Portfolio Items
All History Education Program Templates are all available at the History Education Website - on the HEP Templates page. Bookmark this page! You will need to access all your curriculum templates from this page on a regular basis.
These documents are in Google Docs form. Make and save a copy, renaming the file using your last name and the curriculum item (i.e. “Smith – Lesson Plan 1 w/ HCNs”) You can also download & save these files as Microsoft Word to your computer.
- Examples from HIS 3626 class sessions (developed by instructor): Week 06
- A NC Standards Analysis worksheet (make copy, rename): Worksheet
A variety of lesson activity cards (graphic organizers, assignments) focused on specific cognitive skills in history/social studies. These cards have been generously shared for re-use by the Center for Effective Teaching & Learning (California State University-Los Angeles)
A useful chart of historical thinking skills that historians use and teach students how to use. (courtesy of UCLA Dept. of History)
Portfolio Examples
- Some example digital portfolio websites from current & previous students (History Education page – Portfolios)
Resumes & Cover Letters
- A useful primer from St. Norbert College on how to draft resumes and cover letters
NC Standards / C3 Framework
All North Carolina Standards, as well as 9-12 Social Resources, can be found at: history.appstate.edu/historyeducation/9-12-resources
State Standards
- World History Standards and unpacking document
- Civic Literacy (Founding Principles of the United States of America and North Carolina) and unpacking document
- Civic Literacy Crosswalk
- American History and unpacking document
- Economics and Personal Finance and unpacking document
- Strand Map
- Glossary of Instructional Terms
C3 Framework (National Standards) + RBT
- Common Core ELA/Social Studies Standards Grades 9-10 (and 6-8)
- C3 Framework for Social Studies
- C3 Framework (Dimension 2: History) [.pdf]
- C3 Framework (All Social Studies Dimensions) [.pdf]
- Historical Thinking Skills Chart (adapted from UCLA) [.pdf]
- Historical Thinking Skills Stanford University Chart [.png]
- (Revised) Bloom’s Taxonomy Verb Chart [.jpeg]
- RBT – verbs – activities – products [.jpeg]
- Digital Tools & Literacy – a presentation at the 2016 NCCSS
- Graphic Organizers
- NC DPI Graphic Organizers for K-12 Social Studies
Textbooks (Online)
- World History. (2014). Wikibooks, The Free Textbook Project. Retrieved December 2, 2015 from: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=World_History&oldid=2608566
- Boundless. (Last updated 2015). U.S. History. Retrieved December 2, 2015 from: https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/
- Corbett, P. S., Janssen, V., & Lund, J.M., et. al.(2014). U.S. History. Houston, TX: OpenStax College. Retrieved November 25, 2015 from: https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/us-history
- European History. (2015). Wikibooks, The Free Textbook Project. Retrieved December 2, 2015 from: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=European_History&oldid=2981780.S
- Locke, J., & Wright, B. (Eds.). (2015). The American Yawp
(2015-2016 ed.). Retrieved November 25, 2015 from: http://www.americanyawp.com/index.html - Locks, C., Mergel, S., Roseman, P., & Spike, T. (2013). History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877 (1st ed.) [3]. Dahlonega, GA: The University Press of North Georgia. Retrieved November 25, 2015 from:
http://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/books/1/ - Mintz, S., & McNeil, S. (2015). Digital History. Retrieved November 25, 2015 from: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
- Rael, P. (2004). Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College. Retrieved December 2, 2015 from: http://www.bowdoin.edu/writing-guides/index-10.htm.
Technology
- Lesson Plan ideas: Stanford History Education Group, TeachingHistory.org, World History for Us All, World History Matters (and the CHNM collections), and Newseum Ed
- Resources: NCpedia, DPLA, National Archives & Library of Congress, and Twitter accounts of historical museums
- Websites: Cult of Pedagogy, Jeff McClurken’s site (DH Workshop Links), Free Technology for Teachers, UMW Digital Tools and Media
- Visualization Tools: Voyant, Excel (charts), Thinglink
- Archival work: Omeka.net
- Apps: Clio
- Storytelling: Sutori
Digital Assessment Form [Google Doc]
- ZOTERO TECH SUPPORT
- Introduction to Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-5-0/
- Zotero Support: https://www.zotero.org/support/
- Zotero Plugins: https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins
- Comprehensive Oregon State Zotero Tutorial presented in class on 8/18: http://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/c.php?g=359201&p=2426098
- For current (older) users, read this: https://www.zotero.org/blog/a-unified-zotero-experience/
- WORDPRESS TECH SUPPORT
- Introduction to WordPress: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress and https://en.support.wordpress.com/
- Jess Reingold, “Jess’s Quick Guide to Plugins, Widgets, and Themes,” in Domain of One’s Tools, October 12, 2016. http://umwdtlt.com/jesss-quick-guide-to-plugins-widgets-and-themes/
- Jess Reingold, “Choosing a WordPress Theme,” in Domain of One’s Own, Tools, January 24, 2017. http://umwdtlt.com/choosing-a-wordpress-theme/
- Blog Design – Turning the Course Website into a Professional Portfolio
- 5 Easy Steps to a Simpler Blog Design
- Designing for the History Web
- Five simple steps to better typography – Part 4
- 7 Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good
- Creative Curio
- The Aporectic (a clean, minimalist blog-heavy site from a historian and educator)
- Sheila Brennan.com and Lot 49 (a portfolio and blogging site from a public historian and educator)