TLT 412, Fall 2021 - Course record
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Session 1 - Monday, 23 Aug
Before class
Buy a copy of the textbook (Maxim, 2017, Dynamic Social Studies for Constructivist Classrooms). Amazon has it
Cruise this wiki and the CourseSite.
Preview the syllabus. We will discuss it during class.
During class ()
Housekeeping
Introductions
Looking at our toolbox: CourseSite, wiki, bookmarks, etc.
Reviewing syllabus
Assignments and grading
First step: Completing your first WTL entries
Questions thus far?
Conceptual work
What is social studies? Starter activity
Extension: What if we looked at Native American settlements? Two examples: Cahokia, Manhattan. What else might you add?
Social studies as a set of disciplines vs. social studies as something bigger, more integrated
Why we need to push ourselves in this class: Take a brief visit to the teacher store
Closure
Review of what's due next week – reminder about filling in info for "Weaving the Globe"
Review of what's where (wiki, CourseSite)
Any questions?
Stick around for portfolio work
After class
Reading
Maxim, Ch. 1 (What is?)
Gaudelli & Laverty, 2017 (as an overview and critique of the field – if nothing else, this should motivate you to be an informed, critical consumer of social studies materials. Also note historical connection with Dewey...and the scholarly record of the Lehigh COE dean !)
NCSS, 2009
Assignments
WTL – what is the purpose of the curriculum??
Update your profile in CourseSite to include your picture
Starting planning out your upcoming assignments: Original Instructional Materials product #1, who you'll interview for HTCE, etc.
Bookmark class websites on your computer (e.g., CourseSite, relevant wiki pages)
Input your portfolio URL ASAP
PICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING
Show up early & in-person (!) to next week's class: meet at 5:30 in the front lobby of Iacocca to do an outdoor activity.
Do the 'at home' version, sort of
Download and install this app on your phone: My GPS Coordinates (Android, iOS)
Go outside and start the app.
Figure out which way is north; take ten big steps. Which way did your latitude change? Why?
Take ten big steps to the east. Which way did your longitude change? Why?
If you are really committed to this bit, get some sidewalk chalk and draw out a compass rose. Include the coordinates. Then go find a target and note its coordinates. Get a friend or family member to start at the compass rose with you and then go locate the target, using the coordinates.
If you'd like to find a target placed by someone else, go to geocaching.com, create an account, and look up nearby geocaches. Note: The accuracy of the cellphone app is probably not good enough to actually locate a geocache – you'll be searching over too large of an area. Instead, you might need to use an actual, dedicated GPS unit. I have some that you can borrow if you like.
Session 2 - Monday, August 30
Before class
Complete reading
Complete WTL
Think ahead: What do you want to do for your Original Instructional Materials assignments? Are you able to find a preK-4 student to interview for the HTCE?
During class ()
Conceptual work
Scaffolded geocache de-brief
Handouts: ; ; lat-lon StoryMap; for elem students
(There are also some associated Google Earth files; ask me and I'll provide them)
Comparison point for 'real' geocaching: 'Mother of all KINDER' Cache on South Mountain
And if you want to read about this in greater detail: See Hammond, Bodzin, & Stanlick, 2014 article in CourseSite.
Touching back on last Monday's concepts: What is social studies?
Getting started in GEOGRAPHY
Three stances towards social studies education
Three quick geography methods to illustrate
JamBoard file used in the first two
Google Earth file used in the third one
Standards for social studies (just a quick look)
Curriculum frameworks for social studies (again, a quick look)
Discussion of student schema in social studies
Time permitting: Going further on standards & curriculum frameworks, NCSS statement, etc.
Closure: Can you name and organize the instructional methods we used tonight? I have another JamBoard for this.
After class
Session 3 - Monday, 6 Sep
Before class
Complete reading
Complete and bring in your Original Instructional Material assignment #1, have it ready for class. (But don't forget to also upload it to CourseSite!)
Complete the WTL
During class ()
Housekeeping
Original instructional materials work
Getting ready to share our OIP #1s
Sharing
Talking about OIM #2:
My example: A sequence of instruction on Community Needs & Community Resources.
Opening worksheet – the needs I have in mind are on the second page... – the needs I have in mind are on the second page...
Set of QR codes that I put up around the building
Google Earth overlay that shows these resources in the community
FYI: I created this with Julie Oltman, who teaches our geospatial tools class. If you haven't checked it out before, it's a great opportunity to learn more about Google Earth, ArcGIS, augmented reality, virtual reality, and more!
Why not try...
...a new-to-you technology – Google Earth? Augmented reality? ArcGIS?
...a different lens – traditional vs. disciplinary vs. student-centered?
...a different content area (history, econ, geo, civics) – mix it up! Stretch your thinking and your tech skills!
Conceptual work
What's new in our instructional methods toolbox? Let's revisit our recurring JamBoard of methods. Which of these are specific to geography?
Taking a look at the geography ed resources you identified after last week's class
Taking a look at curriculum and standards for geography
C3's geography section
NCGE's Geography for Life
PDE's straddle of Five Themes and a more disciplinary approach
(What's this about the Five Themes?)
A at CSU Stanislaus
(And because I can never resist: Check out these these user-generated videos on the Five Themes)
Digging into geography's Big Ideas
Natural environment vs. built environment
Physical geography vs. political, economic, or human geography
Human-environment interaction
Tools of geographic representation: maps and globes, yes, but also GPS, GIS, remote sensing, etc. (For example, here's a map of flood gauges I made for students at a school I'm working with – super, super interesting stuff that I never thought about before this latest storm: https://arcg.is/1HiqTW)
Closure: Since we already talked about methods, let's re-visit the concept of the three possible teachers' stances (traditional, disciplinary, community-focused). Which of these do you think is privileged by the standards documents?
After class
Reading
Review Geography standards: PDE, C3; see other nat’l orgs as you see fit
Read Barton & Levstik, 1996 (at least to the point where you understand context of HTCE assignment)
Getting more context on social studies curriculum: skim Brophy & Alleman, 2002, and Wade, 2002.
Assignments
Complete and turn in HTCE prep work
WTL
Work on original instructional materials assignment, product #2
Please consider sharing your OIM #1 by uploading to the Forum in CourseSite for this week’s class
...and an invitation! If you'd like to try out the 'community resources, community needs' activity, I have set up a version that you can do at home
It requires the Collector app from Esri – you'll need to install this on your phone
...and the data you input will be visible / viewable on this map.
Session 4 - Monday, 13 Sep
Before class
Complete reading
Prepare and turn in HTCE prep
Complete WTL
During class ()
After class
Reading
If you haven't already: Read through PDE ELPS, or at least the stuff I extracted for social studies.
Assignments
Complete & turn in OIP #2. (If you need help thinking of something: re-read Keeler & Langhorst, 2008)
WTL – this is a two-part process
First, make a 'Whose Land?' map, following my instructions. (This requires you to use your Lehigh account to log into lu.maps.arcgis.com)
Save your map and either link or place a screenshot in this week's WTL forum. I'll model it.
Bring to class next week: A citrus fruit, unpeeled! I recommend a clementine, since they're easy to peel....
Session 5 - Monday, 20 Sep
Before class
Complete reading
Complete WTL
Prepare and turn in OIM #2
During class ()
A little pause for reflection on methods & geography – we'll re-visit our JamBoard of methods for this, plus dip into your WTL work on geography, your OIMs, etc.
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
Physical geography: Not a perfect demonstration, but here's a Google Earth overlay that I created to divide continents into regions.
Human-environment interaction: Set of YouTube videos, plus some web images and materials drawn from the Teachers Curriculum Institute geography lessons
And a thing I'm introducing about the intersections of science & social studies, focusing on the bar-headed goose. I made a , if you want to play with it.
Closure
After class
Reading: Maxim, Ch. 4-5-6 – just get started on these, start digging into what Maxim has to say about pedagogy
Assignments
Start thinking about the curriculum map assignment!
WTL on geography & geography education take-aways
Session 6 - Monday, 27 Sep
Before class
Complete reading
Complete WTL
Work on curriculum map assignment – it's due next week!
During class ()
Housekeeping: Curriculum map assignment
Getting started with civics education
Why civics is special – I'll be referring to the practice questions for the USCIS test – go to https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/2020test
Two civics activities to discuss
Government game for Southside Bethlehem – see map of locations; this is played using the app ActionBound (ActionBound.org)
Community needs, community resources – we've referred to this before; see output map:
https://arcg.is/0HDuaC; I built it using ArcGIS Online.
Closure
After class
Reading: Standards + Maxim, Ch. 9 (civics)
WTL on civics ed standards
Complete and turn in the curriculum map assignment – don't forget the reflection!
Session 7 - Monday, 4 October
Before class
Complete and turn in your curriculum map assignment – and the reflection!
Complete reading
Complete WTL
During class ()
Housekeeping
Anything to report on the curriculum map assignment?
And: We are now officially on our own for the Field Work assignment. We need to find a replacement...so let's discuss?
Moving ahead with civics ed
Why is civics special, again?
Thinking a bit on civics methods ...let's start building out a new section of our JamBoard file, no?
And a new demo, this time looking at branches of government two different ways
A general pedagogy thing: Giving, Prompting, Making
Civics ed stances (traditional vs. disciplinary vs. community-oriented)
'What kind of citizen?' framing for civics standards
Putting together Giving-Prompting-Making and civics ed / civics stances / what kind of citizen
One more civics ed resource (getting back to games!): iCivics.org
Civics ed as the essential discipline
Historical assertions
Civics and engineering?
Civics as the guardrail against a failed society
Closure
After class
No class meeting next week!
...but please do look ahead at the instructional unit assignment and check out some of the resources I've posted under the following week
WTL on the purpose of civics ed, assuming that we got to that point
Reading
skim over Hammond & Manfra, 2009 (Giving-Prompting-Making)
optional: Westheimer & Kahne, 2004 (What kind of citizen?)
Monday, October 11 - no class!
Session 8 - Monday, October 18
Before class
Complete readings
Look at instructional planning materials I posted in CourseSite for the week of October 11
During class – no ppt tonight, just running things from this wiki
After class
Complete WTL about civics, civic education
Fill out form to sign up for a microteaching time slot
Complete and turn in your instructional unit overview
Watch for an email from me about next Monday's history game on the Northside; respond to let me know who's coming
Session 9 - Monday, October 25
Before class
Complete WTL
Fill out microteaching sequence form
Let me know if you plan to meet up for the augmented reality game at Moravian Academy! It's used for teaching 2nd graders about colonial history
During class ()
Housekeeping
Getting microteaching organized
Where things stand with curriculum map grading
Field work substitution – I wrote up the alternative assignment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FbD8a0EMJBhim1mcLH838Q7B9Do9GKe6bZ-czcswSlk/edit?usp=sharing
General plan for turning things in from here to the end of the semester: Pace yourself; there are no hard-and-fast due dates except for the end of the semester
Conceptual work
Geography vs. civics vs. history ed
Discussion of primary sources – let's jump over to our JamBoard for this
Looking at a specific set of primary sources. I'm drawing from this set at the Geography of Slavery database from the Virginia Center for Digital History
Brief discussion of history standards
Looking at some additional images. These are drawn from the National Archives' DocsTeach database, specifically the work of Lewis Hine. Here's an example of an activity built using one of his photos: https://www.docsteach.org/activities/student/photographer-lewis-hine
Discussion of history stances
Different stances → different sorts of history education
Closure
After class
Reading
History standards (see folder in CourseSite)
Maxim, Ch. 9 (history ed)
Read 1 additional history ed piece (see options in CourseSite)
Assignments
If you’re due up for microteaching, prepare!
WTL on Wikipedia…I have a thing for Wikipedia.
Session 10 - Monday, November 1
Before class
IF YOU CAN, prepare and turn in your HTCE paper
Work on Field Work replacement assignment – as a refresher here are the instructions
If you're microteaching, prep! Please share your materials ahead of time in the forum provided in CourseSite
Complete WTL on Wikipedia
Complete reading
During class (no ppt – just running from the wiki for tonight)
Microteaching
Natalie
Bella
Conceptual work
Some conventional history ed methods
Maps, of course, just like in geography...but also historical maps! See, for example, the Library of Congress' collection of Sanborn maps – Here's the collection for Bethlehem, 1892