Elementary Webinar Series: What do the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies look like in practice?
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has partnered with organizations across Kentucky to showcase what a social studies learning experience aligned to the KAS for Social Studies looks like in practice. This webinar series is designed to deepen participants’ social studies content knowledge and pedagogy. Four webinars with an elementary focus will be featured this spring.
In these presentations, representatives from the KDE will support teachers in breaking down a disciplinary strand standard. Then, a partner educational organization will engage participants in a sample learning experience using resources from their organization. These learning experiences are designed for participants’ use in their own classrooms with their students. Following each webinar, a recording of the presentation, along with the PowerPoint slides and any related instructional resources, will be published on our Social Studies Elementary Webinar Series webpage on KYstandards.org.
Interested in a preview of what these webinars will be like? Access this pre-recorded Grade 1 example. In this example, representatives from the KDE and the Kentucky Historical Society guide viewers through a learning experience where students see how a home in Kentucky has changed over time.
The webinars are scheduled for:
- April 17 at 5:00 p.m. ET: Grade 1 Kentucky History Focus with the Kentucky Historical Society (example two)
- April 24 at 5:00 p.m. ET: Grade 3 Kentucky Economics Focus with the Belle of Louisville
- May 1 at 5:00 p.m. ET: Kindergarten Economics Focus with the St. Louis Federal Reserve
Complete this Google Form to register to attend, and you will receive a Teams meeting invitation and link.
ICMYI: Support students’ reading and writing in all content areas with Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines
How might we meaningfully connect reading and writing as complementary subjects across the curriculum?
Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines includes 40 text-based writing tasks that engage K-12 students in responding to a variety of texts as disciplinary experts do. See the Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines website for samples in:
- Writing to Learn,
- Writing to Demonstrate Learning and
- Writing for Publication.
This resource supports implementation of the Kentucky Academic Standards to show how reading and writing fit authentically into content areas from kindergarten to grade 12. Samples are available for:
- Reading and writing,
- Mathematics,
- Social studies,
- Science and
- Visual/performing arts.
The Writing for Publication resources can be found on the Text-Based Writing Across Disciplines webpage.
With questions about this resource, please contact ELATeam@education.ky.gov.
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