See this spreadsheet, then this map
Follow-ups: Can you do this same thing with Canada? Fun trick: Look at maps of Canada in the English version of Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada ) vs. the French version (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#Provinces_et_territoires )
How about Mexico? Guatemala? County names in Pennsylvania? County names in England?
SOCIAL - Geography is power!
Initial example of what I'm talking about: "Town map of Bethlehem and vicinity", circa 1758: https://exhibits.lafayette.edu/s/lvhmc/item/35941
Maps that make a point: https://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8618261/america-maps-truths
Geospatial inquiry: Weaving the Globe (this is again a lesson borrowed from elsewhere, in this case an old article in Social Education)
Geospatial inquiry in students' neighborhoods: Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse and Other (Un)natural Disasters
Homebrewing your own localized historical geographic inquiry: Sanborn maps. For example, what's buried underneath Lehigh's College of Business?? (Look here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IfeI25VDAmnGXOmCSYM_lvH81lrjvegu/view?usp=sharing )
Maps, analysis, and making decisions: Eagles and Wind Turbines (see Leeson et al., 2022)
After class
Download and read geography standards
Read Chapin, Ch. 8 (geography ed)
Skim Leeson et al., 2022
Complete and turn in unit overview
Prep for microteaching
Complete WTL on geography ed resources (can complete later, if needed – microteaching definitely takes priority!)
Week 12 - Monday, 8 April