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Thursdays, 7:15-9:55 in Iacocca Hall room A-235
First class = Thur, 29 Aug; last class = Thur, 5 Dec; no class on 28 Nov (Thanksgiving) – voter registration deadline in Pennsylvania = Mon, 21 Oct; check your voter registration status at https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/Pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx

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• Reading

  • Maxim, ch. 8 (geography)

  • PDE geography standards (download these to a convenient folder; you'll need to refer to them)

  • C3 framework, geography section (again, download to a convenient spot...)

  • NCSS, 2009 (powerful and purposeful elementary social studies)

• Assignments

  • Complete & bring in OIM #1; be prepared to show-and-tell!

  • Complete this Google Form for an in-class demo of a lesson called "Weaving the Globe" (form)

  • Complete WTL for week 2

Before class 

• Complete Google Form on shoes/textile (link above)

• Complete reading

• Don't forget to do the WTL in CourseSite!

• Complete & bring in OIM #1

During class (ppt)

• Meet in lobby of Iaccoca at 6:30! We'll start from there

• First thing tonight = scaffolded geocache. I will share starting materials here; if you want the full set, just ask

  • Handout with simple visual intro to lat/lon

  • List of coordinates for starting point, targets, and finish location

  • Decision-making scaffold, if anyone needs it

  • (If I were teaching this with elementary students: I'd actually start with this photoset to see locations along the Equator & Prime Meridian before going outside) 

  • (Alternatively: Here's a webpage [StoryMap] with info about latitude & longitude. This was written for older folks, not elementary students, but it has the images I would use with elementary students. Note that it also has embedded images on the map.)

  • (Since this activity does lots work in Google Earth: I encourage you to download Google Earth onto your laptop – https://www.google.com/earth/versions/ .  It's WAY more powerful as a downloaded program than something that runs in your browser.)

  • (And if you want to get into 'real' geocaching, go here: https://www.geocaching.com/play )

• Discussing geography standards – quick look at PDE vs. Five Themes

• Quick look at JamBoard of methods – we have some updating to do!

• Potentially useful framework for thinking about your instructional decision-making: TPACK

• (Additional supporting example of how technology can intersect with content and pedagogy: https://arcg.is/0LiKD1 )

• Sharing OIM #1

• More updating of JamBoard!

• Closure

After class

• Reading

  • Barton & Levstik, 1996 - skim to get the idea about how to build image set for HTCE assignment

  • Optional: If you liked the scaffolded geocache, save a copy of Hammond et al., 2014

• Assignments

  • Prepare & turn in HTCE image set; see syllabus for details

  • WTL on school activities that relate to calendar events: Sept 11, Constitution Day, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc.

Before class 

• Complete reading

• Don't forget to do the WTL in CourseSite!

• Complete & turn in HTCE prep assignment

During class (ppt)

• 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' (I also call it ‘mapping an orange’), 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

After class

• Reading: Gaudelli & Laverty, 2017

• Assignments

  • WTL = complete & share your "Whose Land?" map & reflection

  • Complete & turn in your OIM #2