Page Comparison

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• Housekeeping
  
  • Introductions
  • Looking at our toolbox: CourseSite, wiki, bookmarks, etc.
  • Reviewing syllabus
    
    • Assignments and grading
    • First step: Completing your first WTL entries
  • Questions thus far?
• Conceptual work
  
  • What is social studies?
    
    • Jigsaw(-ish) / LGL activity
      
      • Form two groups
        
        • Group A: Use the collected memories from our WTL exercise. 
        • Group B-E: Gets everything else! 
      • Group: Look over your collection and create GROUPS of items that seem to be similar.
        
        • Group A.
        • Group B.
        • Group C.
        • Group D.
        • Group E.
      • Label: Identify each group by a short (1-4 word) label.
  • What is social studies methods?
    
    • Content?
    • Techniques?
    • Lesson planning?
  • Notes on the "unfunded mandates" in the class
    
  • Social studies / methods class and arts integration
  Methods class and portfolio : Portfolio updating
  • Who am I as a social studies educator? 
  • Further resources for social studies ed
    
    • Standards
      
      • PDE: Old standards and new standards are both available in CourseSite – look down at the bottom of the page.
      • National organizations. (Note the big four content areas, plus the umbrella/integrated organization, NCSS; the big new thing is the C3 framework)
    • Lesson plans & curricular materials
      
      • PDESAS
        
        • Curriculum in elementary social studies = pretty patchy. But do note the organizational scheme of Big Ideas, Essential Questions, Essential Concepts, etc.
        • Lesson plans, activities, etc. – be sure to start at the "Advanced Search" page.
      • Given the absence of unified curriculum at the PDE level, I've bookmarked a number of district-level curricula, both within Pennsylvania and elsewhere. 
      • Schools of California Online Resources for Education has some pretty useful stuff. 
      • The national organizations also feature important resources – for example, we'll be highlighting EconEdLink from the Council for Economic Education.
    • "Stuff"
      
      • Look through the course bookmarks; try concatenating terms (e.g., http://delicious.com/tchammond/TLT412+maps) or following tags to find what you need. 
      • Get comfy with fancy search engine work. For example, did you know that you can create your own customized search engine? 
      • Start bookmarking useful resources. For example, Google is (at the moment) hosting a bunch of images from LIFE.
• Closure
  
  • Review of what's due next week – reminder about filling in info for "Weaving the Globe"
  • Review of what's where (wiki, CourseSite)
  • Any questions?

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• Going outside: Teaching latitude and longitude with GPS units (and Google Earth...so there's an inside component, too!)
  
  • And if you want to do this kind of thing for real, see geocaching.com, and for your first cache, go find the one hidden on Mountaintop Campus.
• More location-aware technologies: Augmented reality activity on the history of Bethlehem Steel (courtesy of Megan Stotz)
• Video-conferencing for social studies! Let's talk to alumna Julie Ellis, currently talking to us from Hong Kong...in the future.
• Social studies and arts integration.
• Commencement exercise 

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