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WELCOME TO WCSS 19! Please check the WCSS Website for council news, information about WCSS mini-grants, upcoming PD opportunities, and more! Also, you can access all submitted presenter materials here. Enjoy your two days of social studies fun in Madison!

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7:00am CDT

BREAKFAST TBAWCSS

8:00am CDT

KEYNOTE BallroomEric Larsen

9:10am CDT

Projects in Standards-Based GradingLIMITED C/DCawley Hubner • Courtney Milkent • C/D A Report Card for AmericaLIMITED Senate AJill Jones Investigating Social Studies Through InquiryFILLING Room IIDeborah Jones Wait you want me to think?!" Moving away from lecture to Inquiry-based Social Studies classroomFULL A/BLindsey Bernhardt • Sarah McLellan Ways of Knowing: Framing Inquiry in the Secondary ClassroomLIMITED Room IVicki Porior Interdisciplinarity & The Big History ProjectLIMITED Senate BMichael Weisensel Get Them Arguing!LIMITED Room IIIJoey Kovnesky The Final LessonLIMITED Room IVMichael Koren Mount Vernon Teacher InstituteLIMITED Room VRhonda Watton American Indian Studies in WisconsinLIMITED AssemblyDavid O'Connor

10:10am CDT

Game Changer: Learn Today, Engage Tomorrow!LIMITED A/BMichael Matera Civic Engagement in the Elementary School: A Voice for AllLIMITED Room IWanda Kern Free Global Resources from UW-Madison's Institute for Regional and International StudiesLIMITED Room IIINancy Heingartner Curriculum Renewal and Design for Social Studies, Sun Prairie's StoryLIMITED AssemblySamantha Moen • Tim Keal • Andrea Daniels • Jill Schmoldt • Rick Mueller Exploring History and Culture through GamesLIMITED Senate BJohn Jandrin Using Sports to Teach Social StudiesLIMITED Senate AJohn C Honish Blended Learning: How to Flip Your Social Studies ClassroomLIMITED Room VRyan Bailey Learning Beyond The ClassroomLIMITED Room IVBrittany Glad • Teri Rucinsky • Tanya Schmidt • Room IV Mettle & Honor, Wisconsin History Brought to LifeLIMITED C/DMark Concannon Incorporating the new Behavioral Sciences standards into any social studies classroomFILLING Room IIAndy Riechers

11:00am CDT

OPEN TIME IN THE EXHIBIT HALL TBAWCSS WCSS AWARDS AND LUNCH TBAWCSS

12:10pm CDT

Rho Kappa National Honors Society: Recognizing Student Success in Social StudiesLIMITED Room VIndia Meissel • Jenny Morgan • Room V Inquiry Based Learning in the Social Studies ClassroomFILLING A/BThomas Freesmeier Isn’t Inquiry Always Interdisciplinary?LIMITED Senate BJessica Leahy • Bizzy Schultz The Other C3 Framework: Custom Core ContentLIMITED Room IVMark Gallo Using Student Choice to Make the Most of Your ContentLIMITED Room IIIYedda Olson “Thinking Like a Historian:” Shaping Elementary Social Studies Instruction Around the New Inquiry StandardsLIMITED AssemblyConnie Michaud • Kevin J Podeweltz • Assembly No Text Book? No Problem! Create Your Own with Actively Learn!LIMITED C/DErin Patchak Using Primary Sources to Highlight Women in U.S. HistoryLIMITED Room IIChristine Kadonsky Using the 1880 Census Report to Learn about a Kansas Community on the Great PlainsLIMITED Room IScott Scheuerell "Dinner with the Past": Implementing the new standards into curriculumLIMITED Senate AJen Wachowski

1:10pm CDT

Teaching Economics in the 21st Century ClassroomLIMITED Senate AMichael Horne Replenish Your Social Studies ToolboxFULL A/BChuck Taft Bridging Two Worlds: Lodi High Schools Thailand Exchange and Distance Education ProgramsLIMITED Room IVJohn P. Fassbender • Mark C. Kohl • Room IV C3 for K-3! Develop Questions, Apply Tools, Evaluate Evidence and Take Informed Action in Elementary Social Studies!LIMITED AssemblyLa Keshia Neal It's a Girl - The Three Most Dangerous Word in the WorldLIMITED Room IIIMelissa Collum A Creative Curriculum for a Crowded WorldLIMITED C/DHoward Aprill Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case – A Wisconsin Historical Inquiry Adventure GameLIMITED Room IIKristin Leglar • Peter Michaud Simulations in Social StudiesFULL Room IKatie Bilotta A Virtual Visit to Thomas Jefferson's MonticelloLIMITED Room VLaura Cooper • Daniel Hoppe

2:15pm CDT

KEYNOTE BallroomMary Beth Tinker