1. Making Thinking Visible Strategies through Social Studies Kindergarten and 1st
BISD – April 2014

2. Let’s get started
Before we start, let’s review what it feels like to be a Kinder or 1st Grade teacher
What its like every day

3. Think – Puzzle – Explore
What do you think you know about Making Thinking Visible strategies?
What puzzles you about Making Thinking Visible strategies?
How can you explore more about Making Thinking Visible strategies?

4. What will we do today? Kindergarten – Unit 14 1st Grade – Unit 18
This will be an example, of how Making Thinking Visible Strategies can fit into a multi-day unit .

5. Think-Puzzle-Explore
What makes you say that?
What akes you say that?
What do you think you know about community?
What puzzles you about community?
How can you explore more about community?
K.14A and 1.17A Social Studies Process Skills – Obtain information about a topic through a variety of valid sources such as conversations.

6. Let’s review
Community – a group of people living in the same place

7. Homes
Post Office
Shopping
School
Grocery
store
Hospital
Apartments
Police Station

8. Let’s use a poem

9. Let’s review
Service - helping or doing work for someone

10. Community Service
Community service – is work that helps people

11. Many community organizations help
Red Cross
United Way
Food Banks
Churches

12. Explanation Game GENERATE ALTERNATIVES EXPLAIN IT GIVE REASONS NAME IT
Step 1
NAME IT
Share with a partner/small group.
Discuss and record features of the object/artifact/text. Try to notice as many details about the PARTS as possible.
Step 2
EXPLAIN IT
Begin explanining the list of features from step 1.
Come up with as many explanations as possible for how these particular PARTS work to make up the WHOLE object/artifact/text.
Sticky Notes are a great tool for documenting this step.
Step 3
GIVE REASONS
Generate reasons/evidence for why their explanations are plausible.
What evidence do you have for why a certain feature is explained a certain way? What do you see that makes you explain it that way?
Step 4
GENERATE ALTERNATIVES
Press for alternative explanations.
Pay attention to relationships between the PARTS, why they are the way the are, and how the PARTS affect the WHOLE.
Ask one another, "Why makes you say that?" after each alternative explanation is offered.

13. Let’s Play the Explanation Game
2. Explain it – Explain what it is you see.
1. Name it – Name what you see.
3. Give reasons – What in the picture makes you think that?
4. Give alternatives – What else could it be?

14. Let’s talk about community service

15. Key Elements in Community Service
Meets a real need
Coordinates with a community agency, another school or class, or the community at large

16. Headlines Headlines is used to focus on the synthesis of learning
This is done after a learning experience
Poem
Visual
Think-Puzzle-Explore

17. What is a headline?
The head of a newspaper story or article usually printed in large type and giving the gist of the story or article that follows.
What do you think would be in an article titled “School Rules” ?

18. Great activity for a writing station
What could be a headline for an article about Community Service?
Students could write a sentence
Students could draw a picture to go along with that sentence.
Now it is your turn. At your table, please use a scratch sheet of paper to write a headline about community service.

19. Real Life, Authentic Learning…
Students are involved in the decision making
What are the problems in my school or neighborhood?
What ideas do we have to help with these problems?
What is Philanthropy?
Giving and Me

20. Let’s brainstorm areas of need in our community or school.

21. Let’s take a vote
Voting – a method for group decision making

23. I Used to Think… Now I Think
What makes
you say that?
I used to think _______ about community service.
Now I think _______ about community service.

24. I Used to Think… Now I Think
I used to think _______ about Making Thinking Visible strategies.
Now I think _______ about Making Thinking Visible strategies.

25. Where could I find this information after the training?
Strategies and Structures is located under Yearly Content Documents

26. Where could I find this information after the training?