Differentiation+in+Social+Studies


 * Create three assignments on the same topic requiring different levels of thinking.**


 * Assign students tasks that are an appropriate challenge for them**
 * or**
 * Allow students to choose one activity at each level, providing choice for everyone but making sure that all students climb the taxonomy.**

Knowledge/Comprehension/Application Create a map showing political boundaries of...
 * Red Task**

Application/Analysis Make a travel guide comparing the advantages and disadvantages for living in a certain region
 * Blue Task**

Analysis/Evaluation /Systhesis Compare the literacy and mortality rates of the United States and a developing country. Using the information write a newpaper article describing how income, literacy rates, and mortality rates affect immigration to the United States.
 * Yellow Task**


 * Lessons using primary source documents. Break the class up into groups of 4 -6 students. Give each student a copy of the historical background and reading. Give half of the groups Questions 1 and half of the groups Questions 2.**

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams
 * American Revolution**






 * George Washington's Farewell Address**




 * The Louisiana Purchase**

Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Robert Livingston







James Monroe, seventh annual message to Congress (1823)
 * The Monroe Doctrine**