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Session 1 - Wednesday, 3 Feb
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- Getting into geography education. Here are a few links that will be handy
- I'll be referencing my "What's in a (State) Name?" activity – see it halfway down this page on computational thinking.
- Some maps I'm working on for a 9th grade social studies class in Philadelphia
- Philadelphia neighborhoods – what are they? Where are they? What are they called?? https://arcg.is/0aKeOT
- Sample student maps of neighborhood inventory – I can only share this one: https://arcg.is/m0iX10
- Regions of the United States ... how to define them? https://arcg.is/0fnCSj0
- ...and for when folks are really ready to get into geospatial inquiry: looking at the legacy of redlining, urban heat islands, gentrification.... https://arcg.is/1KW58u0
- Some tools for geography education
- Google Earth = free, beautiful, and great for getting a sense of place: https://www.google.com/earth/ --note that it can also run via a browser, but I think the client-side version gives you more options
- Lehigh's ArcGIS Online server: https://lu.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html --note that you can get this for free as a K-12 teacher. Lehigh (and govts and businesses) has to pay for it.
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- More geography activities!
- Sketchmaps: Pick TWO of the following and make a sketchmap – no more than 5 minutes each
- Map of Mountaintop campus
- Map of Southside Bethlehem
- Map of the Lehigh Valley
- Map of the United States
- Map of the world
- Types of maps – I posted a page of links; please explore each and identify what type of map you're seeing in each set. We will discuss at our next class meeting
- Map projections – read this page that I created for TLT 368
- Sketchmaps: Pick TWO of the following and make a sketchmap – no more than 5 minutes each
- Reading
- Chapin, Ch. 8
- Materials about writing objectives (see CourseSite for today's session)
- optional: Alibrandi & Sarnoff, 2006 – I found this very influential in my thinking about what could/should be done with geospatial tools in a social studies class
- Assignment: THINK ABOUT and/or work on unit overview; I've moved back the deadline
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- Prep your micro-teaching!
- Work on your final assignments! (HTCE, instructional unit)
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Before class
- Prep microteaching!
During class
- Microteaching
- Michael B
- Emily D
- Will K
- Discussing instructional unit expectations – see folder in CourseSite for sample unit, rubric for scoring instructional unit
After class
- Wrap up final assignments!