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Session 1 - Monday, 24 Aug

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• Housekeeping:
  • HTCE questions? Sharing a favorite image
  • OIM look-ahead – make sure you know what's different about submit #2!
  • And you have some unusual homework between now and next Monday
    • Explore a specific LUAG web exhibit (https://luag.lehigh.edu/exhibitions/doing-democracy-photography-george-stephanopoulos-collection)
    • Do some hands-on work with a geospatial app
• Conceptual work – again, we won't get all the way through this....
  • Geography framing: Five Themes vs. Four chunks. I prepared a JamBoard (note new features!!) on play a bit with these topics.
    • Sample geography lessons / materials
      • Community helpers...vs community resources, community needs
        • Web map of collected community resources data
        • Web map of assembled community resources data
      • A static lesson (or 'canned' lesson) on lat/lon...vs a scaffolded geocache
      • A static data display vs. gapminder.com
        • For elementary purposes, the Dollar Street database is particularly awesome
    • 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. (While you're there: Note that it's billed as social studies AND science. Geography is the place where social studies starts to overlap with earth science / environmental science / physical science.
      • If you want to see the Flickr map I used, it's here: https://www.flickr.com/map – search 'Islam' or something else with a strong cultural gradient: 'mosque', for example.
    • 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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• We're starting off with a guest speaker! We'll be discussing the Lehigh University Art Galleries, but particularly this exhibit: https://luag.lehigh.edu/exhibitions/doing-democracy-photography-george-stephanopoulos-collection
• A little pause for reflection on methods & geography – we'll re-visit our JamBoard of methods for this
• Tools of geography: Lots of stuff here, but with emphasis on...
  
  • How about the latitude & longitude activity I had you guys do outside of class this past week?
  • And a lesson plan that I've slightly adapted: The Grapefruit Activity. (While you're there: Note that it's billed as social studies AND science. Geography is the place where social studies starts to overlap with earth science / environmental science / physical science.)
  • What this lesson has to do with: Map projections
    • A resource that links that same lesson to a larger discussion of map projections: Flattening Earth
    • Here's a wiki page that I use for this topic when teaching the Geospatial Tools class
    • A much nicer treatment is here: Map Projections
    • ...and if you just want to bathe in beautiful maps, here you go: Map Projections in ArcGIS
  • If you want to see the Flickr map I used, it's here: https://www.flickr.com/map – search 'Islam' or something else with a strong cultural gradient: 'mosque', for example.
• 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: Set of YouTube videos, plus some web images and materials drawn from the Teachers Curriculum Institute geography lessons
• 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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• Work on instructional unit. If you can: Turn it in! If not: Turn it in next week or (worst case scenario) by December 10
• Complete any other remaining assignments (ex: History Through a Child's Eyes) and turn in ASAP
• Don't forget to check out the assessment materials in CourseSite!

During class (ppt)

• Conceptual work: Digging into economics
  • What is economics and why isn't it more prominently featured?
    • 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 (OSURF) 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 – sticker selection
    • And now for a slam-dunk: A lesson adapted from Play-Doh economics.
  • Putting our class sessions to bed – so much more to be learned!
    • Content goes on forever
    • Unfolding pedagogical interests – see, for example, growing support for anti-racist social studies content: Signers of the Declaration of Independence & enslavement
    • Rising stakes of our current political situation (specifically, the loser's veto power in a post-election transition)
    • Re-visiting 'What is the purpose of social studies?' I think it's time to add: Pro-democracy social studies education

After class

• Final textbook chapter: Maxim, Ch. 12
• Read over econ standards
• Read one or more econ pieces; stow the rest away for future reference! Strongly  recommend keeping the Play-Doh Economics materials somewhere that you know you can find them....
• Complete remaining major assignments
• Is anyone interested in office hours / bonus session next Monday? I'll be online if you want to consult / discuss

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(Any final  outstanding work due: Monday, 10 14 December)