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Economics

• from the State of Washington

History

• U.S. History Formative Assessments and Rubrics - "Beyond the Bubble unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create a new generation of history assessments. Developed by the Stanford History Education Group (http://sheg.stanford.edu), Beyond the Bubble is the cornerstone of SHEG’s membership in the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources Educational Consortium. We 'go beyond the bubble' by offering easy-to-use assessments that capture students’ knowledge in action – rather than their recall of discrete facts."

• World History - Middle Ages unit - 6th grade - developed by Scott Kaciuba
  • Introduction
  • Standards
  • Formative assessment: Feudal pyramid
  • Section 1
    • Letter of apology
    • Primary source analysis
    • Venn diagram
  • Section 2
    • Comic strip
    • Postcard
    • Sensory figure
  • Section 3
    • Song, poem, or nursery rhyme
    • Middle Ages timeline
    • Middle Ages review game
  • Section 4
    • Debate

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Geography

• Map Reading Unit - developed by Dina Tufo
  • Unit introduction
  • Standards
  • Coordinates task
  • Absolute location and hemispheres task
  • Cardinal and intermediate direction and relative location task
  • Absolute and relative location task
  • Often confused terms: Continent, country, and state task
  • Map scale task
  • Geographic features task
  • Culminating Fantasy Island task
    • Formative tasks ("checkpoints") that build towards demonstrating skill of "collaboration with peers by offering constructive feedback and comments" on Fantasy Island task
      • Coordinates/geographical features task
      • Hemispheres task
      • Absolute/relative location task
      • Scale task

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Government and Civics

• U.S. Constitution Unit - developed by Faye Gisselman
  • Introduction
  • Standards
  • Word-splash
  • Articles of Confederation
  • Goals of the Preamble
  • Help wanted
  • From bill to law
  • Executive branch
  • The President's Cabinet
  • Judicial branch
  • Bill of Rights
  • Voting and elections
  • What can we do?

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• Where do we go from here? (U.S. Constitution) Unit - 7th grade - developed by Julie Pacholek
• Introduction
• Why democracy?
• Crossword vocabulary
• Preamble song
• Three branches pamphlet
• First amendment project
• Federalism concept map
• Bill to law flow chart
• Federalist Papers debate
• Letter to Congress
• Portfolio

• Three branches of federal government (portfolio)
• Participate in a civic activity

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• Research Paper

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