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Contents of my Social Studies Portfolio

The First Thanksgiving Within my social studies portfolio, I have included a lesson plan that focuses on teaching children about the First Thanksgiving. Accompanying the lesson plan are pictures of the bulletin board Jen and I created for the lesson, suggestions for books to read to students, a story for students to read, and a [...]

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Ideas for Social Studies Instruction: Greg’s Portfolio Pieces

The following are the pieces that comprise my social studies portfolio. Feel free to use them in any way you see fit and adapt them to your needs. In order to download the pieces, click on the link following each description. I hope you find something that sparks your interest! 1.) Where in the World [...]

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Carriage Hill Metro Park Five Day Lesson Plan by Emily Ferris-Gilliam

Carriage Hill Metro Park Five Day Lesson Plan by Emily Ferris-Gilliam November 12, 2008 by w101enf | Edit I am very proud of this five day unit. It took a lot of time and thought, but I really like the way that it turned out. I have not carried out the unit in a classroom. [...]

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We’re Going on a Road Trip by Emily Ferris-Gilliam

I had an excellent time creating this lesson plan. I put myself in the place of my student and thought about what I would enjoy doing. I have not conducted the lesson in a classroom, but I will! I’m very interested in seeing how students will respond to a lesson like this. Enjoy! Emily Lesson [...]

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Social Studies Programs Today by Ty Jacobs

ED 417          Professor No          Tyler, Carla, Taylor, Amanda, and Nicole      If you were to go into a random early childhood classroom and ask each student to draw a picture of a fire fighter, how many of them do you think would draw a woman on their paper?  My personal guess is that not very many, if [...]

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What to do for Students Who Can’t Read the Text by Amanda Thompson

Chapter 7 discusses the importance of reading and writing and why incorporating literacy into the Social Studies curriculum is necessary.  As with any subject, reading and writing can easily be intertwined into Social Studies, and chapter 7 allows us to see how these two subjects can work as a “gateway” for one another. In a perfect classroom all students would be [...]

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Questioning Students Chapter11

   “For every question there is a purpose, ” according to David A. Welton in Children and Their World, teachers should have a purpose for the questions they wish to ask. It is also important to consider the answer you anticipate the children giving.   In chapter eleven, Welton describes the different types of question [...]

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Strategies and Activities for Effective Teaching

Strategies and Activities for Effective Teaching “Discussions that involve twenty or more students, for example, are less likely to be successful than discussions involving groups of five-seven students, simply because participants in the larger groups must wait so long before they get a chance to speak.” (Welton, 285). Many classrooms teach through large group discussions [...]

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Critical Thinking and Metacognition and Pumpkins

Reading Between the Lines It is important that teachers encourage 3rd graders to read between the lines and other critical thinking skills. Some different ways to teach these skills include: 1) modeling the desired behaviors, including talking out loud as you think through the problem 2) Including clear student expectations 3) Applying synthesis level questions [...]

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