Chittenden South Supervisory Union
5420 Shelburne Road, Suite 300, Shelburne, VT  05482
Telephone: 802-383-1234 =  Fax:  802-383-1242

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Judith Newman, Ed.D, Director of Curriculum     

Kathy Delman, Admin. Assistant

                      

Curriculum:  CSSU Social Studies Curriculum Frameworks (adopted June 2004)

• (Click on the books to view the entire document or find specific sections below.)

• Introductory Pages

• Inquiry Benchmarks  Grades K-4      Grades 5-8

• Grades 1 & 2:  Community Through Time, Past and Present

• Grades 3 & 4:  Exploration, Settlement and Colonization

• Grades 5 & 6:  Formation of a Nation

• Grades 7 & 8:  Emergence into the 20-21st Century

• Social Studies at Champlain Valley Union High School

• What's New?  Resources for integrating literacy into social studies instruction.

Assessment

• Washington Classroom Based Assessments (CBAs) - This site has examples of classroom based assessments in Social Studies, complete with rubrics you can use to evaluate a performance task.

• NEAP's Geography Assessment Questions Tool.  This site allows you to pick assessment tasks from a list of items for grade 4, 8 or 12 and it will generate an assessment for you, complete with resources needed for students to take the test (maps, etc.)  These items are based on the NAEP geography standards. (Look for the link to "Questions Tool.")

Instruction