3+-+Instructional+Strategies

** Teachers will implement the following instructional strategies into their classroom to maximize student achievement. **
Presentation of material will occur in a multi-strategy approach.

Technology will be utilized to avoid the traditional lecture/note taking approach. Examples of technology include:
 * Smartboard
 * ELMO
 * Interwrite Pad
 * SOL Practice Websites

Group projects will be assigned in each area.

**//Emergence of a Global Age//**:


 * In small groups, student will research major historical figures such as Martin Luther and John Calvin in order to devise questions for these figures. Each group will also prepare one group member to answer questions as one of these characters (not the one the group researched, however).


 * The student will demonstrate knowledge of the Reformation in terms of its impact on Western civilization by describing the impact of religious conflicts, the Inquisition, and the Catholic Reformation on society and government action.


 * Students will prepare research papers outlining the impact that telephone and telegraph had on society in their respective time periods. Students must outline how communication was before and how it was effected after.


 * //Age of Revolutions//: **
 * Students will prepare a presentation on one invention of the Industrial Revolution and provide evidence of that invention’s impact upon modern society in a medium of the students’ choosing.


 * Peer to peer work on an era such as the "Ages of Revolutions" each peer to peer will take a certain era and research and present to the class. After the presentations, the other students will give feed back to each group on an important detail of the others work.


 * //Era of Global Wars//: **
 * Students will compare/contrast the government’s involvement in Darfur to the German government’s involvement in the Holocaust through an essay, a Venn diagram, a Power Point presentation, etc.


 * The student will demonstrate knowledge of political, economic, social, and cultural developments during the Interwar Period by describing the League of Nations and the mandate system


 * Students will discuss the causes of the American Revolution. Students will then write a 2 page paper discussing how Great Britain could have prevented the colonies from rebelling.

//**The Post War Period:**//
 * In small groups, student will develop a persuasive Power Point in which they will present their opinions (based upon their findings) as to the turning point of the Vietnam War.


 * Students will work together to discuss the famous people, places, and events that led to and were involved in the Cold War.


 * The student will demonstrate knowledge of major events in the second half of the twentieth century by explaining key events of the Cold War, including the competition between the American and Soviet economic and political systems and the causes of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.


 * //Geography://**
 * Students will construct a salt map of a military theater of their choosing in which the United States was considered victorious.


 * Students will analyze maps of the world during the age of exploration as well as the maps before and after World War I and II.


 * //Civics and Economics://**
 * Students will devise an exchange rate for common items listed on an internet scavenger hunt.


 * Students will discuss the impact of the Great Depression on the economies of the United States, France, and Great Britain. Students will compare and contracts those findings.


 * Students will work with local bank to discuss what money exchange is. Ask your principal and they should have information from a local bank (New Peoples Bank) that have material to help in instructional ideas of this topic.

==** Oliva Model of Curriculum Development: ** ==  Planning Phase: Selection of Strategies