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Session 1 - Wednesday, 22 Jan
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- Extension activities
- Social media: Find three social media artifacts that you might use to teach geography. Try Flickr, YouTube, Instagram – I'm not picky
- Scaffolded geocache
- Download and install this app on your phone: My GPS Coordinates (Android, iOS)
- Go outside and start the app.
- Figure out which way is north; take ten big steps. Which way did your latitude change? Why?
- Take ten big steps to the east. Which way did your longitude change? Why?
- If you are really committed to this bit, get some sidewalk chalk and draw out a compass rose. Include the coordinates. Then go find a target and note its its coordinates. Get a friend or family member to start at the compass rose with you and then go locate the target, using the coordinates.
- Community needs activity: Grab your phone and go outside. See if you can document one or more resources within walking distance of your house for meeting the following community needs
- Shelter
- Food
- Water
- Transportation
- Communication
- Sanitation & hygiene
- Governance
- Spirituality
- Safety
- Medical care
- Education
- Recreation & leisure
- Reading
- Geography standards: PDE, C3 (see CourseSite folder)
- If you liked the scaffolded geocache: Hammond, Bodzin, & Stanlick, 2014
- If you liked the community needs activity: Zoning & Built Environment manuscript
- If you liked the Walking to Water activity...do you want to write an article about it? Would be happy to help. (BTW, I also need to write a manuscript about the school districts & diversity activity)
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Before class
- Complete reading
- Complete post-class activities, above
During class (abbreviated session! Just 2:00-3:00! -brief ppt here)
- First, note that I expanded the Walking to Water stuff – see additional story maps, plus sandbox map on Bethlehem's water sources. Reproducing that info:
- Instructional frame: Check out this Story Map about water scarcity, created by a local teacher; he then created a second Story Map on Access to Water (for various purposes: drinking, hand water, sanitation)
- And this thing keeps getting bigger! Because the students had zero concept of where their water came from, I made a map of water sources for Bethlehem
- Reviewing post-class activities from last week
- Social media share?
- Any fun with smartphone-based GPS? Scaffolded geocache concept?
- Any fun with community needs?
- Time permitting: I have a bee in my bonnet, and the only place it really fits is in geography education
- Microteaching discussion
- We have to do it, apparently – that's how we will satisfy our Stage 3 hours.
- So: Pick something from your unit plan; test-drive it with us. VERY low threshold
- Do you want me to model??
- Timing?
After class
- Read Chapin Ch. 9 – I'm going to have to do a more textbook-centered treatment of econ...
- Read Econ standards in CourseSite folder
- Work on instructional unit