Program Overview. Introduction. Multiple Pathways to the Content. Connect. Instructional Model. Concept Connector

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1 Program Overview Introduction Multiple Pathways to the Content This guide explores Prentice Hall World History 2014 and focuses on resources that engage students and help them to connect to, experience, and understand world history. Prentice Hall World History 2014 correlated to the Common Core State Standards provides multiple pathways to learning that take advantage of 21st century skills and technologies. Connect Instructional Model Connecting is all about activating prior knowledge, engaging students, and making learning meaningful and personal for students. In Prentice Hall World History, students will connect to content in the program in personal and exciting ways. So, what is the goal of instruction? Teaching students how to think and to transfer what they have learned to their world. Prentice Hall World History enables students to meet these instructional goals by using Essential Questions to introduce new concepts, stimulate conversation, and inspire students to go beyond historical facts and connect what they are learning to the world around them. Weaving the Essential Questions throughout the program helps students see the connection between events across time and place. Through the Essential Questions, students explore issues, shift their perspective, and transfer what they have uncovered throughout each lesson and apply it to the next lesson. Concept Connector The Concept Connector gets students thinking critically about the enduring issues and Essential Questions. The review at the end of every chapter reinforces the significance of previous key issues and debates in the chapter. 1

2 Concept Connector Journal The Concept Connector Journal, which emphasizes some of the Common Core State Standards, scaffolds the Essential Questions and provides different examples across history to help students build their understanding of each Essential Question. Students also revisit key issues that people have wrestled with over time. 21st Century Skills PBS Videos What are 21st century skills? 21st century skills are critical-thinking skills necessary to help students succeed in college and in their future careers. Today s students need to be proficient with skills such as demonstrating information literacy and giving a multimedia presentation. The 21st Century Skills Handbook in the text provides creative ways for students to demonstrate what they know. For example, students use these skills and apply their content knowledge to create their own Essential Questions video. Pearson partnered with PBS to provide videos from such programs as American Experience, NOVA, and other well-known PBS programs. These videos provide a framework and context to what students will be learning in an upcoming chapter. They are available to students and teachers through the online digital course both in streaming and downloadable format. 2

3 In the News This visual, engaging update, new to the 2014 program, provides a snapshot of significant events in the news. Some of these events include the 2012 national elections and events in the Middle East that have the potential to shape the national and international landscapes. By using this resource, students can learn how individuals or events in the news become the building blocks of world history. Experience Essential Questions In Prentice Hall World History, experience comes from active learning. The program provides multiple pathways to actively learn, use technology, and develop 21st century skills. Some of the program resources can be used in multiple learning pathways to allow students to interact with people and events of the past. The Concept Connector Feature pages, journal, and assessments found throughout the World History program serve as a structured discussion and note-taking system. These components focus on the Essential Questions, pivotal issues, and debates throughout history while helping students make connections to events in today s world. Students can also go online to transfer what they have learned about the past to gain a clearer understanding of the world today. 3

4 Interactive Technologies The program provides a suite of interactive technologies to help enhance instruction and engage students in learning. Activities are available online and on the PresentationExpress Premium DVD-ROM. Some of these activities include history simulations, interactive quizzes, Hip Hop vocabulary songs, and Channel Awesome interactivities that use a game show format to teach content. Student and teacher resources, including the student edition and Teacher s Edition, are available online on SuccessNet. Students can click active links in the online student edition to access some of these activities. Interactive Whiteboard Activity-Based Learning The program also provides interactive whiteboard activities connected to the Events that Changed the World feature found in the student text. These activities help students connect to, experience, and understand a specific topic and can be used for direct, small-group, and whole-group instruction. Prentice Hall World History incorporates activity-based learning throughout the program. From simple activities to whole-class projects, the Historian s Apprentice Activity Pack supports the study of world history and encourages students to use authentic primary sources to answer intriguing questions. By evaluating historical clues including documents, letters, illustrations, political cartoons, and more students investigate both the pivotal and personal moments of the past. 4

5 Understand Informal Assessment Developing true understanding means that students do not simply memorize facts, dates, and places. It means taking what they have learned and transferring that knowledge to new content, situations, ideas, and to their own lives. The resources in the program help students understand and transfer their knowledge to the real world. Every time students see a Progress Monitoring Online box, they can take a multimedia Know It?, Show It! quiz or test. They can also complete a multiple-choice self-quiz or chapter test with vocabulary practice. Quick Study Guides At the end of each chapter, students use the Quick Study Guide to ensure they have mastered the chapter content and are ready for the chapter test. Each guide visually organizes and reviews main ideas in a variety of formats, such as charts, graphs, tables, and timelines. Document- Based Assessments Formal Assessment Options Review The Document-Based Assessment found at the end of each chapter contains several documents followed by multiple-choice questions. These questions help students analyze the documents and practice map, graph, visual learning, and critical reading skills. Writing tasks help students compare, contrast, and draw conclusions about the various documents in the program. Many opportunities for formal assessment also occur throughout the program both in print and online. Options such as Test Prep with Document-Based Assessments, Adequate Yearly Progress Monitoring Assessments, and the ExamView Test Generator provide you with multiple, customizable, formal assessment options. This guide explored Prentice Hall World History 2014 and focused on resources that engage students and help them to connect to, experience, and understand world history. 5