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- Reading
- Civics standards: PDE, C3 – read and mark up!
- Chapin, Ch. 7 (Civic Education and Global Education)
- Optional: Fallace, 2010 (written for professors, not students, but this is the origin / parallel-thinking of the three stances framework)
- Assignments
- Complete and turn in first installment of Fieldwork (just a short statement)
- Complete WTL in CourseSite
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Before class
- Complete reading. Please *DO* mark up the civics standards. This is a bigger deal than usual!!
- Complete WTL
- Turn in update on your fieldwork
During class (ppt)
- Any probs with fieldwork update?
- More civics
- Why is it special?
- What about stances?
- Some civics methods / materials
- 'Bill of Rights bingo' activity
- Rawls' "Veil of Ignorance" prompt
- WebGIS of LV area school districts (requires Lehigh login, I think?)
- GapMinder.org; particularly their Dollar Street database
- Another school district-oriented lesson: Mock school board hearing
- Project Citizen: official explanatory video from Center for Civic Ed
- ...and a sidebar on the stuff I've been messing about with on computational thinking. A couple of the activities are civics-focused, so why not?
- Women serving in the US House of Representatives
- A spreadsheet of selected US population data, 1920-2010
- Closure: Think about microteaching!
After class
- Reading
- Civics standards: PDE, C3 – read and mark up!
- Westheimer & Kahne, 2004
- Heilman, 2010
- Passe, 2010
- Project Citizen videos
- Assignments
- Complete and turn in Course Plan #2
- Complete WTL in CourseSite
- Start thinking about microteaching! When you want to do it, what you want to teach