Help me give my students the ability to learn U.S. History via online activities that push students to think critically through Nystrom Atlas's many maps, photos, and graphs as they interpret information from multiple sources.
The students in my room come from a diverse urban community known for its long standing traditions of being involved in the education of children. The school is not just filled with curious students eager to learn and skilled teachers excited to provide challenging learning opportunities, it also bustles with parents, friends, and neighbors who believe in the philosophy that investing in students is the whole community's job.
My students bring an array of life experiences and are tasked with discovering how they can be positive contributing members of a caring and concerned community.
Thus, it is important for my students to always expand their understandings outside of their own world and begin to experience, examine, and grow from multiple perspectives. My students can make the most positive impact when they are challenged to think beyond their own experiences and unpack U.S. History in a way that requires them to make current world connections.
My Project
This project will allow my students to continue learning their United States History given our Distance Learning journey amid the Covid-19 school closure we have experienced. This period really requires that curriculum become more engaging as learning is online and more independent.
Students will use this online curriculum to advance their critical thinking skills by using the atlas's many maps, photos, and graphs.
Students will be able to read from primary sources and complete assignments using the an interactive atlas and electronic version of the student activity book. This resource will also be used in the classroom once we are back to regular face-to-face instruction.
This curriculum is a strong visual compliment to any school textbook. Students will learn historical events through a cause and effect lens as they as they work through ten chronological units within the atlas. This visual and text rich resource builds upon recurring themes and requires students find, organize, and synthesize evidence and understand historical events and trends.
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