TLT 412, Fall 2024 - Course record

Owned by Tom Hammond
Last updated: Sep 09, 2024
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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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Week 1 - Thursday, 29 Aug

Before class 

  • Buy a copy of the textbook (Maxim, 2017, Dynamic Social Studies for Constructivist Classrooms; currently in 11th edition, but earlier editions are fine). Amazon has it; Lehigh bookstore should as well 

  • Cruise this wiki and the CourseSite.

  • Preview the syllabus. We will discuss it during class.

During class (ppt; whiteboard)

After class

  • Reading

    • (Borrow something from me! Read or skim it! Talk about it next week!)

    • Maxim, Ch. 1 (What is?)

  • Assignments

    • WTL for this week: What is the purpose of 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) 

Week 2 - Thursday, 5 Sep

Before class 

  • Complete reading

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

  • Do the CourseSite updating (it helps me remember names/faces!)

  • Think ahead on your assignments

During class (ppt)

  • Starting off with something fun: A scavenger hunt! About the built environment

    • (I'll have this printed out, but here's a handout; feel free to take it & adapt to your own teaching, if you wish)

    • (Feel free to email me your photos so I can share them; you can also join the Zoom URL from your device to show)

    • (And here's a fancier version of this activity, one that uses ArcGIS Online & the Field Maps app to do the activity: )

  • De-brief of the activity – how is this social studies? What kind of social studies?  

  • Social studies as a set of related social science disciplines – makes it easy for us, largely irrelevant to students. Just make it interesting for students; don't tie yourself up in knots about serving the discipline

  • Among the big four, we are starting with GEOGRAPHY

    • Why start with geography?

    • What is geography, anyway?

    • A look at some geography standards

  • Wading into social studies methods

  • Time for another geography method: Sketchmaps

  • Purpose(s) of social studies

  • Discussion of OIM #1

  • ...can we meet early next week??

After class

  • 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

Week 3 - Thursday, 12 Sep

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 – .  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: )

  • 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: )

  • 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.

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