Target Audience: K-12 Social Studies Teachers, Content Specialists, Curriculum Administrators This session is dependent on the approval of new social studies standards by the Michigan State Board of Education in the summer of 2019. A presentation of the new standards will include attention to the changes and any curriculum and instruction shifts required as well resources that may help to implement the changes. Participants will explore their grade level, grade band, and subject specific standards, as well as the supplementary sections about the C3 Framework and Social Studies Processes and Skills.

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Target Audience: Grade 5 Teachers This one day session will help Grade 5 teachers implement the MC3 curriculum and address any shifts to the state social studies standards. Curriculum author Carol Egbo will provide an overview of the entire Early Integrated American History course available for free on the MAISA Atlas Rubicon, and facilitate lesson activities and strategies for teaching grade 5 social studies.

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Target Audience: Grade 6 Social Studies Teachers This one day session will help Grade 6 teachers implement the MC3 curriculum and address any shifts to the state social studies standards. Curriculum author Carol Egbo will provide an overview of the entire World Geography course available for free on the MAISA Atlas Rubicon, and facilitate lesson activities and strategies for teaching Grade 6 social studies.

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Target Audience: K-12 Social Studies teachers Using the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework as a foundation for understanding the recent shift towards more inquiry in Social Studies teaching and learning, this 3-day series will introduce teachers to the Arc of Inquiry of the C3 Framework as well as a design tool for creating their own inquiries (Inquiry Design Model).

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Target Audience: K-4 Teachers The elementary classroom is a busy place. Learn ready-to-implement strategies to engage students in content area learning in an already jam-packed schedule. Topics include: Self-directed and Station Work, Content Based Literacy Activities, Geo Brain Breaks, Geography and STEM.

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Target Audience: K-12 Teachers What better way to teach young people the power of maps and the limitless depth of geography than a half court-sized map of a continent or state map on which they can explore, travel around, compete, collaborate and have lots of fun? Giant Traveling Maps are an enormously entertaining and educationally powerful tool for introducing geography and map reading skills to students, grades K-12. This evening session is designed to introduce K-12 teachers to the MISD’s Giant Traveling Maps, orient them to the lessons and activities, and schedule their school for 1 week of use with the map of their choice. Designed to promote geographic literacy by igniting interest in geography, the maps and accompanying activities incorporate physical movement and games to teach students place names, physical geography, and cultural geography as well as map reading skills.

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Target Audience: 6-12 Social Studies Teachers This workshop will provide basic ideas about how to use world atlases and historical atlases with students, how to create engaging lesson plans with maps and atlases as featured sources, and how to involve students actively in the process of learning in social studies.

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