Our Blueprint for Success

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Our Blueprint for Success

• Equip educators to prepare students for success
  on the Social Studies TAKS Exam through an
  awareness of
• The Social Studies TEKS
• The Social Studies TAKS objectives
• The critical nature of curriculum,
      instruction, and assessment
• Skills-in-common across disciplines
• The importance of vertical teaming

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A Social Studies Compass Setting Directions for
Success
Data Driven Decisions
Active Learning
Collaboration
Evaluation of Programs
TEKS Based Curriculum
Student Success
TAAS Objectives Across the Grades
Appropriate Staff Development
Well-aligned Assessments
Effective Learning Designs
Relevant Applications
Real World Experiences
Appropriate Strategies
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Social Studies TEKS

• Higher level of critical thinking skills
• Deeper understanding of content
• Major concepts and process skills
• Create and interpret maps and data
• Thematic content assessment
• Analyze, understand, evaluate relationships

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The Relationship Between and Among World
Geography/World History
World History
World Geography
Problem-solving and Decision-making Historical
Concepts Compare relationships between
contemporary countries
Citizenship Geography of places processes of
spatial exchange Processes of spatial exchange

• Common to All Objectives
• Geographic influences on
• historical issues and events
• Economic and social influences
• on historical issues and events
• Political influences on
• historical issues and events
• Critical-Thinking

Historic Issues and Events
World TAKS Objectives
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Two Old Worlds Become NEW
Columbian Exchange

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MindstreamingStimulate Background Knowledge

• Student partners stand
• Everything he knows or think he knows about what
  foods originated in the Old World - New World
• Partners discuss foods
• Teacher lists foods
• Class discusses

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For Pizzas Sake
Its 2002, but no one has discovered the New
World. You realize, there is no Wendys--fries
havent found the beef! So Whats to eat? You
decide! Your New World or Old World restaurant
is opening soon. You need a menu!
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The Columbian Exchange
Old World Foods New World Foods Cattle Banana
s Onion Chocolate Pecans
Peanuts Pigs Sugarcane Soybeans Wild Rice
Cashew Potatoes Sheep Peaches
Lettuce Peppers Pineapples
Sunflowers Chicken Pears Barley Vanilla
Blueberry Lima Beans Honeybees Olives
Rice Pumpkins Tomatoes String
Beans Wheat Oats Okra Avocados Corn
Kidney Beans Watermelon Oranges Lemons Sweet
Potatoes
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Spreading the WordLanguage Diffusion

• Students investigate the impact of the spread of
  different languages around the world.

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Spreading the WordLanguage Diffusion

• Think-Pair-Share Independently write down every
  foreign word you use.
• Research languages using maps, Internet and
  other sources.
• Create Chart

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Fighting Cholera With Maps

• Students analyze maps to determine the
  sources of the spread of disease.

Make a date
with African and South American partner
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TEKS Tools Trainers Section

• Spatial Exchange

Reflection
Reflect and Apply
World Geography and World History teachers must
teach major concepts in a student centered
environment. Student understanding of the
interaction and spread of language, disease,
food, and popular culture are necessary to
create students understanding.