Solving the Maize | Big History Project | Celebrating 10 Years of OER Project OER Project 2022-08-01 | Big History teaches us that the more complex something is, the more fragile it becomes. The COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine have revealed just how complex—and fragile—our global food systems are. This complexity is the product of a long history of how humans learned to feed themselves. To understand that history, and to search for answers to the challenges we face today and will encounter tomorrow, we’ll examine the Big History of a single grain. Maize was an agent of complexity in the Americas, and when colonizers spread it to new places, it launched global transformations. Today, we use it for everything, and it has become a cornerstone of our global food systems. Maize could also help us with the challenges we might face in the future, as we strive to combat the impacts of climate change.Like what you see? This video is part of a comprehensive social studies curriculum from OER Project, a family of free, online social studies courses. OER Project aims to empower teachers by offering free and fully supported social studies courses for middle- and high-school students. Your account is the key to accessing our standards-aligned courses that are designed with built-in supports like leveled readings, audio recordings of texts, video transcripts, and more. Register today at oerproject.com!Website: oerproject.com/Big-History Facebook: facebook.com/OERProject Pinterest: pinterest.com/oerproject
Unit 9 Overview | World History Project AP® OER Project 2022-08-23 | The world has changed a lot since 1200. Trends such as increasing political rights, interconnected global economic systems, and new technologies have enabled faster and more sustained communication. But while these revolutions have created vast wealth and opportunity for some, they have produced only limited change for others, and caused great suffering for many. The increased interconnectedness of the world allows us to identify the similarities we share, but it also reveals the dangers of the inequalities that divide us.Like what you see? This video is part of a comprehensive social studies curriculum from OER Project, a family of free, online social studies courses. OER Project aims to empower teachers by offering free and fully supported social studies courses for middle- and high-school students. Your account is the key to accessing our standards-aligned courses that are designed with built-in supports like leveled readings, audio recordings of texts, video transcripts, and more. Register today at oerproject.com!Website: oerproject.com/AP-World-History Facebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/oerproject
Unit 8 Overview | World History Project AP® OER Project 2022-08-23 | Two conflicts dominated the latter half of the twentieth century: decolonization and the Cold War. Two superpowers emerged from the destruction of World War II: the US and Soviet Union. They each sought influence around the world during the ideological conflict known as the Cold War. Meanwhile, colonized peoples everywhere fought for their independence. The US and Soviet Union wanted allies and influence among newly independent states. Often, both superpowers supported different factions, resulting in several “hot” wars in the decolonizing world. The battle of Cuito Cuanavale is one example of the linkages between the Cold War and decolonization.Like what you see? This video is part of a comprehensive social studies curriculum from OER Project, a family of free, online social studies courses. OER Project aims to empower teachers by offering free and fully supported social studies courses for middle- and high-school students. Your account is the key to accessing our standards-aligned courses that are designed with built-in supports like leveled readings, audio recordings of texts, video transcripts, and more. Register today at oerproject.com!Website: oerproject.com/AP-World-History Facebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/oerproject
Unit 7 Overview | World History Project AP® OER Project 2022-08-23 | The first half of the twentieth century featured a 30-year period of global conflict, including two world wars, from 1914 to 1918 and from 1939 to 1945. Nations around the world battled each other and dragged their citizens, colonies, and economies into two total wars. How did this happen and what did governments do to try and stop these conflicts from happening again? How did the failures of internationalism after the First World War result in a second, more devastating world war? Those are the big questions that we seek to answer in this video.Like what you see? This video is part of a comprehensive social studies curriculum from OER Project, a family of free, online social studies courses. OER Project aims to empower teachers by offering free and fully supported social studies courses for middle- and high-school students. Your account is the key to accessing our standards-aligned courses that are designed with built-in supports like leveled readings, audio recordings of texts, video transcripts, and more. Register today at oerproject.com!Website: oerproject.com/AP-World-History Facebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/oerproject
Unit 5 Overview | World History Project AP® OER Project 2022-08-23 | This video focuses on revolutions from 1750 to 1900 including the political and industrial revolutions that swept across the world in the long nineteenth century. These revolutions transformed human life, leading to dramatic changes across all the AP® themes. New types of constitutional governments were formed and new economic systems like socialism and communism grew in popularity. As economies changed, new social classes emerged. And as new technologies allowed more people to travel, cultural practices were exchanged across borders. The use of fossil fuels to power new technologies also impacted the environment in negative ways.Like what you see? This video is part of a comprehensive social studies curriculum from OER Project, a family of free, online social studies courses. OER Project aims to empower teachers by offering free and fully supported social studies courses for middle- and high-school students. Your account is the key to accessing our standards-aligned courses that are designed with built-in supports like leveled readings, audio recordings of texts, video transcripts, and more. Register today at oerproject.com!Website: oerproject.com/AP-World-History Facebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/oerproject
Unit 6 Overview | World History Project AP® OER Project 2022-08-23 | Industrialization had positive and negative consequences for different people. In industrialized nations, new forms of transportation, communication, and products made life easier for some. The wealthy and middle class saw their lives improved. These improvements often came at the expense of the working class. Industrialization motivated empires to find raw materials to fuel their factories. They used the tools provided by industrialization to seize control of resource-rich colonies abroad. This “new imperialism” saw industrialized nations establish colonial governments around the world, oppressing colonized people and extracting natural resources.Like what you see? This video is part of a comprehensive social studies curriculum from OER Project, a family of free, online social studies courses. OER Project aims to empower teachers by offering free and fully supported social studies courses for middle- and high-school students. Your account is the key to accessing our standards-aligned courses that are designed with built-in supports like leveled readings, audio recordings of texts, video transcripts, and more. Register today at oerproject.com!Website: oerproject.com/AP-World-History Facebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/oerproject
Assessing Historical Thinking with One Big Question - Crissy Calera OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Assessing Historical ThinkingIn a world with so much information right at our fingertips, how are young people meant to discern between fact and fiction? This talk gives a good jumping off point: by asking young people to challenge information with the question “How do we know what we know?” By encouraging students to engage with truths in a critical way, we are empowering them to be independent thinkers who get to the root of what can and can’t be trusted.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Six Steps for Crafting Inquiry-Based Pedagogy - Beth Krasemann OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Crafting InquiryAlthough she has taught for 25 years, for educator Beth Krasemann, the last decade stands out. Why? A focus on inquiry. An inquiry-based learning approach in the history classroom promotes the fundamental understanding that history is complicated, nuanced, and sometimes chaotic—and fascinating. In this talk, Beth describes the six-step process she uses to structure her inquiry-based pedagogy and curriculum, using the example of an inquiry that asks why Germany democratically elected Hitler into office. For more of Beth’s work on inquiry, check out her book Teaching the Holocaust by Inquiry (http://www.holocaustbyinquiry.com)OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
LET THE SUN SHINE IN: Expanding literacy through Auditory and Visual learning - Joe Adragna OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: LiteracyEducators have long seen literacy as synonymous with reading literacy; however, visual and auditory sources can be just as valid and educational as textual sources. When used together, these sources can be powerful tools in helping our students expand their literacy skills (and, in turn, their learning). In this track talk, educator Joe Adragna discusses the use of the documentary “Summer of Soul (or How The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) in order to expand student understanding that goes beyond “just text”.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Were Still Here: Seeing the Present to Unlock the Past - Jerad Koepp OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Bringing Context to World EventsLessons from desettling and decolonizing practices provide strategies, awareness, and visibility to connect the past to the present and beyond.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Cultivating Empathy through PBL - Mike Kaechele OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Bringing Context to World EventsOur country has become increasingly more divided. Here are four ways the project-based learning framework facilitates teaching global, multicultural perspectives to increase the social-emotional learning skill of social awareness.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
A Shared History of Many Stories: Learning History through Multiple Perspectives - Amy Dolezal OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Assessing Historical ThinkingIn this track talk, Amy Dolezal explore various ways elementary teachers can use the community around them to help students explore history and investigate the multiple perspectives that are often overlooked in textbooks. By using an inquiry-based model, teachers can assess students’ historical thinking and introduce students to untold stories from our local communities.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Being Curious and Implementing Inquiry - Kim Heckart OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Crafting InquiryImplementing inquiry in the elementary classroom is focused on ideas on how to inspire students' curiosity and promote questioning. Fostering an "I wonder" mindset leads to a deep dive into a social studies inquiry while targeting specific content and standards.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Making Social Studies Primary in the Classroom: Inquiry Design and Student Engagement - Erica Croft OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Crafting InquiryFirst-grade teacher Erica Croft outlines the importance of social studies education in the K–3 classroom and gives some pointers on how it can be done in order to increase student engagement and excitement. Are you new to the Inquiry Design Model? This video gives some simple ideas for getting started and allays common teacher concerns.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
A History Chase on Postwar America: Primary and Secondary Sources - Rod Franchi OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Assessing Historical ThinkingIn this talk, Rod Franchi discusses how teachers can prepare students to be historians in training and how teachers can assess students’ sourcing skills by using engaging—and sometimes jaw-dropping—sources. Learn how you can create your own History Chase and help your students sharpen their historical thinking skills.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
What do historians know about sources that educators miss? - Heather Nice OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Assessing Historical Thinking Heather Nice presents five rules to help educators embrace an approach to sources that better reflects historical disciplinary practice. These rules encourage educators to examine the nature of sources, embrace fluidity in the terms “primary” and “secondary,” define sources in relation to the question, reconsider primary sources as the “gold standard,” and teach students to critique their textbooks. The goal? To increase inquiry, historical thinking, and disciplinary practice in the classroom.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Taking the Plunge: A Journey into the World of Inquiry-Based Learning - Charles Rushworth OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Crafting InquiryThis talk will look at some practical strategies that teachers can use to implement inquiry-based learning in their classrooms in order to improve their students’ historical research skills. It will address how inquiry-based learning can lead to improved student outcomes and give them the skills to create in-depth research questions and the confidence to present their findings to an audience. Hopefully, it will also encourage teachers to incorporate inquiry-based learning into their teaching practices.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Literacy: The Most Important Metaphor - John Mason OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: LiteracyPeople understand and think about the world through metaphors: Time is money. You’re living on borrowed time. You need to budget your time more effectively. The metaphors that we use to understand, think, and teach literacy are not only worthy of consideration but critical to every aspect of our classrooms. Taking time to recognize and reflect upon this phenomenon gets not only gets to the foundation of pedagogy but can transform everything in the classroom.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Action Civics: Taking Action by Engaging Students in State Government - Joshua Parker & Brett Hansen OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Taking Informed ActionIn a time where many believe as citizens they are unable to influence government, it is important to empower citizens with tools for engaging with their state government and to be part of the legislative process. In this track talk, Josh Parker and Brett Hansen explain how TVW’s Capitol Classroom program provides WA teachers a free opportunity to connect their social studies classrooms with working lobbyists in Olympia. Together they advocate on actual bills during the legislative session. Josh and Brett describe many of the takeaways from Capitol Classroom over the years and offer a framework on how you might employ similar learning opportunities into your classroom.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Making Contextualization Accessible - Anne Koschmider OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Assessing Historical ThinkingContextualization is a rigorous, complex historical thinking process. However, with the right pedagogical approach, it is absolutely doable for students. In this video, Anne Koschmider will outline some student-friendly introduction activities to make the skill feel accessible, along with methods for sustainable practice throughout the school year. These activities will help students learn to see connections between historical events, develop cohesive historical narratives, and avoid the perils of presentism. OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Engaging Students in Difficult Conversations - Ammerah Saidi OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Bringing Context to World EventsHow do we engage our students to critically tackle heavy social and global issues without imposing our own beliefs upon them? Ammerah Saidi will discuss a simple classroom practice that has enabled kindergartners and adults alike to collectively analyze and debate tough topics.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Cultivating the Whole-of-Student Growth through Inquiry - Dr. LaMesha Craft OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Crafting Inquiry Dr. Craft discusses the benefits of leading like a gardener in the classroom, fostering emotional intelligence, and improving the “whole-of-student” learning experience through inquiry-based instruction. Like a gardener, teachers can enable growth by cultivating an environment that nurtures curiosity, fosters growth (far beyond any learning outcomes or standards), and sets the conditions to develop our next generation of innovators, change agents, and problem solvers.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Adulting is Powerful - Donnetta Elsasser OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Taking Informed Action It is common for students to feel anxious when they have to advocate for themselves in every-day situations. Forget about trying to influence decision-makers in government. Some students feel like what they have to say won’t make a difference. Many just don’t know what to say, or how to go about it. Students need experiences throughout middle school and high school where they can practice the skills they will need to navigate the adult world. They need to learn the personal power of “adulting”. This presentation will give viewers access to a stellar project as well as easy to incorporate tips for existing curriculum.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Teaching historiography in middle and early high school: Easier than you think! - Jillian Turner OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Assessing Historical ThinkingHistory has a history; it's a changing, living, contested discipline. This is something we’re all familiar with as educators, but we tend to leave explicit discussion of this out of our classrooms until students reach the final years of high school. In this talk, Jillian Turner shares three strategies for introducing students 12 years and older to the ideas and language of historiography so that they can develop the skills to engage with public debate about the histories that are important to them.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Swimming in the Inquiry Pool: From the Shallow End to the Deep End - Hayden Brown OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Crafting InquiryHistory and Humanities teacher Hayden Brown is passionate about using inquiry as a central focus of his teaching. In this talk, he will describe different approaches to project-based learning and how you can decide what will work best for all your students. Whether you are new to inquiry or just want a fresh approach, Hayden will share some best practices and easy tips to make project-based learning work in your classroom no matter students’ needs.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Confronting Antisemitism by Engaging Historical Thinking Skills - Carly Fox OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Assessing Historical ThinkingThis talk offers a four-day lesson plan on effective strategies for teaching about the Age of Anxiety, rise of fascism, WWII, the Holocaust, and antisemitism. Educators will learn how to engage challenging content by emphasizing critical historical thinking skills like contextualization, sourcing, primary source analysis, and continuity and change over time. Significantly, this talk also explores how to help students both recognize and interrupt the ongoing rise of antisemitism and the ways contemporary conspiracy theories often fuel antisemitism. By engaging historical thinking skills, students learn important tools to help them navigate our own age of anxiety and politics of fear.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Unsung Heroes from The Community Project: The Essence of Meaningful Conversations - Barbara Bromley OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Bringing Context to World EventsThis project began as an opportunity for learners to create a TED talk based on an interview with a student selected unsung hero from their community. It would, however, take on a life of its own as the learners went out to interview relatives or community members to uncover the minute details of what shaped and inspired them, what skills they needed, and how they became successful. This series of TED talks proved that ordinary people have personal stories, beliefs, and skills that shouldn’t be forgotten.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Podcasting and Empowering Our Students’ Voices - John Arthur OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Taking Informed ActionIs it really safe to take our masks off in school? To answer this difficult question, John Arthur’s sixth-grade students produced an episode for the podcast City Cast Salt Lake, posing their most pressing COVID-related questions directly to Dr. Angela Dunn, Utah’s state epidemiologist throughout the pandemic. In this video, John Arthur shares the writing assignments, recording tools, and podcasting tips he learned along the way so you can empower your students and civically engage them through podcasting too!OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Beyond The Classroom: The Power of Public History in High School Education - Gregory Garcia OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Taking Informed ActionPush the limits of K-12 instruction with Mr. Garcia's Public History Project. Learn how students take informed action by designing their own historical narrative on a topic of their choice, fabricating their narrative using cutting-edge Makerspace technology, and leaving their own legacy on History through research partnerships with museums across the country. Convert your school into a museum and build life-changing memories for your students with this award winning project!OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Dialogues Supporting Civic Engagement - Taylor Hamblin OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Taking Informed ActionDialogues are a key activity in developing civic engagement, yet they are often misunderstood or done improperly. In this video, the speaker explores how dialogues can be structured in the classroom, how to help students develop their dialogue skills, and how to design postdialogue reflections.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Inquiry Learning for the Individual Learner - Brian Moore OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Crafting InquiryEducators often struggle to find ways to meet the unique learning needs and interests of their students. Inquiry learning makes this possible. Brian Moore will discuss how he incorporates student choice and student feedback throughout the learning process in order to reach each learner. He will share some of his ideas and provide examples of how he brings inquiry learning into his classroom.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Day 1, Session 3 - Live Discussion: Crafting Inquiry OER Project 2022-08-16 | Relive our live, online OER Conference for Social Studies held August 3-4, 2022. We're bringing thousands of teachers from across America together to hear from academics, historians, public thinkers and most importantly, other teachers. Head into the new school year inspired and armed with practical ideas for improving your teaching practice.How we can address diversity, varying student needs, and student interest? Inquiry is an incredible way to boost student engagement and create a student-centered classroom. And for teachers, the shift from “sage on the stage” to “lead learner” can be transformative in their instruction and relationship with their students. And if you’re new to inquiry, don’t sweat it. Part of this discussion is about how to dip your toes into this increasingly relevant and useful teaching practice. This Live Discussion is moderated by Joe Schmidt, Senior Instructional Specialist at the Department of Social Studies, for the New York City Department of Education. Joining Joe for this discussion are Kim Heckart and Dr. LaMesha Craft. OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
School Participatory Budgeting: Case for Student Decision-Making - Tara Lyn Bartlett & Madison Rock OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Taking Informed ActionSchool participatory budgeting (school PB) is a civic learning innovation designed to build student agency, collaboration, and critical thinking through a student-led decision-making process on school budget allocations. Like the municipal model, school PB has been implemented worldwide and has been shown to increase political knowledge, deliberative skills, democratic values, trust in institutions, and electoral and civic engagement. In this talk, the presenters share the history and evolution of school PB, how to implement a school PB process, and the impact of school community-led decision-making in creating pathways for youth to participate in community and civic life for the long term. Impacts of Participatory Budgeting- peoplepowered.org/resources-content/impacts-of-participatory-budgeting-what-we-know Inclusive School Participatory Budgeting Toolkit- arizonafuture.org/media/qgljggpw/cfa_inclusive_spb_toolkit_2020.pdf School Participatory Budgeting FAQs- https://spa.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-10/25_spb_faq_october2021.pdf OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Building Engagement through Interdisciplinary Planning - Oliver Chase OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Taking Informed ActionThrough interdisciplinary approaches, we can better equip students with the tools and skills to tackle complexity. This is more important than ever because we live in a complicated world with complicated problems that require people to draw on different subjects at the same time. Centering planning around current issues and connecting them in a meaningful way to students' lives will naturally pull you toward interdisciplinary work as a means of preparing and empowering students to engage in complex problems. Regardless of scale, you can help students engage in their communities, offer opportunities to different learning styles, and help build resilience in the face of adversity.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Making Students Leaders in the Fight Against Misinformation - Liz Crouse and Shawn Lee OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Bringing Context to World EventsMisinformation has reached crisis levels in our nation. It is imperative that we support students in their fight against misinformation. In this talk, we will discuss the strategies to help teachers and students fight the good fight. OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
How do we help students scale to take in global, multicultural perspectives? - Taihisha Crockett OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Bringing Context to World EventsThis talk is designed to share a few key ideas on how to best teach global and multicultural perspectives to students on any grade level, through interactive and tactile activities that can be used throughout the year.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Noisy Literacy - Hajra Saeed OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: LiteracyLiteracy is a noisy process that involves students actively reading, talking, and moving. It’s a process where students have agency to negotiate for understanding of whatever text they’re reading. This talk includes strategies to get students to move the process of literacy out of their heads and into a shared learning space.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Making Sense of the World: Importance of Literacy in Social Studies - Patricia Shelton OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: LiteracyDescription In this talk, Patricia Shelton explores some options for incorporating reading instruction into social studies courses. Social studies courses are loaded with images, documents, maps, graphs, and other resources that require literacy skills to unpack and assign meaning. Without focused document-specific reading skills practice, especially at the secondary level, students may experience confusion and frustration while trying to understand the meaning of a source. Because of the diversity of student populations today, supporting students’ reading needs in social studies courses is of the utmost importance.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Thinking Beyond the History Course - Peter Lapre OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Taking Informed ActionHistorical thinking has reframed the way we teach history classes, but what about other social studies courses like economics, government, and even electives? This talk outlines an approach to center all of your classes in thinking skills. It explains what it means to know how to do something and why that is necessary to help your students take informed action in their lives. You will hear specific examples of this recentering in three different courses, including potential culminating projects, and leave with the guiding principles to apply such shifts to your own courses.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Day 2, Session 3 - Live Discussion: Taking Informed Action OER Project 2022-08-16 | Relive our live, online OER Conference for Social Studies held August 3-4, 2022. We're bringing thousands of teachers from across America together to hear from academics, historians, public thinkers and most importantly, other teachers. Head into the new school year inspired and armed with practical ideas for improving your teaching practice.Media literacy, the levers of power, and interdisciplinarity are all central factors to making history not just useful but usable for students. It’s a tall order, but we’ve got just the people to get us thinking about this in a useful and usable way.Our moderator for this Live Discussion is Tammy Waller. She is the Director of State Programs at iCivics – an amazing program that was designed by retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Conner in 2009. Tammy has previously served as the Director of K-12 Social Studies and World Languages at the Arizona Department of Education. Joining Tammy for this discussion are John Arthur and Tara Lyn Bartlett.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Using Inquiry to Increase Engagement: From Theory to Practice - Mike Skomba OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Crafting InquiryWhen a classroom strikes the right balance of skill-building and question-asking, historical inquiry drives high levels of student engagement. This talk discusses the theory behind the best practices around being a Lead Learner who builds skills and electrifies questions.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
You Should Be Teaching Climate Change in Your Social Studies Classroom - Molly Sinnott OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: Bringing Context to World Events Description Climate change is THE problem of our students' generation, and they are ready and waiting for the information and tools to take it on. But climate change is not just a science issue, it's a policy, social, and economic challenge as well. The solutions needed to take on climate change combine exactly the kind of civic engagement, career development, and governmental understanding that social studies brings to young people. You can use your expertise as a social studies teacher to equip students with the information necessary to take meaningful action.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Day 1, Session 5 - Keynote: Kathy Swan OER Project 2022-08-16 | Relive our live, online OER Conference for Social Studies held August 3-4, 2022. We're bringing thousands of teachers from across America together to hear from academics, historians, public thinkers and most importantly, other teachers. Head into the new school year inspired and armed with practical ideas for improving your teaching practice.Kathy Swan is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Swan served as the project director and lead writer of the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), the national standards for social studies. She has co-written a number of best-selling books, including Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education: The Inquiry Design Model (2017); The Inquiry Design Model: Building Inquiries in Social Studies (2018); and Blueprinting an Inquiry-Based Curriculum: Planning with the Inquiry Design Model (2019). OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Day 2, Session 1 - Live Discussion: Bringing Context to World Events OER Project 2022-08-16 | Relive our live, online OER Conference for Social Studies held August 3-4, 2022. We're bringing thousands of teachers from across America together to hear from academics, historians, public thinkers and most importantly, other teachers. Head into the new school year inspired and armed with practical ideas for improving your teaching practice.Led by two of the preeminent leaders in Native education in the US, this session will look at how contemporary Native education grapples with current events and the pressures on teachers to steer away from culturally relevant topics in the classroom. How do we ensure that Tribal people are seen not just in the past, but in the present? What implications do these approaches have for culturally relevant teaching in general?Joining Jerry for this discussion are Jerad Koepp, Native Student Program Specialist and Washington State Teacher of the year, along with Edwin Schupman, Manager, Native Knowledge 360 at National Museum of the American Indian.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Day 1, Session 2 - Live Discussion: Assessing Historical Thinking OER Project 2022-08-16 | Relive our live, online OER Conference for Social Studies held August 3-4, 2022. We're bringing thousands of teachers from across America together to hear from academics, historians, public thinkers and most importantly, other teachers. Head into the new school year inspired and armed with practical ideas for improving your teaching practice.Learning historical thinking skills in tandem with content is difficult for most students. They must learn to contextualize the multiple perspectives of historical narratives, source their claims, and grapple with causes and consequences – all without falling prey to presentism. Join us as we discuss strategies to teach and assess your students’ historical thinking practices.Our moderator for this discussion is Ebony McKiver, Social Studies Education Specialist for the Nebraska Department of Education. Joining Ebony for this discussion are Anne Koschmider and Carly Fox. OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Changing the Medium, Not the Message - Christina Cawdery OER Project 2022-08-16 | Track Talk: LiteracyMedia literacy is a popular topic among many teachers, but some fear that teaching media literacy means turning away from traditional print texts. In her talk, Christina Cawdery discusses how we can see media literacy and print texts in a “both/and” mindset to build deep connections while also being more culturally relevant and responsive.OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Day 1, Session 4 - Live Discussion: Literacy OER Project 2022-08-16 | Relive our live, online OER Conference for Social Studies held August 3-4, 2022. We're bringing thousands of teachers from across America together to hear from academics, historians, public thinkers and most importantly, other teachers. Head into the new school year inspired and armed with practical ideas for improving your teaching practice.Our moderator for this discussion is Annette O'Boyce. Joining Annette for this discussion are Hajra Saeed and Christina Cawdery. OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Day 2, Session 2 - Keynote: Dr. Danielle Allen in conversation with Angela Williams-Pitkonen OER Project 2022-08-16 | Relive our live, online OER Conference for Social Studies held August 3-4, 2022. We're bringing thousands of teachers from across America together to hear from academics, historians, public thinkers and most importantly, other teachers. Head into the new school year inspired and armed with practical ideas for improving your teaching practice.Dr. Danielle Allen is a professor of public policy, politics, and ethics at Harvard University, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and James Bryant Conant University Professor, one of Harvard’s highest honors. She is also a seasoned nonprofit leader, democracy advocate, national voice on pandemic response, distinguished author, and mom. Her work to make the world better for young people has taken her from teaching college and leading a $60 million university division to driving change at the helm of a $6 billion foundation; writing for The Washington Post; advocating for cannabis legalization, democracy reform, and civic education; and, most recently, to running for governor of Massachusetts. OER Conference for Social Studies 2022: community.oerproject.com/events/oc-for-social-studies-2022Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Twitter: twitter.com/OERProject
Get to Know OER Project | Celebrating 10 Years of OER Project OER Project 2022-08-01 | Students and teachers love the OER Project—a family of free, online social studies courses. OER Project aims to empower teachers by offering free and fully supported social studies courses for middle- and high-school students. Your account is the key to accessing our standards-aligned courses that are designed with built-in supports like leveled readings, audio recordings of texts, video transcripts, and more. Register today at oerproject.com! Website: oerproject.comFacebook: facebook.com/OERProject Pinterest: pinterest.com/oerproject
