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• Complete reading

During class (ppt)

• Housekeeping
• Microteaching
  • Kealan
  • Leigh Ann
  • Jenn S. 
  • Andy M.
• Conceptual work
  • Economics in elementary ed
    • Center for Economic Education: website, standards, lesson database (see lefthand column for the elementary resources)
    • Play-doh Economics, available via ERIC.
  • Economics against the backdrop of American culture and economy.
  • Some thoughts about social studies and history, keying on Thanksgiving
• Closure

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• Complete reading

During class (ppt)

• Housekeeping
• Microteaching
  • Will Z.
  • Courtney D.
  • Erin T.
  • special guest microteacher: Brian S.
• Conceptual work: Social studies and integration
  • Fine arts
    • Arts integration requirements, paperwork – see links in CourseSite
    • PDE standards for fine arts and humanities: These are actually some of the finest standards I've seen. VERY thorough, fantastic attention to multiple aspects of the art experience (production, response, analysis), very deep social studies background! Respect.
    • Arts and social studies ed: Great match or perfect match? 
    • Focusing on Haitian art and music
      • Video of field workers singing.
      • Video of rara band from 2005. You might want to skip ahead to the halfway point, since the first part of the video is shot at night, very limited visuals. Awesome music, though. 
      • Two short folksongs (and accompanying discussion) from Mimi Barthelemy
      • De-brief: What did we learn? How was this important? Could we / should we have explored this content through other means? 
  • Groupwork on integration
    • Integrating social studies and fine arts
      • Links
        • Flickr.com (search for visual art from different cultures / regions / genres)
        • Youtube.com (search for video of dance, music)
        • Scholastic has a group blog focusing on arts integration – pretty cool stuff. Mine it for ideas that connect to social studies: http://blogs.scholastic.com/arts/. 
        • Examine the materials in the Library of Congress' American Memory project or in the LIFE Magazine image archive – how can they connect social studies and arts? 
      • Google Doc for arts integration: Put 2 or more ideas here–just a paragraph or so for each that describe the activity that you have in mind, the standards/objectives to be addressed, and links to relevant resources. PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS.
    • Integrating other content areas into social studies
      • Links
        • Brainstorm a lesson using this source material. (If you feel it's too easy or can't think of any ideas, try this version.)
        • Feel free to design something based off of our Weaving the Globe activity (kml file).
        • Pick any lessons from our 'Microteaching Materials' forum in CourseSite
        • Take a look at what PDE provides in its portal. For example, click on the link for 'Social Studies videos' from the Instruction page. You can also try looking in the 'Materials and Resources' section of the portal, but from what I've seen, there's not much there....
        • Look at any other repositories for social studies lesson plans/materials: Gateway to 21st Century Skills, Thinkfinity, SASPathways, etc.
      • Google Doc for integrating other content areas --> SS: Put 2 or more ideas here–just a paragraph or so for each that describe the activity that you have in mind, the standards/objectives to be addressed, and links to relevant resources. PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS.
    • Integrating social studies into other content areas
      • Links
        • Adapt this lesson plan.
        • Instructional materials available from the PDE/SAS portal
          • Videos linked from the 'Instruction' page
          • A smorgasbord of items linked from the 'Materials and Resources' part of the portal. I've linked you to the 'Advanced Search' page within this section – specify a grade level and content area, see what you get for math / science / ELA / etc.
        • Select any activity from this page of the NLVM and adapt it.
        • (etc.)
      • Google Doc for integrating SS –> other content areas: Put 2 or more ideas here–just a paragraph or so for each that describe the activity that you have in mind, the standards/objectives to be addressed, and links to relevant resources. PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS.
• Closure

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