School Improvement in Maryland
Instruction

 
 Grades K-8
How do you teach and assess the Content Standard Indicators?
  Content Vocabulary
    K-3  4-5  6-8
  Instructional Activities for Political Systems
    K-3   4-5   6-8
  MSDE Exemplars
    K-3   4-5   6-8
  Model Lessons
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  Port of Baltimore Lesson Plans
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How do you incorporate the teaching of reading in Social Studies?
  Sample Social Studies Lesson
    Grade:  3   5   8
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How do you use historical investigations in social studies instruction?
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 Steps in an historical investigation
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 Sample historical investigations
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Grade 4: Indentured Servitude
Grade 4-5: Charles Carroll of Carrollton's Purchase of English Goods
Grade 4-5: The First Citizen: Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Grade 5: I Declare!
Grade 6: Nubia: A Rival of Egypt?
Grade 7: Alexander the Great: Defining "Great"
Grade 8: Age of Progress: The Transcontinental Railroad
Middle School: Evidence of the First Emperor's Reign
 Audio interviews
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    Bruce Van Sledright discusses how kids learn history
Marcie Taylor-Thoma discusses historical investigations
Jon Harper discusses his classroom investigations
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