Cantu Chapter 13

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Big Question: Is there such a thing as primary source overload for our students?


Interactive Site: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/interactives/declaration-of-independence/

Cantu Chapter 12

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Big Question: Why do the behavioral sciences take a back seat in the social studies domain? As an educator is it more important to learn psychology in order to teach the subject or in order to learn about students behaviors and be able to teach them?



Interactive Website: http://allpsych.com/games/index/ 

Loewen Chapter 12

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Big Question: How are we as historians and educators able to impact the way that history is taught?

Interactive Website: http://www.darfurisdying.com/ 

Cantu Chapter 11

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Big Question: How can we show students that geography is relevant to history not just the present?

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Interactive Website:  http://world-geography-games.com/

Cantu Chapter 10

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Big Question: Is it best to teach economics as it's own course or should we focus more one including economic principals in all of our social studies classes?



Interactive Website http://www.smgww.org/

Loewen Chapter 11

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Big Question: Is it part of our duty as civics teachers to promote the idea of American progress?



Interactive Website 

Cantu Chapter 9

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Big Question: If civics is the reason that social studies gets a seat at the big table, how can we show that all of the social studies can be as important as civics?



Interactive Website: https://www.icivics.org/games 

Lowen Chapter 10

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Big Question: Is it fair to say that we as teachers are not covering certain topics in as much detail as we should but also complain that we are not getting to the recent past?



Interactive Website: http://timeline.911memorial.org/#Timeline/2

Cantu Chapter 8

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Big Question: How can we as teachers possibly know everything we need to teach for all of the areas that make up social studies? Is it okay to tell students we don't know the answer to some of their questions?


Interactive Website: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/center/students/trade/index.htm

Loewen Chapter 6

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Big Question: In what ways can we help enable our students to overcome the racism they see in our society today?


A "crazy" John Brown

Interactive website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/maps/map.html

Cantu 6 and 7

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Big Question 6: Should we include technological standards in every lesson that we teach?

Interactive Website 6: http://www.mission-us.org/



Big Question 7: How can teachers stay up to date with technology and not become technologically illiterate from a pedagogical standpoint?

Interactive Website 7: https://bubbl.us/

Loewen Chapter 5

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Big Question: How can we address racial issues in the classroom and keep students' minds as open as possible?


Interactive Website: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/static/neh/interactives/civilwar/lesson1/civil_war.swf

Cantu Chapter 4

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Big Question: Is there a single best way to teach social studies? Do you have to follow a single one per lesson?



Interactive Website: https://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm

Loewen Chapter 3

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Big Question: How should teachers choose what is worth taking the time to teach and what they should leave out?



http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/ 

A website about the first Thanksgiving that would make Lowen extremely angry

Cantu Chapter 3

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Big Question: Can you use every level of blooms taxonomy in each lesson?



A lesson plan should be more than just a way to take up space and turn into the district office or the principal.

Interactive Website: http://worldpopulationhistory.org/map/1/mercator/1/0/25/

Cantu Chapter 2

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Many different subjects and ideas go into the "social studies"

Big Question: How can we as teachers still own our classrooms while following all of the standards?

http://www.teachtci.com/
This website is an interactive textbook and curriculum.

Cantu Chapter One

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Big Question: How can we incorporate multiple learning frameworks in our individual lessons?


Interactive Website: 

This is a website with many different interactive options looking at colonial Williamsburg. It goes hand in hand with the theory of multiple intelligences because its another form of learning that one can incorporate into their classroom.

Loewen Intro and Chapter 1

Lowen Intro and Chapter 1

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Big Question: How can we as teachers use textbooks to illuminate the present?

Interactive Website: http://histography.io/
This is an interactive website that works as a historical timeline. Students can click on certain events and learn more about them. I chose this site because it is an alternative that teachers could use from textbooks. It also helps show how much history their really is and all of the things that textbooks are leaving out, even though they are already too long.