Course Resources
Our Documents Webpage (Click Here)
National Archives Featured Documents (Click Here)
Chronicling America (Click Here)
EDSITEment: National Endowment of the Humanities (Click Here)
New York Public Library (Click Here)
EDSITEment: National Endowment of the Humanities (Click Here)
National History Day (Click Here)
NHD Teacher Resources (Click Here)
NHD YouTube Channel (Click Here)
NYS History Day (Click Here)
NYSHD YouTube Channel (Click Here)
WNY History Day (Click Here)
Weebly Website Creator (Click Here)
NYSHA: New York State Historical Association (Click Here)
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (Click Here)
Buffalo History and Architecture (Click Here)
National Archives Featured Documents (Click Here)
Chronicling America (Click Here)
EDSITEment: National Endowment of the Humanities (Click Here)
New York Public Library (Click Here)
EDSITEment: National Endowment of the Humanities (Click Here)
National History Day (Click Here)
NHD Teacher Resources (Click Here)
NHD YouTube Channel (Click Here)
NYS History Day (Click Here)
NYSHD YouTube Channel (Click Here)
WNY History Day (Click Here)
Weebly Website Creator (Click Here)
NYSHA: New York State Historical Association (Click Here)
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (Click Here)
Buffalo History and Architecture (Click Here)
State Standards and CCLS
NYS Social Studies Standards (Click Here to Download)
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.
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.
P-12 Common Core Learning Standards Documents (Click Here to Download)
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
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 for ELA & 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.
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.
Other BPS/BTC Courses by Rich Pyszczek
CCLS Project Based Learning (Click Here)
Buffalo History and Architecture Course (Click Here)
Buffalo Waterfront History Course (Click Here)
History of the Erie Canal Course (Click Here)
Buffalo History and Architecture Course (Click Here)
Buffalo Waterfront History Course (Click Here)
History of the Erie Canal Course (Click Here)