
Professional Development
Educators! This is for you!
Educators! This is for you!
Inquiry is an active learning process that allows students to investigate questions linked to curriculum standards and specific teaching objectives. When an inquiry process is enhanced by using objects, we can cover specific concepts while supporting students' curiosity through observation and reflection. Participants will be exposed to three lesson plans that focus on specific ODE social studies, SEL and ELA learning standards, and that use objects as the main inspiration for inquiry. Together we will discuss the effectiveness of this approach.
Remote teaching and learning can be a challenge, but there are many ways we can empower learning when in-person teaching is not possible. We’ll discuss best practices and tools to create an engaging, effective and fun virtual learning experience that will empower teachers and students through their journey. We will also reflect on some of virtual instruction's silver linings (yes, they exist).
This is your chance to take a deeper look into our award-winning digital curriculum. If you have questions about managing assessments, grading, and additional features of our online curriculum, this is your chance to get information directly from our new content coordinator.
Inclusive history includes multiple perspectives and highlight the voices, experiences and stories that have been left out of traditional textbooks and other educational resources. In this workshop we will provide practical ideas and inclusive history best practices that you can utilize in your classroom and in your curriculum.
How can Social Studies literacy and English Art literacy support each other? In this session we will discuss the challenges and benefits of an interdisciplinary approach, providing and analyzing practical examples of how to intentionally incorporate ELA in the Social Studies class and vice-versa.
Integrating science and social studies curricula is easier than you think. With these engaging, and hands-on lesson plans you can combine social studies content with STEM education. We'll share ideas to show step-by-step how to create and implement interdisciplinarity to your classroom. We will share information about useful and free STEM resources that can help social studies teachers to incorporate hands-on activities that go well with social studies content standards. Additionally we will discuss the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary approaches.
Project-based learning can be a powerful tool to upgrade student inquiries to be more authentic and focused on taking action. Teachers will discover how PBL doesn’t just engage students in inquiry, but gives them the tools to identify and nurture their passions and unique interests. During the session’s accompanying activity, teachers will get a hands-on lesson to get them thinking and talking about PBL –as well as ways to incorporate PBL into their classroom.
We’ll discuss ideas and tools generated by Ohio History Connection to support meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active social studies learning. With specific activities around inquiry, evidence-based and project-based learning, we will provide examples that allow the flexibility and differentiation required by diverse and gifted learners in regular classrooms.
Whether it’s a simulation in the classroom, a family night of board games, or a video game at home, the medium of games is essential to learning through experience. How can teachers bring this medium to the classroom? The curriculum creators at Ohio History Connection will connect teachers to resources through this workshop! Teachers will learn about game-learning theory and play with a myriad of tabletop games, board games, video games, and simulations that can be applied to the classroom. Whether you are a kindergarten teacher looking for a way to roleplay social-emotional learning or an APUSH teacher wanting to simulate the American Revolution, this workshop will equip teachers to instruct through the most entertaining medium possible.
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Inclusive history includes multiple perspectives and highlights the voices, experiences and stories that have been left out of traditional textbooks and other educational resources. We will provide practical ideas and inclusive history best practices that you can utilize in your classroom and curriculum.
How can Social Studies literacy and English Art literacy support each other? We will discuss the challenges and benefits of an interdisciplinary approach, providing and analyzing practical examples of intentionally incorporating ELA in the Social Studies class and vice-versa.
We’ll discuss ideas and tools generated by Ohio History Connection to support meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active social studies learning. With specific activities around inquiry, evidence-based and project-based learning, we will provide examples that allow the flexibility and differentiation required by diverse and gifted learners in regular classrooms.
Project-based learning can be a powerful tool to upgrade student inquiries to be more authentic and proactive. Teachers will discover how PBL doesn’t just engage students in inquiry but gives them tools to identify and nurture their unique interests. During the session’s accompanying activity, teachers will get a hands-on lesson to get them thinking and talking about PBL and ways to incorporate PBL into their classroom.
Integrating science and social studies curricula is easier than you think. With these engaging and hands-on lesson plans, you can combine social studies content with STEM education. We'll show step-by-step how to create and implement interdisciplinarity to your classroom. We will share useful and free STEM resources to help social studies teachers incorporate hands-on activities that go well with social studies content standards. We'll discuss the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary approaches.
We’ll discuss ideas and tools generated by Ohio History Connection to support meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active social studies learning. With specific activities around inquiry, evidence-based and project-based learning, we will provide examples that allow the flexibility and differentiation required by diverse and gifted learners in regular classrooms.
Whether it’s a simulation in the classroom, a family night of board games or a video game at home, the medium of games is essential to learning through experience. How can teachers bring this medium to the classroom? The curriculum creators at Ohio History Connection will connect teachers to resources through this workshop. Teachers will learn about game-learning theory and play with a myriad of tabletop games, board games, video games, and simulations that can be applied to the classroom. Whether you are a kindergarten teacher looking for a way to roleplay social-emotional learning or an APUSH teacher wanting to simulate the American Revolution, this workshop will equip teachers to instruct through the most entertaining medium possible.