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2008 FWISD TAKS Review Notebook Eyewitness Exhibit:
Lessons using paintings from the Sid Richardson Museum and documents from the NARA-Southwest Region Gilder-Lehrman Institute - Online Exhibitions includes Alexander Hamilton, Dred Scot, Abraham Lincoln
TAKS II - Professional Development presented by Sherry Owens of S3, Diverse Students + Effective Strategies = Classroom Success Instructions and Key to Cartooning Chronology Cartooning Chronology Part One Cartooning Chronology Part Two Social Studies Language Word Wall Vocabulary Matching Game Part I Vocabulary Matching Game Part II with Instructions
The Gilder-Lehrman Institute has posted twenty teaching modules on the major eras of United States History. Each unit is filled with primary source documents, photographs, data, songs, etc. It is truly a "one stop shopping" site for all teachers to use. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/modules.html Sample Lessons from Law Focused Education, Inc. A "Workable" Mayflower Compact May I Quote You on This? (Civil War) Does My Vote Count? (Electoral College) New Site! "A Freedom for US" organized units, lesson plans and activities, web videos, thousands of images, games presented by PBS.org Watch video 7 with Annalisa Loeffler, Teacher Training Workshop, demonstrating how to use FREEDOM lesson plans in class
Lesson Plans Created by FWISD Social Studies Teachers Grade 8 United States History Lessons "Lesson Plan Cause and Effects of the American Revolution" "Lesson Plan Andrew Jackson as President" "Interpreting the Meaning and Effects of the Monroe Doctrine" "A Body of Work - The Reformers" "The Era of Reform power point" "Advertising for the Westward Movement" "Chinese Immigration in the West" "Lesson Plan Industrialization" "John Brown: Martyr or Murderer?" "Comparing Inaugural Speeches: A. Lincoln and L.B. Johnson" "Recruiting Posters of the Civil War" "Major Battles and Events of the Civil War" "The Emancipation Proclamation" "Securing the Blessings of Liberty - The Emancipation Proclamation" "Battle of Antietam" and powerpoint "Examining the Emancipation and the Great Emancipator" "Gettysburg Address " and powerpoint
Internet Lessons and Podcasts Podcasts - The American Experience (click POD on the right for a list of topics) Understanding the Colonial Economy - one day lesson using charts, graphs and critical thinking skills. Embargo Act of 1807 Commentary -James Madison Center Balancing Three Branches at Once: Our System of Checks and Balances This lesson has everything a class needs; readings, primary sources, activities to learn how our government works A Look at Slavery Through Posters and Broadsides This lesson from the Gilder Lehrman Institute uses primary sources, group work and critical thinking skills to investigate the institution of slavery. Grade 8 Examining the Middle Passage Using first person accounts, this Gilder Lehrman lesson investigates the treatment of Africans as they crossed over the "middle passage." Grade 6-8 Women of the Industrial Era - Indivdual lessons on Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Clara Barton Grade 6-8 On the Oregon Trail - This lesson uses diary entries and photographs of the time period to help students discover the trials and tribulations of the Trail. Grade 6-8 Before Brother Fought Brother: Life in the North and South 1847-1861 This is a unit with four different lessons, looking at economics, slave life, women in society and life before the Civil War Grade 6-8 The Civil War: A War of Resources: a lesson from the National Council of Economic Education, internet based. Grade 8 The Civil War as Photographed by Matthew Brady - In small groups, students will analyze Civil War photographs, create an in-class gallery and write a diary entry from a Civil War soldier's viewpoint Grade 5-12 Presidential Inaugurations -The Gateway to Educational Materials created by the Department of Education, has put together links that give students the history of inaugurations, primary sources such as presidential speeches and photographs, and articles comparing different inaugurations throughout our history. Grade 8 & 11 Voting Rights for Women: Pro and Anti Suffrage - Students will investigate the struggle for women's suffrage from 1848 to the 19th Amendment in 1920. Grade 8 & 11 Battle Lines: Letters from American's Wars - Listen to readings and examine the original letters (from Revolutionary War through World War II) covering such subjects as enlisting, missing the comforts of home and love
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