From: National Reading Initiative Discussion - Sarah Rider
To: Joe Bellacero
Sent: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:01 am
Subject: Live Social Studies Resources from the National Reading Initiative's Babson Summer Institute: Expanding Our Offerings: Reading, Writing and Content Area Teachers
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Greetings from Babson!
I'm writing from the Summer Institute at Babson, Mass., where thirty-two
teachers from eight different writing project sites are working on developing
and expanding their offerings for content area teachers. During the institute
we had the opportunity to work with panelist Diane Giorgia history teacher from
the New York City Writing Project. Diane presented a plan for working with
multiple texts from multiple points of view, in order to foster the kinds of
thinking in the history classroom that historians actually do in the world.
What follows is a list of incredible resources that Diane has collected, along
with her useful descriptions.
Thank you Diane! Enjoy!
Here are some URLs that might be useful. I look forward to sharing additional
resources in the future.
http://www.oit.nycenet.edu/instruction/socialstudies/ -- mega-site for social
studies resources, created by a team from Region 4, Queens, NY. Although Region
4 no longer exist as an entity, the site has been resurrected and made available
by the NYC DoE Office of Instructional Technology. You'll find links to K-12
pacing calendars (ugh!) that conform to the NYS social studies curriculum, with
a gazillion links to related documents. There are also many other links to
explore. In particular, check out the Gilder Lehrman site for primary source
documents in U.S. History
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/social.html -- main page of NYSED, Office of
Social Studies; contains links to information, assessments (including State
assessments and Regents exams) publications (including Social Studies Resource
Guide with Core Curriculum) and other resources, including social studies
standards
http://www.facinghistory.org/home -- curricular support, resources, professional
development. Contains materials on several topics, including the Holocaust,
9/11, eugenics movement, Armenian genocide, and immigration
http://nchs.ucl
a.edu/standards/ -- resources from the National Center for
History in the Schools at UCLA. Contains learning and historical thinking
standards for US and World History, teaching units
http://www.history.ilstu.edu/tahg/home.html -- resources from the National
History Project at Illinois State University. Contains materials for teaching
U.S. history, analysis guides, and materials on historical thinking, based on
Sam Wineburg's research
http://www.readingquest.org/home.html -- reading and comprehension strategies,
frameworks, and resources for teaching social studies
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ -- eyewitness accounts of a wide range of
historical events. It's the site that launched my workshop on Guernica.
