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Welcome
Hello, I am Teaven Barnum the District Instructional Specialist for Secondary Social Studies. I'm excited to help you in any way that you need. You can reach me at teaven.barnum@killeenisd.org, text at 254-446-2873 or call my desk phone at 254-336-0253.
Meme Intervention Activity
This intervention activity requires students to create memes based on historical concepts chosen by the teacher. When students are able to inject humor into their explanation of historical concepts it shows a deeper understanding. There are many free meme generators that you can use. Click the meme to go to a free meme generator.
Mind Map
This activity requires you to have a group of 10 students or more. The teacher will write down important concepts, facts, dates, or persons on index cards - one per card. The students will stand in a circle, and the teacher will ask one student to volunteer to say and explain their card. The teacher will clarify if necessary. Then, the teacher will ask if anyone has a card that could possibly connect with that first card, and the student will explain their thinking of why they connect. The first and second students will place their cards on the ground in front of them in the circle, and the teacher will use painters tape to connect a line from the first card to the second. This process will continue until all cards are on the ground and connected.
Mandela Effect
This intervention activity is based on the conspiracy theory known as the Mandela Effect. The Mandela Effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event occurred when it did not. The term was originated in 2009 by Fiona Broome after she discovered that she, along with a number of others, believed that Nelson Mandela had died in the 1980s (when he actually died in 2013). This brings about the idea of the multiverse and alternate timelines. Have students take points in history and rewrite them with different outcomes. You can then have students debate how changing one point in history would affect another. A good idea would be to have students create alternate timelines as a visual representation.
STAAR Practice Test (To include new item types)
Please make sure that if you have not already taken the practice test that you do so. This will help give you the perspective the students will have. The test can be found at www.texasassessment.gov
Lowman Product
As you remember, we had Lowman Education come out and present. While we loved their free resources of the frequency charts and the framework, I heard a resounding desire from all of you to purchase more. When looking at what product could give us the biggest bang for our buck, I decided that the warm-ups and the assignments would be the best decision. These products were purchased and a big shout out to Dr. Buckley for pushing it through!
Who can use the products?
Lowman only has their products available for 6th, 7th, 8th and 11th (U.S.) grades.
How do we accesses the products?
Go to LOWMANEDUCATION.COM
CLICK ACCESS PRODUCTS
CREATE ACCOUNT (claim campus)
LOGIN WITH EMAIL AND PASSWORD
DOWNLOAD ANY ITEMS LABELED "OPEN"
Now most of you will already have a login because you created one during Job-alike.
Why should I use the product?
Lowman has created these warmups and assignments based off the frequency of tested TEKS. They also have new question item types. However, these resources are not interactive. For example, students would not actually drag and drop an item on the drag and drop questions. These products are available to you through word and PDF, so they do not have interactive quality. However, they do explicitly explain to the student what question type it is. If you would like to make them interactive, you could take those questions and plug them into Schoology or TFAR. I believe the purpose is the same because we want to focus on the skill of how these new question types are tested.
If you have any questions please let me know.
Global Water Crises PD
On April 4, join Retro Report to examine free resources for teaching about global water issues. This webinar will include videos, lessons and student activities from Retro Report and a presentation from a United Nations water expert. This webinar is conducted with assistance from the United Nations Outreach Division.
When: April 4, 7-8 p.m. ET
Who is this for? Geography, Science and Current Issues educators, but we will share resources in our Environmental Education collection that will also work in Civics & Government and U.S. History classes.
Register: https://bit.ly/RR-WaterWebinar
SOS Instructional Strategy from Discovery Ed
They Said What?
BIG IDEA
Students create logical dialogue among characters within a piece of Discovery Education media to demonstrate an understanding of the content. Students must use supporting evidence from their unit of study to make their inferences.
This strategy requires students to demonstrate understanding of the content by providing context for an image.
STEPS
1. Select an image (with at least two characters) related to your current unit of study.
2. Display the image to students and have them think about what they see, know, and wonder about the image.
3. Explain that they will be inferring what the characters may have said to each other, or thought to themselves, about what was happening.
4. Provide time for students to create and fill in dialogue, or thought bubbles, for the characters in the image.
5. Have students share their work in small groups, looking for similarities and differences.
6. Have each group select what they think is the best dialogue representation and share it with the whole class.
8th Grade Intervention
A Schoology course has been created to help spiral high frequency TEKS and concepts to our 8th grade students. There will be one lesson a week posted in Schoology to be delivered through the intervention period. The goal is for the lesson to last no longer than 20 minutes and be completed without the need of a content expert. If you are interested in helping contribute to this effort, please contact me for more information.
