Course Resources
Other BPS/BTC Courses by Rich Pyszczek
BPS/NYS History Day Course (Click Here)
Buffalo History & Architecture Course (Click Here)
Project Based Learning Course (Click Here)
History of the Erie Canal Course (Click Here)
Social Studies Web Tools Course (Click Here)
NYS Social Studies Frameworks and IDM Course (Click Here)
TR Inaugural Site Course (Click Here)
Buffalo History & Architecture Course (Click Here)
Project Based Learning Course (Click Here)
History of the Erie Canal Course (Click Here)
Social Studies Web Tools Course (Click Here)
NYS Social Studies Frameworks and IDM Course (Click Here)
TR Inaugural Site Course (Click Here)
Useful Websites:
WNY Heritage Press Magazine Archive
WNY Heritage Press Magazine Archive Waterfront Query
WNY Heritage Press Central Wharf Part 1
WNY Heritage Press Central Wharf Part 2
WNY Heritage Press Central Wharf Part 3
Buffalo Architecture and History Waterfront Table of Contents
Erie Canal Videos by Low Bridge Productions
Buffalo, NY Historical Markers Database
Discovering Buffalo One Street at a Time
BTC Social Studies Inquiry Design Course
BTC Erie Canal Course
IDM Blueprint Template
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NYS Social Studies Frameworks K-8
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NYS Social Studies Frameworks 9-12
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NYS Social Studies Standards (click here)
Standard 1: History of the United States and New York
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
Standard 2: World History
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
Standard 3: Geography
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
Standard 4: Economics
Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
Standard 2: World History
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
Standard 3: Geography
use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
Standard 4: Economics
Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the U.S. and other nations; the U.S. Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.
P-12 Common Core Learning Standards Documents (click here)
On January 10th, 2011, the Board of Regents approved the recommended additions to the Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy and Common Core Learning Standards for Mathematics, plus a new set of Prekindergarten Standards. The documents can be accessed below. Additional information about the P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy is available on the EngageNY website at http://engageny.org
CCLS Shifts in ELA and Math (Click Here to Download)
NYSUT Rubric for APPR (2012 Edition) (Click Here to Download)
Just as New York State's Teaching Standards describe effective practice, the NYSUT Teacher Practice Rubric reveals the state's broad standards in specific and focused terms. This rubric selected for use in the TED system approved by NYSED for use statewide by districts working to implement Annual Professional Performance Reviews.