Social Studies: Much More than Boring Dead Guys!

KCSS Annual ConferenceSeptember 14, 2010

Carla Judd, NBCT4/5 Social Studies, Munfordville Elementarycarla.judd@hart.kyschools.us

History Class…zzzzzzz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA

Get out your cell phones!

Text your answers to 22-333

http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/LTIxMDA5Mjg5MTA

Poll Everywhere

http://www.polleverywhere.com/Allow student use of the cell phone in a

controlled way.Do open response polls or multiple

choice polls.You can allow students to submit

multiple responses so that students without phones can borrow a friend’s.

More polleverywhere.com

Teacher accounts are FREE but you don’t have to sign up for anything and can still use the service.

Easy, Quick Assessment

Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/

Great program for creating word clouds

I use this for vocabulary words, student interest inventories, posters for my classroom, and student projects.

wordle.net

A Wordle on the Constitution

Student Interest Inventory

Wallwisher

http://www.wallwisher.com/I use this to: monitor student responses

to new materialGet notes from parentsAllow students to ask questions privatelyStudent projects

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/nativeamericansjudd

Make Movies!

Dvolver @ http://www.dvolver.com/live/home.html

This is the easiest program I’ve found. Students don’t have to sign up and it’s free. Make movies in minutes!

http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-447492

Use to introduce new content or for student projects.

Easy as 1…2…3

Choose a background

Choose your plot

Choose characters, etc

Historical Tweets

http://historicaltweets.com/Very clever and funny way to summarize

historical figures.Have students read tweets and create

their own for historical figures.Easy to differentiate assignments.

Examples

Lewis and Clark

Harriet Tubman

George Washington Carver

Awesome Stories

Integrating Literacyand RTI/Differentiation

Leveled texts …………………..Reader’s TheaterTalking Drawings (draw

“Talking Drawings”

One of my favorite strategies!1. Give students a topic. Ex: Jamestown.2. Students visualize Jamestown and draw what

they “see”.3. Students read a selection (text, summaries, etc.

History Alive lends itself well to this strategy because information is chunked.)

4. Students visualize again and draw new pictures.5. Students explain what is different between the

two.