Elementary Social Studies Advocates
May 2015 Newsletter
Social Studies Updates
Asian Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
Interested in learning more about Asian American history? Looking for lesson plan ideas and literature to use with your students to teach about Asian American history? Join UT professors, graduate students, and City of Austin representatives for a day of learning. Participants will receive 6 hours of CPE credit, lunch, lesson plans on 4 topics (Chinese expulsion and Angel Island, Philippine farm workers, incarceration, and the role of Asian Americans in the civil rights movement), and additional resources. This workshop is for K-8 social studies teachers, librarians and secondary World Cultures teachers. Sign up on HCP, section # 77596. Substitutes will be covered.
May 13,9:00-4:00
Asian American Resource Center
8401 Cameron Road
Totally Texas and Awesome America -- and allow us to treat you to dinner and a movie!
And along those same lines, Awesome America will prepare 5th and 8th grade teachers for a full year of teaching our nation's history and geography where you will also leave with lessons, books, visuals, materials and the confidence to teach a new subject. Participants will meet at the O.Henry Middle School Library for this two-day training. July 14-15, 8:00-3:30 pm; sign up on HCP Section 77233.
And don't forget the Dinner and a Movie are on us Monday, May 11 at the Bullock Texas State History Museum where we'll meet to socialize and watch the movie La Belle, visit the exhibit and discuss European Exploration in the southwest. Dinner will be served. There is no cost for the event. Sign up on HCP 77478.
Summer PD from the Social Studies Department
Section # 77332
History Alive!: Putting Strategies into Practice
June 23-24, Anderson High School
Section 77216
Totally Texas!
June 23-24, Bullock Texas History Museum
Section #77231
Awesome America!
July 14-15, O.Henry Middle School
Section #77233
Reading Like a Historian: Multiple Points of View
July 22, Small Middle School
Section # 77197
UNDERSTANDING NEW INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
June 25, Boone Elementary
8:30-11:30 Section #77220
1:00-4:00 Section #77300
July 28, Zavala Elementary
8:30-11:30 Section #77222
1:00-4:00 Section #77305
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Other Professional Development of Interest:
- Bullock Texas History Museum--Texas Social Justice Series: Justice in Education, Thursday, May 7 at 7 pm. For more information: education@thestoryoftexas.com
- Bullock Texas History Museum -- Save the Date! An evening for Educators: African American History Through Art, Wednesday, July 15, at 5 pm.
Free National Geographic Bee Contest Materials for Grades 4 – 8: The National Geographic Society is releasing the official contest materials of the 2015 National Geographic Bee for free. These materials are meant to provide schools an opportunity to preview what participation in the National Geographic Bee would entail. The society is calling this opportunity a Free-Bee. Schools with grades 4 through 8 that have not previously participated in the National Geographic Bee qualify to receive the Free-Bee classroom materials. Requests for the materials can be submitted at https://kbednarz.wufoo.com/forms/get-a-freebee-for-your-school/.
- Humanities Texas is sponsoring two summer Institutes: American Presidents and the Nation, 1970-2000 in Austin June 7-10, and From Colonists to Revolutionaries in Fort Worth, June 15-18. For more information: http://www.humanitiestexas.org/education/teacher-institutes
How to Find Us
Email: beth.hudson@austinisd.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/austinisd.org/socialstudies/curriculum-resources
Location: 1111 West 6th Street, Austin, TX,
Phone: (512) 414-4410
Twitter: @bhudson22