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Student Notesheet for "Visualizing Cultures: Picturing the Past (Canton)"

This notesheet abbreviates the many, many slides that are in the teacher presentation so that students can both take notes and follow the presentation. Print note sheet with 3 slides per page so that the picture and lines for writing notes print out on a single sheet.

Visualizing Cultures Lesson Plan

Teacher Instructions, handouts and resources for Picturing the Past: A trip to Canton (first presented at UCLA's History/Geography Project "Visualizing Cultures" workshop, August 2010).

Visualizing Cultures: Picturing the Past (Canton)

PowerPoint presentation for the UCLA/UCI History-Geography Project's "Visualizing Cultures" workshop. Presented August 11, 2010.

Picturing the Past: 4-Square Chart

Chart for students to use when exposed to numerous sources on a topic. Example: Industrial Revolution ("Molly Maguires," Charles Dickens readings, testimonies from U.K. photographs, "Triangle Factory Fire Scandal.")

Fakebook project template

Blank template for use (for background information about a leader) when creating "Fakebook" pages; good for history standards that require students to memorize a large number of people (such as the WWII standard for grade 10)

Fakebook Project Instructions

Guidelines for students completing "Fakebook" pages; can be used with blank "Farcebook" posters as well.

Fakebook Project Template (Wall Postings)

Blank "wall" for other leaders and historical figures to write on your assigned leader's "Fakebook" page. Good for standards that require memorization of many leaders.

Bloom's Taxonomy (Old) w/pyramid

Ned Acker's classroom version of Bloom's Taxonomy. Teachers for this TIIP grant favored the older version of Bloom's taxonomy to the newer version.

TIIP teacher changes log

Keep track of teaching changes you have made during the TIIP grant on a log like this one.

Modified PBS Media Literacy Quiz

Given as a pre-test for students to assess their awareness of media use by teens; numbers from original PBS media literacy quiz updated by Adrienne Karyadi.

Bloom's Taxonomy Rose

All domains of Bloom's taxonomy on a rose chart (from wikipedia)

Digital Learning and Bloom's Taxonomy

An article describing how Bloom's taxonomy applies to tasks done on the internet by students.

Dialogue Journals

Use this format when students read independently to collect research in the computer lab, or for homework assignments, or independent analysis of documents in the classroom. If done digitally, the assignment can be uploaded to www.turnitin.com or some other digital drop box. Change the directions as needed.

6 C's Document Analysis Chart

UCI History Project's 6 C's Document analysis chart for student work. Good for use in computer lab when directing students to an archived collection of photos, etc.; encourages in-depth look rather than browsing.

See Mean Matter Document Analysis Chart

UCLA History Project's document analysis chart for student work.

Observe, Collect, Reflect Tool

Library of Congress tool for analyzing documents in class. A teacher's instruction guide for using this, and sample lessons, can be found at the Library of Congress web site, along with other teacher materials.

General Dialogue Journal (Blank)

 

Data Analysis Dialogue Journals (DRAFT)

A short report summarizing results of student performance in one TIIP team teacher's classroom(s).

Quick Start Guide: Dialogue Journals

Handout from 30 April 2011 TIIP meeting: directions for scaffolding dialogue journals so that the skill is improved over the course of a semester/year.

Quick Start Guide: Picturing the Past

Handout from 30 April 2011 TIIP meeting that helps teachers scaffold 4-square charts over the course of a semester/year. Use this in conjunction with the 4-square chart handout also found in this portfolio.

SOAPS/AP History presentation

Will Gow's PowerPoint presentation using SOAPS vocabulary to address using documents in an A.P. History class.

Bloom's taxonomy and student self-evaluation

tool for classroom use: students rate the lesson on Bloom's affective and cognitive scales.

Dialogue Journal Data

Final report on year one of dialogue journal technique.

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CCSS presentation

Powerpoint presentation given at 2013 California Council for the Social Studies conference in Burlingame, California. Includes data collected as part of the TIIP grant.

With Different Eyes Conference 2012

Powerpoint that accompanied presentation