PAHS

Social Studies CBA's

Tools

Writing and Reading

Common Readings

Primary Sources and Artifacts

Back

Note Making and Bibliographic Citation

Evaluation Tools

Scaffolding the CBA's

 

 

 

 

 

Sources for Writing and Reading

 

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Thesis Builder -- Fill in the blank utility

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What Is a Thesis?” and “Thesis Generator -- Joyce Valenza

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Graphic Organizers 

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Eduplace A collection of downloadable GO's.

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Laura Chandler's File Cabinet - 3 quality GO's to download.

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Graphic Organizer Index Examples and suggestions for use of GO's.

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NCREL - Examples and explanations of GO's.

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SCORE's Graphic Organizers

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Note Making Tools
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Notes Tracker -- Word Doc

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Notes Recorder (PPT Doc save to desktop to use

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NoteStar -- internet utility

 

 

Sources for Common Readings

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eLibrary-- Check the On-Line Subscriptions page for login and passwords
Elementary  
Secondary  

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ProQuest

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 History Study Center-- Check the On-Line Subscriptions page

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EBSCO Host's  History Resource Center -- Check the On-Line Subscriptions page

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World and I  -- Check the On-Line Subscriptions page
 

 

Sources for Primary Sources and Artifacts

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National Archives - USA  -- analysis artifact sheets and lessons for primary historical periods 

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National Archive- Great Britain -- Sources: see documents, photos and film from the National Archives History:  games and activities for thinking and learning about our past

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Wenatchee’s list of primary sources 

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Joyce Valenza’s (Teacher-Librarian goddess) -- using primary sources and links to several sources  

Sources for Note Making and Bibliographic Citation

Notes Tracker -- Word Doc

NoteStar -- Internet utility

Online Notes Recorder -- ppt doc.

Citation Tools
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Citation Machine -- Online utility

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OSLIS Citation Maker -- Online utility -- MLA Only

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MLA Style Guide - downloadable Word Document
Online Citation Style Guide - from Bedford St. Martin's Press

 

Anti-Plagiarism Sources
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You Quote It; You Note It --  online game

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Student Guide to Plagiarism -- How to avoid

 

 

 

Sources for Evaluation Tools

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PAHS Website Evaluation Tool (PDF)

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RADCAB Information Evaluation Tool

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Website Evaluation tool -- Kathy Schrock Discovery School

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Evaluating Web Pages Web Quest -- Joyce Valenza

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Nets -- Bernie Ddge

Tools for Scaffolding CBA's for Teachers and Students

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EdSitement  -- click on history—complete lessons with quality resources

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Education World Education World ® School Issues: Wire Side Chats: Meet Bernie Dodge -- the Frank Lloyd Wright of Learning Environments!

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Marco Polo -- Teacher's Guide :Bringing Innovative Ideas Into Your Classroom

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Readability Information -- Can provide  differentiation, different reading levels of same content
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 Readability.info -- Online Readability-- Check with URL web site or .doc Word

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Readability in MS Word -- Readability Scoring

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How kids and teens read on the web Children 
Teens 

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Jacob Nielsen -- web usability studies

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PAHS Home

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PAHS Library Homepage

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Senior Culminating Project

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Social Studies CBAs

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PAHS Research Model--Big6™

bullet PAHS Moodle -- open source e-learning platform
bullet RESEARCH RESOURCES
bullet Bibliographic Citation (citing your work)
Citation Machine
OSLIS Citation Maker
Easy Bib -- export to Word
MLA Style Guide
- downloadable Word Document

Online Citation Style Guide - from Bedford St. Martin's Press
MLA Citation Examples -- Peninsula College
bullet Fast Choices for Successful Searching
Internet Public Library
Librarians' Index to the Internet
WWW Virtual Library --
-- subject guides mostly academic, on many subjects, not annotated or evaluated but many excellent
BUBL --
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
CIA-World Fact Book up-to-date political maps and info about countries, societies, and economies throughout the world
Citizendium -- expert driven, wiki-based on-line encyclopedic source
Google Scholar -- broad
search for scholarly literature - an invisible Web resource
Internet Search Engines -- annotated PDF doc listing current engines and what they do
Inter Press Service News -- stories and analyses explaining how events and global processes affect individuals and communities
National Geo
graphic source for maps and geographical information
Online Newspapers -- Thousands of newspapers, search by country
Vivisimo -- document clustering web search
AltaVista Text Search

Mzinfo's Reference Desk - list of links for general reference questions
Complete Web -- a deep web search engine searches documents in PDF and other formats that don't normally show up in a standard search
OAIster -- a deep web search engine searches documents in PDF and other formats that don't normally show up in a standard search

Turbo 10 --
a deep web search engine searches documents in PDF and other formats that don't normally show up in a standard search
Veropedia -- vetted and uneditable Wikipedia content
Virtual Learning Resources Center -- index thousands of the best academic information websites
bullet Professional Tools
Adobe Reader Download
Bartleby.com -- Great books, verse, drama...online freely downloadable
EdSelect -- collection of links addressing educational issues
Edsitement -- The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Education World - a free resource for all things education
Discover Zone -- support site for the student planners and Advisory

Gutenberg Project -- world's largest collection of freely downloadable books in the public domain
InfoPeople - help with search tools and other tech questions related to library information services
Intute --
access to the very best Web resources for education and research created by a network of UK universities and partners
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Lexile Framework for Reading -- measuring reader ability to material difficulty
Literacy Web -- best practices in literacy instruction
LOC Wise Guide - Library of Congress  Portal.

Media Web -- booking with the IMC at OESD114
Noodle Tools -- suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research and teaching
OSPI School Report Card -- Homepage
School District Demographics Homepage
Teaching that Makes Sense -- teaching technique, curriculum delivery and Six Trait™
Teaching Tools and Utilities -- graphic organizers, on-line bookmark storage, rubric templates, etc.
United Streaming -- Educational Video Library
bullet Student Links
General Browsing
High School Hub

Homework Spot
Learning Express Library -- practice SAT, ACT, ASVAB, GED tests and skills improvement coursework -- requires a NOLS library card to access
Peninsula College Student Services -- link to college info regardless of location
Study Buddy -- Free search engine built just for homework help, leveled by grade
bullet Affiliated Libraries
NOLS. -- North Olympic Library System
KCLS -- King County Library System
bullet Teacher-Librarian Links
WLMA -- Washington Library Media Association - info for school libraries and librarians across the state
OEMA -- Oregon's sister org. to WLMA
ALA -- American Library Association
AASL -- American Association of School Librarians
Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project -- public Domain children's lit
bullet Library/Media Coordinators' Corner -- Tech Learning's link for teacher-librarians
bullet PASD Home

 

Thanks to the members of WLMA ad Hoc Committee on Social Studies CBAs. They are the ones who have developed much of the information and made it available at the 2006 OSPI Summer Institutes and on the WLMA CBA page at http://wlma.org/cbas/


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