Let’s take a look inside the Texas History Awakens program!
Unit Dashboard
Students navigate across 20 Units to explore Texas History in any order they choose or as directed by teacher as to align with their daily lesson plan. A completion check will appear once student has completed a unit successfully.
Lesson Dashboard
From here students move through the lessons starting with a Unit Overview giving them a quick peek at what they are about to learn. An info page to show the TEKS, Standards and Skills are available for each Unit and Lesson. Again, students can go in any order and will receive a completion check for each lesson completed noting their progress.
Audio/Dual Language
Teachers can select any combination of English or Spanish text and audio depending on the students’ needs and reading ability.
Each lesson is broken up with on-level passages, chunking content into comprehensible bites. Audio support gives students the ability to read along with the narrator improving their fluency skills or read on their own without the narrator.
English
Play Video
Spanish
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Interactive Content
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Engaging Content
Interactive maps allow the students to follow the steps of the historians and gives them clear connections to where and when events happened with audio and visual support.
Bolded words and names link students to definitions and biographies allowing them more in-depth information.
Short videos are embedded into the lessons at appropriate places to give student live accounts of historical events.
Interactive Timelines for each Unit present a chronological depiction of the events in Texas history. This linked with audio a visual support gives students yet another view on how Texas history unfolded.
Informative Navigation Bar
The navigation bar allows student choices on how they want to explore and digest the material in each lesson. This gives them more freedom as they explore the lesson and allows for different types of learners to choose the best path for them.
Overview
Lessons
Biographies
Timeline
Vocabulary
Video
Assessment
Assessments
At the end of each lesson, the student is presented with an assessment to evaluate their understanding of the content. Assessments are a combination of multiple choice, venn diagrams, written answers and essays that are aligned to the State Standards.
Multiple Choice
Venn Diagrams
Written Answers
Essays
With different Assessment Types, as a Teacher you will be able to review the assessment types, provide teacher responses, allow retakes and score each assessment individually with full control.
Review Assessments
Teacher Responses
Allow Retakes
Score Assessment
Clear instructions and tips aid students in strengthening their essay writing skills preparing them for state tests.
Students can return to the lesson during the assessment to review or research their answers and return to the assessment to respond. This practice will help cultivate their comprehension and critical thinking skills preparing them for 8th grade U.S. History and other state assessments.
Students do not have to complete the assessment in one sitting and can return to it at will before submitting to teacher. Once submitted the multiple-choice questions are automatically scored and students can see which questions they answered incorrectly.
Teacher review, Reports and Messaging system
The teacher will receive a notice that the student has completed the assessment and be able to see their score for multiple choice questions then evaluate their written answers and essays. Teachers will have an example of what the student should have included in their answers or essays. She can assign a grade which will keep a running average as the student moves through the program. She can then ping the student to give congratulations or to retake the assessment and give guidance on how to alter their work.
Teacher & Student Grading
If the student successfully completes the lesson and has passed the assessment a green check will show on their Lessons Dashboard. If they have not passed the assessment or a retake has been ordered, a red check appears. Once they go back a successfully retake assessment, the red check is replaced with green.
Questions are aligned to State Standards and teacher can see a chart that shows if student has mastered the skill.
The teacher can review other analytics provided to see how much time the student has spent in the program and how that time was spent in the different sections.
There are multiple hierarchies provided so student progress can be seen at various levels from classroom to district level.