Showing posts with label Social Studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Studies. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Social Studies Curriculum Writing Project

PESD teachers are working during intersession to:
  • Develop big ideas for 5 Social Studies strands
  • Develop essential questions for each strand
  • Develop conceptual focus for each of three units for K-6 and 6 units for 7-8.

Along with the Social Studies work, teachers are exploring ways to integrate technology into instruction. One of the on-line tools they are exploring is Learning.com's Easy Tech program.

They will spend the next three days working on this project. The district has chosen to use the research-based framework "Understanding by Design" in partnership with http://www.afre.org/.