weeks: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 -13 - 14 - 15
Week 1 - Tuesday, 29 Aug
Before class
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- Housekeeping; checking in on any calendar events that tie in with social studies content....
- Conceptual work: More geography activities, working towards different stances
- demo: Stack the Countries (see also Stack the States)
- demo: What's in a (state) name? We'll run this on our JamBoard; I also have some other materials for a slightly different version linked from here: Computational thinking & social studies.
- Discussion: Teacher stances – what do they think social studies is for? What does this look like in terms of geography education?
- demo: Weaving the Globe – I'll be showing-and-telling, but feel free to download and play around with this Google Earth file as well. This is adapted from an old lesson that I found in a back issue of Social Education.
- demo: 'Transforming the Globe', borrowed from this lesson plan. If you want to go further with this idea, try this video: The Impossible Map (1947)
- If you have a similar sense of humor to me, this will make you laugh every time: What your favorite map projection says about you (xkcd)
- maps as tools for all three stances + maps that exclude as well as include
- now you produce something: We'll work through the first few steps of the Whose Land? activity
- Closure
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- Housekeeping – questions / comments about curriculum map? Touching on next upcoming assignment, instructional unit overview
- Some stage-setting as we sneak up on history ed...
- ...but not before some last comments about civics ed
- Getting into history ed
- First, an experience for us as adult learners: The Story of Aaron
- (If you want to go further with this type of source, here's where I got the materials used in this activity: http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/explore.html)
- History vs. history education – some attempted demonstrations of the differences
- Emmanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware / "heroic narrative" version of US history
- StoryMap about signers of the Declaration of Independence, viewed through their history enslavement
- William Penn & enslavement
- "History of immigration to America" activity
- History education...is either pro-democracy or pro-authoritarian??
- I might play some snippets of this video about the PA Capitol Building in Harrisburg:
- Closure
- First, an experience for us as adult learners: The Story of Aaron
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Before class
- Bring in show-and-tell for your unit!
- If you haven't already, write up & submit microteaching reflection
- Complete & turn in end-of-semester assignments
- Complete reading
- Download econ ed resources
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- Checking in on end-of-unit assignments
- Does anyone need some refreshers / reminders on portfolio updating??
- Show-and-tell time!
- One last soapbox moment from me: Science and social studies should be friends!
- Slides
- Interactive map I'll use to unpack the cholera outbreak / analysis / resolution
- Bringing us to closure on our semester
- (Brief discussion of the importance of ritual / marking transitions)
- Prompts for us
- Why become a teacher?
- What will help you stay a teacher for all or most of your working career?
- And a silly ritual that I like to employ at the end of classes
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