April+1+Agenda

=Agenda= Our goal for the day's work: Complete the list of themes for our curriculum (aligned to ICC) and map them out over the grade levels. Next Step: Write Van Meter benchmarks that distinguish student learning at each grade.

8:15am - Review the Curriculum Revision Process, goals for today, and expectations 8:30am - What do we believe about Social Studies Curriculum? We believe social studies is an integrated study that should teach kids: Review the ICC opening statement 9:00am - Generate the Big Questions Look at list of themes from our previous work - add ideas Create essential questions from the big ideas that we generated.
 * 1) appreciation for other cultures
 * 2) privileges and responsibilities of being an American citizen
 * 3) multiple perspectives to an event or an idea
 * 4) how history impacts/influences the future
 * 5) to learn about themselves
 * Theme || Example of a Big Question ||
 * Famous People in history || What makes a person famous? ||
 * Trends in history || What determines the start and end of an civilization, era, time period, or age? ||
 * Religion || What role have religions played throughout history? ||
 * Behavior of people, leadership, culture || How does change occur? ||
 * Geography || What are the importances of natural resources? ||
 * geography, migration || Why do things move? ||
 * Behavior of people, conflict || What defines a friend, peer, ally, enemy ||
 * || Why does conflict exist? ||
 * || What groups am I part of? What makes groups unique? ||
 * || How are regions different? ||
 * || Why do governments form? expand? collapse? ||
 * || Why do people migrate? ||
 * || How do groups influence other groups and individual behavior? ||
 * || Why do religions exist? ||
 * || What factors can change a way of thinking? ||
 * || What are the forms of government? What roles do citizens play in different types of governments? ||
 * || What influences government? ||
 * || What things impact economies? ||
 * || How do people engage in conflict? ||
 * || How are conflicts resolved? ||
 * || How do other countries and cultures impact us? ||
 * || What is culture? ||
 * || How do religions differ? ||
 * || How do religions differ? ||

LUNCH 12:30pm - Look at the Iowa Core to see what Big Questions may be missing

2:30pm - Determine how the Big Questions fall over grade spans in alignment with the Iowa Core