MS+Social+Studies


 * __//Please place any best practices or links to resources that you have found useful in teaching middle school Social Studies.//__**

[|MEMS Team 4 Magazine]: Still in the publishing phase, students are writing, drawing and making movies on Native Nations in the United States. Each class represents a different geographical region of the US and within the class students chose a Native Nation from that region. The teams of students were made up of artists, writers and movie makers. The writing was a summary of basic information about the nation, the pictures enhanced the information in the writing and the movie was based on either a 'famous' person from the nation or a myth/legend from the culture. In the end, the students were working as a team to meet requirements on a deadline, produce a published product and gain valuable content and skill information. [|Magazine Article Rubric] [|Native Nations Movie Rubric] (D. Laufenberg-MEMS)

[|Power of One Project]: Curricular project linked to the Paul Rusesabagina visit... here is an example of the final product for one of the students. media type="custom" key="162191" (D. Laufenberg-MEMS)