Transcript AlignmentActivities20090209

Practice Aligning
INFOhio and School Library Resources
to
Social Studies K-12
Ohio Academic Content Standards
Alignment Process and Criteria
Using the INFOhio Social Studies Alignment Rubric answer
the following nine questions (available as a handout) for
each indicator considered for alignment to the following:
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Does the clip explicitly address any or all of the content
(nouns) “calendar, time, day, week, month, year”?
Does it explicitly or implicitly address the skill
“measure”?
Does it explicitly or implicitly address the benchmark
to “Use a calendar to determine the day, week, month
and year”?
Alignment Process and Criteria
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What content score would you assign?
What would you assign as the CONTEXT score?
What would you assign as the PRESENTATION
score?
What would you assign as the VIEWPOINT score?
What is your total score for this resource?
Does it meet the alignment requirement of six points
or better?
Grade 5: Government
Benchmark B: Give examples of documents that specify the structure of
state and national governments in the US and explain how these
documents foster self-government in a democracy.
Indicator 3: Explain the significance of the Declaration of Independence
and the US Constitution.
1. What knowledge are we looking for? (Nouns)
2. What skill? (Verbs)
Click to view Video
Declaration of Independence, Chapter 3
http://mediast.infohio.org/flvvideo.php?videoid=348
Alignment Process and Criteria
The title sounded promising. But the content did nothing to
increase the student’s ability to explain the significance of the
Declaration of Independence.
Grade 4 People in Societies
Benchmark B: Explain the reasons people from various cultural groups
came to North America and the consequences of their interactions with
each other.
Indicator 02: Describe the impact of the expansion of European
settlements on American Indians in Ohio.
1. What knowledge are we looking for? (Nouns)
2. What skill? (Verbs)
Use the Rubric and 9 Questions to Answer Using the INFOhio Social
Studies Rubric to evaluate the following:
Click to view Video
Ohio River, Chapter 8 Early Explorers
http://mediast.infohio.org/flvvideo.php?videoid=395
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this video
Grade 2 People in Societies
Benchmark B: Identify ways that different cultures within the United
States and the world have shaped our national heritage.
Indicator 04: Describe the contributions of significant individuals,
including artisans, inventors, scientists, architects, explorers and political
leaders to the cultural heritage of the United States.
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Grade 2
History
Benchmark D: Recognize that the actions of individuals make a difference,
and relate the stories of people from diverse backgrounds who have
contributed to the heritage of the United States.
Indicator 07: Recognize the importance of individual action and character
and explain how they have made a difference in others' lives with emphasis
on the importance of:
* Social and political leaders in the United States (e.g., George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Tecumseh, Harriet Tubman, Abraham
Lincoln, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr.);
* Explorers, inventors and scientists (e.g., George Washington Carver,
Thomas Edison, Charles Drew, Rachel Carson and Neil Armstrong).
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Grade 4
History
Benchmark B: Describe the cultural patterns that are evident in North
America today as a result of exploration, colonization and conflict.
Indicator 03: Explain the causes and effects of the frontier wars of the
1790s, including the Battle of Fallen Timbers, on American Indians in
Ohio and the United States.
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Grade 8 History
Benchmark D: Describe the effects of interactions among civilizations during the
14th through the 18th centuries.
Indicator 02: Describe the political, religious and economic aspects of North
American colonization including:
* Reasons for colonization, including religion, desire for land and economic
opportunity;
* Key differences among the Spanish, French and British colonies;
* Interactions between American Indians and European settlers, including the
agricultural and cultural exchanges, alliances and conflicts;
* Indentured servitude and the introduction and institutionalization of slavery;
* Early representative governments and democratic practices that emerged,
including town meetings and colonial assemblies;
* Conflicts among colonial powers for control of North America.
Grade 2 History
Benchmark A: Use a calendar to determine the day, week, month
and year.
Indicator 01: Measure calendar time by days, weeks, months and
years.
Benchmark A: Use a calendar to determine the day, week, month and
year.
Indicator 02: List the days of the week and months of the year in order.
Use the Rubric and 9 Questions to Answer Using the INFOhio Social Studies
Rubric to evaluate the following:
Click to view Video
The Calendar: How to Use It
http://mediast.infohio.org/flvvideo.php?videoid=31
Grade 8
History
Benchmark G: Analyze the causes and consequences of the American Civil
War.
Indicator 08: Civil War and Reconstruction /
Describe and analyze the territorial expansion of the United States including:
* Northwest Ordinance;
* The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition;
* Westward movement including Manifest Destiny;
* The Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War.
Use the Rubric and 9 Questions to Answer Using the INFOhio Social Studies
Rubric to evaluate the following:
Click to view Video
1803 Louisiana Purchase
http://mediast.infohio.org/flvvideo.php?videoid=10864
Grade K Economics
Benchmark B: Distinguish between goods and services and explain
how people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services.
Indicator 03: Production, Distribution and Consumption /
Identify goods and services.
Use the Rubric and 9 Questions to Answer Using the INFOhio Social Studies
Rubric to evaluate the following:
How our economy works: All about earning and spending money
http://mediast.infohio.org/flvvideo.php?videoid=82
Click to view Video
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Grade 1 Economics
Benchmark B: Distinguish between goods and services and explain how
people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services.
Indicator 02: Production, Distribution and Consumption /
Describe the ways people produce, consume and exchange goods and
services in their community.
Benchmark C: Explain ways that people may obtain goods and services.
Indicator 03: Explain ways that people may obtain goods and services that
they do not produce including the use of money and barter.
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Grade 2
Economics
Benchmark B: Distinguish between goods and services and explain how
people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services.
Indicator 02: Explain how people are both buyers and sellers of goods
and services.
Benchmark B: Distinguish between goods and services and explain how
people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services.
Indicator 03: Recognize that most people work in jobs in which they
produce a few special goods or services.