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• Housekeeping: OIM work, HTCE
• Conceptual work
  • Geography framing: Five Themes vs. Four chunks
    • Tools of geography: Lots of stuff here, but with emphasis on...
      
      • Map projections
      • And a lesson plan that I've slightly adapted: The Grapefruit Activity.
      • If you want to see the Flickr map I used, it's here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/islam/map?&fLat=38.5481&fLon=4.0429&zl=3
    • Physical geography: Not a perfect demonstration, but here's a Google Earth overlay that I created to divide continents into regions.
    • Human geography: Families and Food activity. This is material borrowed from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. 
    • Human-environment interaction: Population density activities / materials
      • • Set of YouTube videos
        • Population density enactive, adapted from the Teachers Curriculum Institute geography lessons.
        • Other visual materials on population in this place, time.
    • Social studies and (de-)"othering"
      • Chimamanda Adichie's TED talk. I'll just play a few bits.
      • Single stories in social studies contexts
        • Maps
        • Textbooks
      • Attending to multiple stories: Lots of different ways are possible, but I'll single out the Families Of the World video series as one way of introducing the idea.
• Closure

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Before class

• Complete reading
• Complete and turn in your fieldwork paper
• If it's your turn to microteaching, prepare! If you already did your microteaching, work on your reflection

During class (ppt)

• Housekeeping
• Microteaching
  • Janelle J.
  • Elizabeth F.
• Conceptual work
• Closure

After class

• Reading
• Assignments: Digging into economics
  • What is economics and why isn't it in our textbook?
    • A couple of counter-examples. One isn't really economics, and the other one is...painful. It's econ, but it's painful.
      • http://www.moneyinstructor.com/coins.asp
      • http://www.umsl.edu/~wpockets/clubhouse/library/WillSavesForTheStars/01.htm
    • And an example, albeit an outside-the-box out: Re-purposing children's literature. Two examples here
      • A selection from Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?
      • A book written to explain what microfinance is: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
  • Why this is a crying shame: Econ is fun, econ is practical, econ is important, econ integrates beautifully. (And it's in the PDE standards)Some econ resources
  • • Ohio State University Research Foundation materials
    • Day, 2006: What is Economics?
    • VanFossen, 2003: suggestions for teaching econ in elementary SS Council Economic Education
    • • website.
      • standards.
      • lesson plan database: EconEd Link.
    • The classic: Play Doh Economics (to be demo'd in a few minutes)
    Some econ activities
    • Warm up: The economics of candy consumption
    • And now for a slam-dunk: A lesson adapted from Play-Doh economics.
• Closure

After class

• Reading
  • Maxim, Ch. 11
  • Read, or at least save, the econ materials in CourseSite. You don't need to read these immediately, but do save them for future reference. They're extremely useful, and they're rare!
• Assignments
  • Wrap up whatever you haven't finished: HTCE, field paper
  • Work on final unit

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