History, Citizenship, and Community
Engineering America: U.S. History + Engineering & Architectural Design. This course serves to help students make connections between U.S. History and the engineering innovations that helped form our nation. Students will not only use the engineering design process as they attempt to solve the historical challenges presented to them, but they will also look at the Code of Ethics that governs decisions in the world of engineering; they will examine how decisions made by powerful people had an impact on the landscape and forever altered the way things are done in the US. This course seeks to explain the political, social, economic, and technological factors that prompted the need for engineering innovation in US History. Upon completion of the course, students will think and act like historians, understanding that source, contextualizing, and corroborating historical sources are used to analyze and address present day issues. Their understanding will be demonstrated in a culminating project in which small student teams design/build a scale model of a modern “ideal” US city informed by their understanding of history. Upon completion of this course, students will understand the design process, logistical thinking, and relevance of engineering in American life. This course provides a foundation that could serve as an opportunity for further study in engineering as a career.
(Source: University of California Curriculum Integration Center: http://ucci.ucop.edu/integrated-courses/engineering-america.html)
How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
World History by Design is a course in which students will analyze significant periods in world history from the development of government systems through to modern times while building the basic skills of graphic design elements and principles. Students will use major world events such as revolutions, wars and globalization as the inspiration for design projects to synthesize the knowledge into cohesive assignments that are both content driven and conceptual. Students have the opportunity in this course to demonstrate their knowledge of historical content through the creating art, using the elements and principles of design. Students will produce a series of artistic products that reflect their comprehension of both historical content and relevant design skills; from the years of the ancient Greeks and Romans through the modern post Cold War world. Students will integrate the reading and viewing of traditional texts, primary source resources, technology manuals, digital media sources, appropriate era artwork and tutorials to demonstrate their knowledge of design and world history. Upon completion of this course, students will have completed their world history requirement and be prepared to take additional design courses.
(Source: University of California Curriculum Integration Center: http://ucci.ucop.edu/integrated-courses/world-history-by-design.html)
Big Ideas: History and Future of Science and Technology Based on National Geographic’s “The Big Idea” series – this course takes students on an exciting voyage through time, exploring the biggest STEM innovations of today – by moving back through history to uncover the foundations for these groundbreaking science, technology, and engineering concepts. Students will explore the history of 24 big ideas – life-changing innovations across technology, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, and transportation.
(Source: To be Developed using National Geographic’s “The Big Idea" Series)
Journey for Justice in America: American Government & Public Services provides students with the necessary skills and content knowledge in a standard American Government course, while also allowing them to understand how this knowledge is applied in careers in government services and legal sectors. The foundational American Government concepts students learn in the course also allow them to become informed, active citizens in their respective communities. In this course, students come to understand the principles on which the United States government was founded, the structure of government at the federal, state and local levels, the individual and civil liberties needed to maintain a democratic society, and the way in which order is maintained through law enforcement and the judiciary.
(Source: University of California Curriculum Integration Center (http://ucci.ucop.edu/integrated-courses/journey-for-justice.html)
iCivics Program
https://www.icivics.org/
“The practice of democracy is not passed down through the gene pool. It must be taught and learned anew by each generation of citizens."
-- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
There is an important link between civic knowledge and civic engagement. Our system thrives if Americans understand how our government and its branches work. In fact, our public schools were founded to teach young people to understand these structures, and to cultivate informed citizens. Yet students are growing up in an uncivic-minded era. Civic education has nearly disappeared from the school curriculum. More than ever, youth are not voting and are becoming disillusioned with the political process. This is why, after serving 25 years on the bench of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics in 2009: to restore civic education in our nation’s schools.
(Source: University of California Curriculum Integration Center: http://ucci.ucop.edu/integrated-courses/engineering-america.html)
How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
World History by Design is a course in which students will analyze significant periods in world history from the development of government systems through to modern times while building the basic skills of graphic design elements and principles. Students will use major world events such as revolutions, wars and globalization as the inspiration for design projects to synthesize the knowledge into cohesive assignments that are both content driven and conceptual. Students have the opportunity in this course to demonstrate their knowledge of historical content through the creating art, using the elements and principles of design. Students will produce a series of artistic products that reflect their comprehension of both historical content and relevant design skills; from the years of the ancient Greeks and Romans through the modern post Cold War world. Students will integrate the reading and viewing of traditional texts, primary source resources, technology manuals, digital media sources, appropriate era artwork and tutorials to demonstrate their knowledge of design and world history. Upon completion of this course, students will have completed their world history requirement and be prepared to take additional design courses.
(Source: University of California Curriculum Integration Center: http://ucci.ucop.edu/integrated-courses/world-history-by-design.html)
Big Ideas: History and Future of Science and Technology Based on National Geographic’s “The Big Idea” series – this course takes students on an exciting voyage through time, exploring the biggest STEM innovations of today – by moving back through history to uncover the foundations for these groundbreaking science, technology, and engineering concepts. Students will explore the history of 24 big ideas – life-changing innovations across technology, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology, and transportation.
(Source: To be Developed using National Geographic’s “The Big Idea" Series)
Journey for Justice in America: American Government & Public Services provides students with the necessary skills and content knowledge in a standard American Government course, while also allowing them to understand how this knowledge is applied in careers in government services and legal sectors. The foundational American Government concepts students learn in the course also allow them to become informed, active citizens in their respective communities. In this course, students come to understand the principles on which the United States government was founded, the structure of government at the federal, state and local levels, the individual and civil liberties needed to maintain a democratic society, and the way in which order is maintained through law enforcement and the judiciary.
(Source: University of California Curriculum Integration Center (http://ucci.ucop.edu/integrated-courses/journey-for-justice.html)
iCivics Program
https://www.icivics.org/
“The practice of democracy is not passed down through the gene pool. It must be taught and learned anew by each generation of citizens."
-- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
There is an important link between civic knowledge and civic engagement. Our system thrives if Americans understand how our government and its branches work. In fact, our public schools were founded to teach young people to understand these structures, and to cultivate informed citizens. Yet students are growing up in an uncivic-minded era. Civic education has nearly disappeared from the school curriculum. More than ever, youth are not voting and are becoming disillusioned with the political process. This is why, after serving 25 years on the bench of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics in 2009: to restore civic education in our nation’s schools.