TLT 412, Social Studies in preK through 4th grade (Fall 2015)

Dates/times/locations

• Course meets Mondays, 4-7 pm

• Iacocca Hall, room E-104

• First class = Mon, Aug 24; Last class = Mon, Nov 30; class meets on Labor Day, Mon, Sep 2.

Topics/assignments

• Syllabus (pdf)

• Course record (an ongoing list of class sessions, resources, etc.--the enacted curriculum)

Toolbox

• Lehigh's content management system: coursesite.lehigh.edu.

• course bookmarks (a list of potentially useful resources)

• APA help: delicious.com/tchammond/APA.

• List of social studies journals

  • Available online

    • Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education: Social studies section

    • Social Studies Research and Practice

    • Journal of Social Studies Research

    • Canadian Social Studies

    • Theory and Research in Social Education (courtesy of the University of South Florida – thanks!! – and covers years 1973-2002)

  • Available through the Lehigh Library

    • The Social Studies (fulltext available online)

    • The History Teacher (fulltext available online)

    • The Elementary School Journal (fulltext up to 2004; note that they periodically have special issues on topics like social studies)

• Useful tech links

  • Lehigh wireless

  • Lehigh printers

  • Lehigh VPN

  • SSH 3.2 (Lehigh's licensed secure FTP client)

  • Lehigh's digital portfolio community (aka Mahara).

    • How-to materials for using the Mahara portfolio system.

  • Lehigh's Google Docs server.