ED 195 Student Page

Name	E-mail
Kip Altman	ckaltman@yahoo.com
Mott Altman	maltman@greenville.k12.sc.us
Kati Bridges	kbridges@greenville.k12.sc.us
Donna Burgess	dburgess@greenville.k12.sc.us
Ashley Causey	acausey@greenville.k12.sc.us
Starr Gillespie	agillesp@greenville.k12.sc.us
Jean Hall	jhall@greenville.k12.sc.us
Lynne Kirby	lkirby@greenville.k12.sc.us
Karen Metcalf	kmetcalf@greenville.k12.sc.us
Holli Powell	hpowell@greenville.k12.sc.us
Timothy Sanford	tjsanford@greenville.k12.sc.us
Suzanne Shuler	sshuler@greenville.k12.sc.us
Priscilla Solomon	dragonwing@earthtones.com

January 6:Welcome to class! I am looking very much forward to working with you this term.

Multiple Intelligences Activity

Multiple Intelligences (from Education World)

Multiple Intelligence Sites:

World War II:
Valour and Horror
WWII Resources
WWII Timeline

Ancient Greece:
Daily Life in Ancient Greece

Map Skills:

Mapquest
Boatsafe.com
Map Skills and Mileage Charts

January 8: Today we are going to be talking about social studies: what it is, what it isn't, and what makes it such a difficult subject to teach effectively.

Illinois Loop (social studies controversy articles)
NCSS
SCCSS

Lessons to Evaluate:

Funeral Customs
State Geography
The Five Themes of Geography
The War of 1812 in the News

January 13:Today we will look at content focusing on the influence of textbooks as well as South Carolina standards.
Sixth Grade History Humor

Geography Survey

Naturalization- Self-Test

SC Textbooks

PACT Books (Triumph Learning)

SC State Social Studies Page
State Adopted Social Studies Textbooks
Social Studies Standards Timeline

January 15: Lesson evaluations are due. We will spend a BRIEF period discussing these lessons and then move to the issue of depth vs. breadth in teaching.

January 20: Today we will be talking about information from Stern, focusing on curriculum alignment and authentic instruction.

Problem of the Day: You are teaching a 6th grade Early Cultures class and you are trying to have your students accomplish SC standard 6.2.1: summarize the major ideas concerning the necessity and purposes of government. At your table, think of a way (some ways) that you may be able to accomplish this objective. Please keep in mind our discussion of Best Practices from last Thursday.

January 22: We will continue talking about authentic instruction, focusing in particular on creating rubrics. Conference-type presentations will be expanded on.

Problem of the Day: Create a rubric to accompany lesson plan (step 3) "Winning the Vote: How Americans Elect their President."

Winning the Vote (lesson plan)

Rubrics for Social Studies
Creating a Rubric
Rubistar
Rubrics.com

January 27- NO CLASS-ice.

January 29- Lots of procedural stuff to go through (SCCSS, resources, prof. development, etc.) We will also discuss "Best Practices in Geography" and spend time working on presentations.

CIA World Factbook
Geography Links (GGY 30)
Nationmaster
Population Pyramids

Problem of the Day: Discuss the strengths and weaknesses for each of the following pacing guides for teaching geography (Traditional schedule:)

Map/Globe Skills- 6 weeks
Physical Geography- 2 weeks
North America- 6 weeks
South America- 3 weeks
Europe- 4 weeks
Russia- 3 weeks
Middle East- 3 weeks
Africa- 3 weeks
Asia- 3 weeks
Australia/ Pacific- 3 weeks

The United States and Canada- 4 weeks
Latin America- 4 weeks
Europe- 4 weeks
Russia (and republics)- 4 weeks
SW Asia and N. Africa- 4 weeks
Subsaharan Africa- 5 weeks
Asia- 5 weeks
Australia and Oceania- 3 weeks

Basic Geography Skills (maps, globes, landforms, etc.)- 9 weeks
United States- 6 weeks (SC Geography, states and capitals, etc.)
Canada- 4 weeks
Mexico- 4 weeks
Central and South America- 4 weeks
Europe- 6 weeks

February 3- We will talk about "Best Practices" in the History classroom. We will also continue to work on presentations.

Problem of the Day: Discuss the draft for the proposed SC Scope and Sequence. What implications does this have for teaching History?

Novel Guides
Presidential Sound Clips
Voices from the Days of Slavery
World War II (PBS)

February 5- Presentations

1. Ashley

4. Lynne and Kati (Using Drama in the Social Studies Classroom)—“It was cool!!”

Problem of the Day: When asked about how classrooms of the future might appear, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had this to say:

“One of our issues as a society going forward is to teach kids to express themselves in the medium of their generation. For the better part of the past century, the medium was the printed page, whether it was a newspaper or a novel. People not only consumed; they authored. When people read novels, they wrote letters. The medium of our times is video and photography, but most of us are still consumers as opposed to being authors.

“We see things changing. We are doing more and more with movies and DVDs. The drive over the next 20 years is to integrate these multimedia tools to the point where people become authors in the medium of their day. We think there is tremendous power in this. You should see the movies that kids and teachers are making now. They make movies to sell an idea and to lead a team. I can show you a movie made by a sixth-grade teacher with her kids about learning the principles of geometry in a way that you will never forget. Or one by a high-school junior who felt passionately about women workers in sweatshops. When students are creating themselves, learning is taking place. And teachers will be at the epicenter of this. Anyone who believes differently has never had a good teacher. I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”

February 17- Discuss technology article (Brabec, Fisher, and Pitler); NETS standards; work on technology-rich lesson

February 19- IN MODULAR 5- present tech. rich lessons, evaluations, the future of middle level social studies