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.