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NEW and improved PPT from DPI. Use this or any part of it you like. []

You will see some of the old stuff but there is also new slides. My favorite better explains Concept/Topic.

Social Studies K-5 Resources 2010 Social Studies Essential Standards: Meeting the Needs of All Students in the 21st Century

North Carolina's Standard Course of Study has been completely overhauled and new standards are to be implemented in classrooms beginning in 2012-13. This Instructional Toolkit is designed to help teachers pattern their instruction and classroom student assessments to the state's newly adopted curriculum. Please use this toolkit in conjunction with state- and district-level professional development to help you make the transition to the new standards in your classroom

Old Standards:

Instructional Support Tools

Essential Standards with Clarifying Objectives

Social Studies Resources Wiki: This includes professional development opportunities for social studies as well. -http://ssresources-nc.wikispaces.com/About

Revised Blooms Taxonomy Template for Unpacking Activity SmartBoard sort activity Concepts/Topics Structure of Knoweldge visual 5 Strands of Social Studies Yearly Plan template
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Resources from NC DPI Here’s some info about personal financial literacy resources available through the State Employees Credit Union to share with your 6-12 Social Studies lead teachers!

SECU has a strong commitment to youth and adult financial education in North Carolina. The credit union uses a variety of programs to assist in its educational efforts and those are outlined below. In addition, SECU partners with groups including the Department of Public Instruction, College Foundation, NC Business Committee for Education, NC Council on Economic Education and local schools to participate in educational initiatives such as College Application Week, FAFSA Day, Students@Work, DECA and FBLA competitions and mentoring/tutoring programs.

FAT CAT The FAT CAT program is designed for elementary age students. Topics covered in this program include careers, savings accounts, and economics among others. The program offers fun activities and games to enhance a child’s creativity. Worksheets and workbooks are available to accompany lessons. Also included is an interactive website with games, videos and worksheets for students. Visit [|www.cufatcats.org] to learn more.

Biz Kid$ Biz Kid$ is an exciting financial education program for middle school students. The program is taught using television shows featuring young entrepreneurs and their financial choices. The show concludes with fun games and activities used to reinforce the concepts discussed. Several topics included in the shows are using credit wisely, saving, budgeting, investing, donating and running a business. Biz Kid$ also includes a website with video clips, program materials and more. Visit [|www.bizkids.com] for more information.

National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) High School Financial Planning Program (HSFPP) The NEFE HSFPP was created for high school students to introduce them to basic financial concepts. This comprehensive program includes a student guide for each participant. The guide is complete with activities to assist in developing the student’s own financial management plan. Several topics included in the student guide are budgeting, careers, checking accounts, investments and credit cards. Each instructor using the program may receive a manual with discussion questions, exams and activities to correspond with each unit. This program provides a unique opportunity for students to develop financial skills before they begin to consider a career or select a college. SECU personnel can assist teachers with obtaining NEFE HSFPP materials, and serve as instructors if needed. To view program materials and other program information, visit [].

K-12 Social Studies Listserv If you know of someone who would like to subscribe to the listserv, ask them to email the following information to Bernadette Cole atBernadette.cole@dpi.nc.gov: 1. Name and position (i.e. teacher, coordinator, principal, literacy coach, curriculum specialist, etc.) 2. Email Address 3. School District and Region 4. School, organization, or agency 5. Grade level responsibility 6. Phone number

§ Carolina Navigators A program of the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Navigators provides K-16 teachers and students with FREE cultural resources and interactive classroom presentations that will support the NC Standard Course of Study for Social Studies. Resources include: o Culture Kits: a collection of tangible items from a country for which an international and/or UNC travelers collected. Educators from any public or private school in North Carolina may borrow the materials. Find out more details on the site at []. o Voicethread Presentations: [] o Resource Bank: provides educators with globally-oriented resources around a variety of issues and topicshttp://ibiblio.org/cgi/navigators/ o Virtually Presentations: connect with a UNC student via an online medium called Elluminate -http://cgi.unc.edu/navigators/resources/classroom-speakers o Classroom Presenters: invite a UNC student to speak to your students --http://cgi.unc.edu/navigators/resources/classroom-speakers For more information about Carolina Navigators, click on the following link: [] or email: navigators@unc.edu.

§ International Civil Rights Center & Museum Through its exhibitions, collections, and educational programs, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, NC promotes an understanding of the struggles for social justice and freedom in the United States and across the world. The long-term exhibition,The Battlegrounds—an engaging 15 gallery experience—explores episodes in the modern American civil rights movement through the installation of historic documents, three dimensional artifacts, photographs, newsreel footage, video reenactments, and interactive stations. Housed in the former F.W. Woolworth department store, this exhibition also includes the once segregated “whites only” lunch counter—the site of a 1960 watershed sit-in protest by four black freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (now North Carolina A. & T. State University). Their courageous actions inspired thousands of college and high school students—black and white—to conduct lunch counter sit-in campaigns in Greensboro and throughout the country that brought an end to racial separation in public accommodation practices. For hours of operation and other information visit them on the web at: [|www.sitinmovement.org].