April Special Edition: Social Studies Update

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April 2023 Special Edition

 

K-12 Social Studies

 

ACADEMIC STANDARDS

 

Check Out the Following FREE
Professional Development Opportunities for
 Social Studies Educators!

 

Click Here to Access Registration & Application for Both

 

Holocaust History Project

 

North Carolina History Unfolded Fellows Project

 

The NCDPI K-12 Social Studies team is collaborating with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in a pilot project designed specifically for North Carolina. The project will be named the North Carolina History Unfolded Fellows Project. Three organizations will partner with the NCDPI by lending professional expertise for the planning, delivery, and support of this project: 

  • The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Mr. David Klevan the Education Outreach Specialist for Education Initiatives.
  • The North Carolina Council on the Holocaust - Mr. Lee Holder the Traveling Exhibit Coordinator for Eastern NC.
  • The North Carolina State Archives - Ms. Brooke Csuka, Outreach Archivist

The teachers selected as fellows for this project will go through the History Unfolded Program’s training with staff from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They will also receive training from North Carolina State Archives experts. The training will prepare and equip each teacher fellow to be able to develop a comprehensive lesson plan that can be used by teachers teaching Grade Eight N.C. Social Studies, American History, or Civic Literacy.

 

The desired outcome of this project is to develop a repository of NC news stories and classroom instructional materials for teaching Holocaust topics using newspaper stories from the era. This project hopes to strengthen the primary sources available to teachers seeking to teach North Carolina state and local stories connected to the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors and refugees, from 1933 to 1946.  

 

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World History PD

 

Two PD Webinars: The Maroons of Jamaica and Afro Cubans

 

Add to your toolbox of World History topics for teaching about groups significant to the history of indigenous and diasporic peoples of the Greater Antilles region in the Americas.


Each webinar presentation will align with the following NC World History objectives:

  • WH.B.2.1 Explain how shared values and beliefs of a culture impact national, tribal, and group identity, now and in the past.
  • WH.C&G.1.3 Compare various revolutions, rebellions, and movements in terms of motive, consequence, and lasting impact on the freedom and equality of individuals and groups in society.
  • WH.C&G.1.4 Compare ways racial, ethnic, and religious groups around the world have demonstrated resistance and resilience to inequities, injustice, and restriction of freedoms, now and in the past.
  • WH.H.1.4 Distinguish the challenges indigenous peoples and ethnic and tribal groups around the world have experienced as a result of colonization, imperialism, and assimilation, now and in the past.

Each webinar will take participants through a ready-made lesson.  Each lesson will…

  • Model classroom pedagogy for teaching these two topics.
  • Engage participants in interactive activities.
  • Use and share primary sources specific to the teaching of Afro-Cubans and the Maroons of Jamaica
  • Share a Google folder of teaching resources for each topic and two ready-to-teach mini lessons.

**A CEU Contact Hours Certificate Will Be Awarded to All Who Attend

 

 

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