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I have recently added several new products to my TpT store and this is one of them. Thanks for checking it out! Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography and Culture Unit Guide This document is a full unit plan for introducing Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography and Culture, and is designed to meet Common Core and NYS SS Framework guidelines, while incorporating CC ELA skills. Embedded in my unit plan is also an Inquiry Design Model that was inspired by C3 (College, Career, and Civic Li

USS Guides This product is 80 PAGES of guided notes. Students fill in the missing information for each "chunk" of each unit listed below: American Civil War Civil War Reconstruction Industrial Growth of the late 1800s Immigration Progressive Era Imperialism World War I Roaring 1920s The Great Depression World War II The Cold War Civil Rights of the 1950s and 1960s The Last 50 Years Over the past ten years, from home but for my classroom, I created this United States Study Guide. I have found

I have recently added several new products to my TpT store and this is one of them. Thanks for checking it out! Page One = 5th Grade SS Syllabus, Based on NYS Standards Page Two = My own standards based grading rubric... I call it my "learning rubric" - because learning is more important than numbers. I also make a classroom bulletin board that goes along with this rubric. You'll see references to swimming in the rubric. The bulletin board simply illustrates the levels listed. East stude

US History Pacing Guide Week by week, the NYS Framework for 5th Grade Social Studies is chunked into a school-year long pacing guide! Not teaching in NYS? This pacing guide is great for anyone teaching US History to students ages 9 - 11. Key Ideas, Conceptual Understandings (Key Vocabulary), Content Specifications (What students should be able to do), and an outline for weekly instruction is all done for you in a neat chart. A blank monthly calendar follows each unit guide. I use the calend

This course syllabus and year long plan corresponds with the current New York State SS Framework, and Core Curriculum, for 12th Grade. You can find the specific NYS Framework for Part. in Gov. and Civ. on pages 45 - 47 in the PDF document found at: https://www.engageny.org/resource/new-york-state-k-12-social-studies-framework Here's what this product includes: - Participation in Government and Civics Syllabus - Course Outline - School-year calendar, displaying scope and sequence of unit to

I have recently added several new products to my TpT store and this is one of them. Thanks for checking it out! The Complex Societies and Civilizations Unit Guide This document is a full unit plan for introducing Complex Societies and Civilizations and is designed to meet Common Core and NYS SS Framework guidelines, while incorporating CC ELA skills. Embedded in my unit plan is also an Inquiry Design Model that was inspired by C3 (College, Career, and Civic Life) Teachers. NYS SS Framework

I have recently added several new products to my TpT store and this is one of them. Thanks for checking it out! The Early People of the Americas Unit Guide This document is a full unit plan for introducing the Early People of the Americas, and is designed to meet Common Core and NYS SS Framework guidelines, while incorporating CC ELA skills. Embedded in my unit plan is also an Inquiry Design Model that was inspired by C3 (College, Career, and Civic Life) Teachers. NYS SS Framework Key Idea

The Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages Unit Guide This document is a full unit plan for the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages, designed to meet Common Core and NYS SS Framework guidelines, while incorporating CC ELA skills. Embedded in my unit plan is also the an Inquiry Design Model that was inspired by C3 (College, Career, and Civic Life) Teachers. NYS SS Framework Key Ideas, Standards, Themes and Practices for unit 6.2 are also cited within this unit plan. However, if you teach outside of New Yo

What exactly does a grade of an 85 mean? How about a 100? 42? Is it a percentage of what the child knows, based on the learning goal? Does a 100% mean that the child knows 100% of what you were hoping they would learn? Likewise, does a grade of 42 mean they were able to comprehend 42% of what you taught? Does the child understand the significance the numeric scores? And, of what they mastered, were they able to simply recall the facts or were they able to use the information in a unique

NEW PRODUCT - updated 9/2/16 Introduce the continents in and basic geography of... the EASTERN HEMISPHERE! Fun + Learning = Happy Classroom Page one = Simple materials needed and directions for teachers Page two = Silly Sea Creature Map of Eastern Hemisphere Page three = Directions for Students Page four = Terms of Use I created the image myself... If I can do it, so can they! We're not looking for a masterpiece here, just hoping the students get an idea of the basic shapes of the contine

UPDATED - August, 2016 This is my personal fail-proof method of helping students to remember the names and locations of each of the 13 English Colonies. Extension/ Enrichment Activity Idea - Differentiate your classroom by challenging your high achieving students to create their own silly story, using the same play-with-words format found in my original version. Pages should download and print as listed here: Page One = Cover page Page Two = Story Page Three = Map and Directions for Stu

New Product Once again, I couldn't find exactly what I needed, so I made my own. Based on the New York State SS Framework for Participation in Government and Civics, I organized a list of words and phrases that seem essential for the course. This vocabulary list is not in alphabetical order, but in order of appearance based on units of instruction. A brief description / definition is included for each essential word or phrase. For some, a web link has been embedded within the vocabulary wo

Light A Fire in students' willingness to read, analyze primary source documents, and work as a team. This Civil War Gettysburg Address activity is differentiated based on reading levels to help all students understand Abraham Lincoln's speech. During this activity students will work independently, in small groups, and with the teachers as a whole class. Opportunities for movement are built in to this active reading technique. Although the Gettysburg Address is my chosen document for this pro

USS Guide 1 Civil War This is a proven effective method of helping students to organize and learn essential vocabulary and content related to the United States Civil War. This is one of thirteen unit guides available in my United States Study Guide Set. Light A Fire

DBQ = Document Based Question Three leveled DBQ essay writing guides, DBQ essay grading rubric and level to percent conversion chart, and many tried and true suggestions for how to use these guides in your own classroom are included. I created these guides as a solution to differentiating my classroom of students with various writing abilities and needs. I use these guides for my social studies classes. My ELA colleagues also use them; they are the folks who told me I should share them on Tp

After combing through countless New York State and regional exams, this is the list of essential unit topics and vocabulary that I have found to appear on most US History assessments. This list begins with the US Civil War and ends with the 9/11 Era.

What exactly does a grade of an 85 mean? How about a 100? 42? Is it a percentage of what the child knows, based on the learning goal? Does a 100% mean that the child knows 100% of what you were hoping they would learn? Likewise, does a grade of 42 mean they were able to comprehend 42% of what you taught? Does the child understand the significance the numeric scores? And, of what they mastered, were they able to simply recall the facts or were they able to use the information in a unique

So the other day I was annoyed that I couldn't find a simple list of landforms and their descriptions. So, I put one together. Over 50 different landforms are included... I'm sure it's not a complete list, but it served our purpose. BTW, after a unit on basic geography, I gave my students this list and a bingo paper that I crafted out of construction paper and MS Word 4X4 chart and we played "Coastal Cupcake Bingo". The winners got my home-made cupcakes (see photo on sample page). Cup

This guide helps students to critically analyze reports in the media. What's news? What's factual? And what is something else?Using this guide, students will COMPARE two different news articles about the same event topic. They choose the event topic. Something they are personally interested in. It may be controversial - Climate change? Vaccinations? Flu season? Legalizing marijuana? Video game violence? The latest on exercise practices? Technology? Etc. Etc. Etc. Just let them ski

This is my syllabus for NYS Participation in Government & Civics class. As a half year course, over three marking periods, each marking period is one unit in my class: Unit One = The History of United States Government Unit Two = The Legal System (US & NY) Unit Three - Political Spectrum and the Election Process Each marking period, and thus each unit, consists of 100 points. The points are divided into six categorical assessments. Each assessment is explained on my syllabus. I have