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Social Studies Educator; #ungrading pusher; Nonprofit co-founder; Medically retired US Army Officer
Jan 16, 2023 12 tweets 7 min read
This morning I decided to play around with #ChatGPT and asked it to write a lesson plan. I chose to center the lesson around the first Indiana standard for 8th grade social studies. Here's how it went:🧵
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The standard reads: “Identify the major Native American Indian groups of eastern North America and identify cause and effect relationships between European settlers and these Native American groups that led to conflict and cooperation.”

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Sep 17, 2022 15 tweets 4 min read
Just in time for #ConstitutionDay my Government classes finished up our Constitutional Convention simulation games! Both of my classes broke with history and made some very different constitutions!

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(1/) Delegates for 1st Block’s C...Delegates for 3rd Block’s C... The game was played over four sessions, based on a modified version of the @ReactingTTPast ConCon game. You can see the overview of the first session, where they debated the House of Representatives, in this short thread:

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Sep 6, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
A couple of days ago I mentioned my US Gov classes were starting a sim/game for the Constitutional Convention. We've done the first day of it and thought I'd share the results.

For context, we're on a block schedule and I have 2 Gov classes this semester.

(1/) #edchat #sschat I took the role of Washington as President of the Convention to facilitate the game. The first order of business was to elect the Convention Secretary (in the context of the game, this person helps me keep vote tallies).

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