WSocial Studies Department Meeting Agenda

2/29/18

1. Technology Integration
● Current Level of Technology Integration (how do you currently use chromebooks in your
classroom?)

icivics.org review games

Working on papers, projects, activities, etc. then share

Google Classroom (some)

● Examples
○ BIE Project Search
● Concerns regarding technology integration:
Concern Solution/Compromise

Won’t bring chromebooks to class.

Everyone has...but no one brings them

Battery Management Issues

● Is there any specialized technology PD you feel would be beneficial to the Social Studies Dept.?
Project-based learning workshop
2. Project Based Learning
● What is Project Based Learning
○ Reinventing a Public High School: A Case Study in Integrating Problem-Based Learning
○ Video: High School Teachers Meet the Challenges of PBL Implementation
● Examples/Resources - ready-made activities Big and Small
○ Best Examples!!!!
■ Sammamish HS PBL Archives: Social Studies
○ Big - BIE Buck Institute
● Concerns Regarding Project Based Learning
Concern Solution/Compromise

● How do I evaluate
○ Rubistar - select from dropdown menus to generate a rubric
○ Quick Rubric - type your own

● What Questions do you have for Administrators regarding PBL and Technology Integration?

Question Answer

● Regarding Technology Integration and PBL what is your goal between now and the end of the year?
What Are you willing to try?

3. Profile of a Virginia Graduate

○ Profile of a Virginia Graduate
○ Standards of Accreditation
○ In preparing students to meet the Profile of a Virginia Graduate, schools are required to ensure that
students develop the following competencies known as the “Five C’s”:
■ Critical thinking

■ Creative thinking
■ Communication
■ Collaboration
■ Citizenship
Student Examples of PBL: High School (Ninth – Twelfth Grades)
What if Upton Sinclair never
wrote The Jungle?
Video by a history student
What should 5th graders know
about the Constitution?
Shyann published an online book to
teach kids about the U.S.
Constitution
Convince others to settle in
your colony.
Read a blog post and watch a video
about colonizing Georgia by a 9th
grader
Books to Films
Students write, act, direct, produce,
and screen adaptations of short
stories
What can we teach others
through infographics?
Student submit proposals and
choose a graphic design tool to
create infographics
What should we teach the
public about blood?
Murals created by high schools for
the San Diego Blood Bank
Westside Wired
School news website completely
produced by students
What amount of meat should
be served in the dining hall to
achieve the lowest cost?
Video by calculus students at
Madeira School
What lessons can be learned
from the Greco-Persian Wars?
Video with hand drawn illustrations
and text
Source: https://www.teachthought.com/project-based-learning/8-things-learned-first-year-teaching-project-based-learning/