What do the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies look like in practice? To learn more, access the Social Studies webinar collection! The goal of these webinars is to deepen social studies content knowledge and pedagogy and showcase what a social studies learning experience aligned to the KAS for Social Studies looks like in practice. 

Each webinar features a recording of a teacher learning experience, lesson guide and accompanying PowerPoint.  The teacher’s learning experience begins with an examination of a disciplinary strand standard. Then a partner educational organization engages participants in a sample learning experience using resources from their organization. These learning experiences are designed for participants’ use in their own classrooms with their students. Webinars are available for Elementary, Middle and High School teachers. 

Elementary teachers can learn how to engage students about economic decision making with a dive into a lesson such as How does having to keep a spending budget influence our buying decisions? (Grade 2). For Middle School teachers wanting to spotlight the impact of the Civil War on soldiers, check out the lesson on What compelled a Civil War soldier to join the Civil War and how did it change them? (Grade 8). Finally, high school teachers wanting more support for helping students to better engage with primary sources can check out the lesson on the Holocaust and American Newspapers.