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• Housekeeping: OIM work, HTCE
• Conceptual work
  • Quickly before the light disappears: Scaffolded geocache
    • If you're interested, here's a website for REAL geocaching: https://www.geocaching.com/play
  • 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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• Housekeeping
  • Portfolio how-to time at end of class
• Conceptual work: Social studies and integration
  • Fine arts
    • 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 had a group blog focusing on arts integration – pretty cool stuff; just wish it lasted longer than six months! 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, etcCurriculum Pathways, for example.
      • 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.portal – see what's available in their 'Materials & Resources' page and integrate SS into them
        • 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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