1. Classroom Based Assessments: Resources, Tips, and Tools Nadean Meyer Eastern Washington University

2. Teacher Librarians Teacher Librarians across the state Task force and training since 2004 http://wlma.org/cbas

3. 4 3 2 1 Collaboration Civics CBA Resources Research Resources Common Step Teaching Tools Agenda

4. Goals See the range of resources Know where to look after today Excitement about what our students can think about

5. Your goals District or Elementary or Secondary Teachers or Librarians or Administrators Done a CBA with students or Not Yet Have your content selected or Not Yet Database access in school– Y N

6. What do Teacher-Librarians Contribute to the Partnership ? Provide instructional support –Essential Questions –Note Taking Strategies –Reliable Resources Help with “backwards planning” –Where do we want them to go? –What do we expect to see? –How will we get there? Statewide assistance –http://wlma.org/cbas

7. Resources Books count too! Varying resources across schools One time 2008-09 School Library Funding ~ $4.00 FTE Today’s demonstration is mainly web reources

8. Common Steps Transferable skills Research Process Citing sources Using information

9. Common Steps Essential Question Key Concepts & Vocabulary Inquiry (reading and note-taking, bibliography) Organization & Synthesis Group Process & Discussion Position (Writing!) Presentation (Communication!)

10. Avoiding the Overload OSPI Libraries WLMA Public Civic groups Museums

11. OSPI Classroom Based Assessments –http://www.k12.wa.us/assessment/WASL/SocialStudies/default. aspxhttp://www.k12.wa.us/assessment/WASL/SocialStudies/default. aspx –Many updated Summer 2008 OSPI Resources –http://www.k12.wa.us/CurriculumInstruct/SocStudies/def ault.aspxhttp://www.k12.wa.us/CurriculumInstruct/SocStudies/def ault.aspx –Unit outlines, supporting resources, anchored sets graphic organizers and more…

12. Libraries Pathfinders Databases Reference librarians Best of web Evaluation criteria

13. Pathfinders Procedure to scaffold resources Preselected for guidance Library of Congress Internet Public Library Joyce Valenza http://www.wlma.org/cbas http://www.mead354.org/page.cfm?p=42 3

14. WLMA Pathfinder Checks & Balance- 3 branches Impeachment Andrew Johnson Time- reconstruction Primary sources Secondary http://wlma.org/storage/cbas/pathfinders/middle-checks-johnson.htmlwlma.org/storage/cbas/pathfinders/middle-checks-johnson.html

15. Mead http://www.mead354.org/page.cfm?p=423

16. Mead -Middle School http://www.mead354.org/page.cfm?p=9686

17. Where to start? Process OSPI Directions and Rubric Decide topic or content WLMA pathfinder –Andrew Johnson Impeachment Use teacher mind to determine KWL Examine best resources available Teaching toolkit CAUTION!-”letting students loose on issue with many choices”

18. Gradual Release of Responsibility

19. Civics

20. We the People http://www.civiced.org/

21. Our Documents http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&

22. National Archives archives.gov

23. Ben’s Guide to Gov http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/election/index.html Range of Grades

24. Historical Thinking Noodletools.com—Teachers- Abilock PBS teachers Why Historical Thinking Matters http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/why/ Jamie McKenzie- fno.org http://fno.org/sept07/soc.html

25. Complete sites Martha Ballard’s Diary 27 years colonial http://dohistory.org http://dohistory.org

26. Complete Sites Diary of Opal Whiteley http://intersect.uoregon.edu/opal/

27. Think aloud Rubric Resources Keywords Engagement Assessing Success for all students

28. Finding the “good stuff”

29. Factchecked.org Lessons, straight from the source, tools of the trade, wikipedia lessons

30. Thinkfinity.org- Lessons

31. Interactive Constitution http://72.32.50.200/constitution/index_no_flash.php

32. Valley of the Shadow http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

33. National Archives Includes lessons and digital artifacts –http://www.archives.gov/education/http://www.archives.gov/education/

34. Washington State Historical Society http://stories.washingtonhistory.org/education/teachers/index.shtml

35. Washington State History Lab Museums Washington State History Lab – http://www.historylab.org/default.htm http://www.historylab.org/default.htm http://www.wsu.edu/~accessnw/resources/ banned02-04.htm

36. Washington State Library Washington State Legislature http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature/StudentsPage/

37. Supreme Court http://www.oyez.org/

38. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ Digital history

39. University of Washington –http://content.lib.washington.edu/http://content.lib.washington.edu/

40. Library of Congress –American Memory- Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

41. Statewide Library Listings http://www.secstate.wa.gov/quicklinks/searchwayfinder

42. Subscription Databases

43. Databases School ESD pricing Statewide Database Licensing Project Washington State Library Public Libraries have access too

44. Proquest ProQuest/elibrary http://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/login.dohttp://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/login.do

45. Culture Grams Culturegrams (states, countries, multimedia) http://online.culturegrams.com/

46. Culturgrams Egypt

47. NetTrekker Nettrekker (includes standards and timelines) http://school.nettrekker.com/frontdoorhttp://school.nettrekker.com/frontdoor

48. Facts on File Facts On File http://factsonfile.infobasepublishing.com/newsservices.asphttp://factsonfile.infobasepublishing.com/newsservices.asp

49. ProQuest Search within publications like: Social Education Cobblestone Elibray– Lexiles for range of reading levels Statewide Database Project- funded through your money– access through school or public library– help with getting all students with a card

50. Cobblestone Online http://cobblestoneonline.netFree index, $50 per building online

51. Discovery Streaming

52. Freely accessible media

53. Smithsonian http://americanhistory. si.edu/militaryhistory/e xhibition/flash.html Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/ind ex.html Online Databases- Media

54. Smithsonian

55. Kitzu http://www.kitzu.com

56. Subscription Databases- Video National Archives video on Google –http://video.google.com/nara. htmlhttp://video.google.com/nara. html

57. National Archives Video

58. Online Tools Thesis Generators Timeline Builders Citation Creator And more…

59. Persuasive –http://www.ozline.c om/electraguide/the sis.htmlhttp://www.ozline.c om/electraguide/the sis.html Action Statement –http://www.powayusd.com/ projects/ewe2/thesis.htmhttp://www.powayusd.com/ projects/ewe2/thesis.htm Online Thesis Builders

60. Thesis builder

61. Thesis builder electra

62. Citations FREE –Knight Cite http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/ –Oregon OSLIS Citation Maker http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/index.php?page=cit eSourceshttp://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/index.php?page=cit eSources –Citation Machine (Warlick) http://citationmachine.net/ –Noodlebib Express http://www.noodletools.com SUBSCRIPTION –Noodlebib http://www.noodletools.com

63. Noodlebib express

64. Graphic Organizers Inspiration Software New Webspiration Microsoft Office ReadWriteThink –http://interactives. mped.org/view_int eractive.aspx?id= 127&title=http://interactives. mped.org/view_int eractive.aspx?id= 127&title=

65. Essay Map http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/essaymap/

66. Notetaker http://interactives.mped.org/vi ew_interactive.aspx?id=722& title= http://interactives.mped.org/vi ew_interactive.aspx?id=722& title= NoteStar http://notestar.4teachers.org/ Online Notes

67. Online notetaking The Awesome Highlighter –http://www.awesomehighlighter.comhttp://www.awesomehighlighter.com

68. Timeline Generators http://www.teach- nology.com/web_too ls/materials/bigtimeli ne/http://www.teach- nology.com/web_too ls/materials/bigtimeli ne/ http://www.readwrite think.org/materials/ti meline/http://www.readwrite think.org/materials/ti meline/

69. Readability Readability.info Lexiles.com Check readability in MS word Reading non-fiction Web page reading

70. Chart of CBAS http://wlma.org/storage/traincbas/cbas- list.htmlhttp://wlma.org/storage/traincbas/cbas- list.html Training for Washington State Library grant has many more resources and ideas http://wlma.org/storage/traincbas/links.html On-line GLEs will have resources too

71. Sharing resources Tagging- delicious.com Http://delicious.com/mzinfo/ –Better annotations and organization http://ewumeyer/cbas/ –What I am finding, needs organization –Can be shared

72. Nadean Meyer and WLMA task force nmeyer@ewu.edu End

73. First Amendment

74. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

75. Interactive Constitution http://72.32.50.200/constitution/index_no_flash.php

76. Supreme Court http://www.oyez.org/

77. Freedom to Read Resources from libraries Banned Books Week every late September (near Constitution Day) Access Northwest- study of Banned Books in Washington State

78. First Amendment Study http://firstamendmentfuture.org/

79. Teachfirstamendment.org Quiz in bottom right corner of home page

80. Kidspeakonline.org Online quiz IQ with answer hints

81. Media Lesson- Debbie Abilock http://noodletools.com/debbie/projects/firstam/libfree.html

82. J-ideas http://www.jideas.org/

83. National Coalition against Censorship http://www.ncac.org/education/schools/

84. Illinois First Amendment Center http://www.illinoisfirstamendmentcenter.com/ Free materials

85. More resources Access NW Banned Books http://www.wsu.edu/~accessnw/resources/banned02-04.htm Random House Teachers Toolkit http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/rhi Banned Books online list- Historical http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html Notable 1 st Amendment Court Cases http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/firstamendment/courtcases/c ourtcases.cfmhttp://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/firstamendment/courtcases/c ourtcases.cfm Banned Books Week http://bannedbooksweek.org/support.html

86. Still to do to make pathfinder Check the rubric Check my understanding Key words and vocabulary in context Concepts- learning activities Thoughtful critical questions Enough resources of different reading levels Engaging activities Search for the gaps Time to reflect