Assignments for Elementary Social Studies 1 Social Studies Lesson Notebook Create a set of lessons that demonstrate the following Teaching specific content in each area Civics Economics History Geography Application of the following teaching strategies Pre guided post reading strategies to social studies textbook reading Specific mapping skills How to read graphs charts Contextualized mapping Graphic organizers Children s literature Youtube video or other streamlined video with pre guided and post viewing activities Primary sources of historical documents not contemporary Internet site s with specific guided activities constructed ALL Lessons must include Title Grade Level Time Length GLE Objective Materials Resources needed including text citations website addresses etc Procedures Assessment tools and criteria i e rubrics based on GLE Be prepared to bring drafts of these lessons in weekly to share with your peers 2 Social Studies Websites Create a WEBPAGE of 20 links that includes 5 websites in each of the 4 areas civics economics history geography Make sure for each subset you have a distribution of sites suitable for primary and upper grade levels These sites should have information for use by students so NOT lesson plan sites for teachers to be using Create a linked List of general information research sites students may use for researching facts and information For each site provide a summary of the site as well as grade level designation and critique of strengths and weaknesses Site Link Summary Grade Level Critique Strengths Weaknesses Be prepared to bring in these sites weekly to share with your peers 3 Unit Plan for CBA Working with a partner or alone choose one of the CBAs from Elementary or Middle Level Deconstruct the skills knowledge needed to be taught make a list Design a unit of study Multiple lessons over time to teach the skills knowledge needed Create a list of 20 websites to be used with the unit All to be assembled and linked on your webpage 4 Sovereignty Lesson s As per instruction from Llyn DeDannan 5 Weekly Current Events Each week you will bring in a current article to share with your group You need to have read the article and written down some ideas ways in which you could use the article for making curricular connections Include relevant GLE s and lesson ideas no need for formal lesson plans just brainstormed ideas 6 In class groups You will be in an assigned group for the quarter Each week you will be responsible to bring 1 current events 2 drafts of lessons 3 websites and critiques to your group to share Each week you and your peers will fill out an evaluation sheet for your preparation and contribution to the group learning
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