News to Use in Social Studies!
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Keep Updated in Social Studies at All Levels!
For Teachers
On this link you will find updates for all levels of Social Studies, as well as community exhibits and events for the week of November 16, 2009. This information is in lieu of a district-wide email please be sure to access this site on a weekly basis to stay informed of the many aspects of teaching, technology, workshops, and general information related to Social Studies K-12. If there is something you would like included, please contact me at CassioK@rps205.com. |
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Best Practices in Social Studies
To Improve the Depth of Student Learning
Best practices in Social Studies highlight strategies teachers use to support the Illinois State Learning Goals of political systems, economics, history, geography, and social systems. |
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PERSIA
An Outstanding Graphic Organizer!
PERSIA is a graphic organizer breaks down general knowledge into six broad human concerns and over-arching questions:
Political: Who is in charge?
Economic: How do we make a living?
Religion: What do we believe?
Social: How do we relate to one another?
Intellectual / Arts: How do we learn? How do we express ourselves?
Area / Geography: How does where we live impact how we live?
When students are asked to study a time period in history, they sometimes have difficulty organizing all the seemingly unconnected facts about different people, dates, events, and issues related to that time period. The PERSIA approach is one way to organize how the people lived in a society at a certain time in history and so help students to understand that culture.
By considering in turn different dimensions of a historical period or event, students probe deeply into the many facets and implications of the past..
You can also help students break each broad category down by providing the following specifics:
Political
Structure
War
Treaties
Courts/Laws
Leaders
Popular participation
Loyalty to leader
Economic
State control on trade/industry
Agriculture/Industry importance
Labor systems
Levels of Technology
Levels of International Trade
Gender and Slaves
Money System
Religion
Importance on societal interaction
Holy Books
Beliefs/Teachings
Conversion - role of missionaries
Sin/Salvation
Deities
Social
Family order - patriarchal, matriarchal
Gender Relations - role of women, children
Social Classes - slavery
Entertainment
Life Styles
Intellectual / Arts
Art and Music
Writing/Literature
Philosophy
Math/Science
Education
Inventions
Area / Geography
Location
Physical
Movement
Human/Environment
Need something simpler for younger kids? Go with just the PEGS - Political, Economic, Geographic, Social - and back off a bit on your expectations for specific information.
This graphic organizer comes from this address: http://historytech.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/persia-organizer.pdf |
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