Social+Studies+TPCK

Social Studies Lesson developed with TPCK framework.

**Post your lesson by October 5th to allow for discussion. DS**
Kathleen Lynch Matt Keister

From Chat: "Note on your Lessons: When you are creating your two lesson plans with your collaborating partners, please remember to use the Rubric. It is on the left had side of the wiki and in the Information Module at the top of our course. Make sure you have things like objectives and that your lesson format is easy to read. I have posted an optional template that you can use. It is optional in that you do not need to use it but you must have a lesson plan that is easy to follow and has all the components listed in the lesson plan rubric, posted on your wiki for others to see. This can be on a new page in the Wiki, be sure to label your new page so we can find it and to link to it."

Kathleen, I figure that we probably should get started on our lesson, I will throw a couple of ideas your way this week and you can fire couple of ideas my way, and we will start to throw some things together.

Matt, God--I just lived through the last one! This will be easier though--I have this stuff--if it interests you at all....: )) I just read your bio and see that you are a SS teacher--what would you like to do? I am game for anything...Geography would fit too, right? like an interactive map thingy???

Matt--do you work with alternative kids? We could gear a lesson toward that population...

This is information on slavery--there are links to the Slave Narratives, an online version of Frederick Douglass Biography, and a TeacherTube presentation. Using this information, maybe the students could create a project. Check out this link to these WebTools--it is awesome! We could pick something out of here maybe... http://top50.wikispaces.com/web2.0 We could have them create a biography using PhotoStory and have a narrative to accompany it....

http://klynchhistory.wikispaces.com/HistoryLesson I had to have that template as a means to present the final lesson plan--there was a lot of trial and error going on!

Maine Learning Results http://www.state.me.us/education/lres/lres.htm

Tech Standards

http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS

looked the wiki spaces link over. I think that you have hit the nail on the head as far as the resources to use for some parts of the lesson. I did some extensive research in college using the WPA slave interviews. So here is a thought for an edition to the lesson. why not have the students use Google earth, and through the use of the placemark system they could create an interactive map of the slave trrade routes and possibly some key loactions in the underground RR. ( just a thought). I think that It would add a neat aspect to the lesson and it would incorporate the use of geography.

I love that idea! I have never had to use Google Earth in English before--so, this will be good for me to look at. This could be modified for all levels as well. What would you like to use as a primary target area? [] I found this tutorial--might be nice for an intro lesson. I watched a few--do you have one you use, Matt? What do you think... These uTube videos are great, nice find. DS

I will check out the tutorial here shortly ....

I was thinking that the lesson should probably have several different pieces that use technology. First I like the idea of the students utilizing the primary sources to from a picture about slavery in the southern unied states. Its possible that this could be backrground information for the lesson. I think that utilizing this site ( the link you posted) that is from the WPA slave interviews could be used as some pre - reading for the students going into the lesson.

It would make sense for the students to research the location of key places that made up the underground railroad. ( It may not be easy to find exact locations of some of the safe houses but its possible that the students could take some artistic license with this piece )

I think that the process of researching where various safe house locations and key hiding points on the underground railroad were could also be a lesson in itself because the students would essentially be searching websites and examining the reliability of the information.

Google earth allows each user to add their own personal placemarks so if the students were working with their own laptops ( I am thinking middle school) i dont think tthat they can export their placemarks on goog;e earth but if they have specific long. and latt. coordinates it allows any other student on google earth to check out the location of the placemark.

I guess that this might be a way the students could create a form of interactive tour. ( just a couple of ideas) I like the idea so much! I have never used Google Earth and have been in there now fiddling around. I think that we have infomation/ideas enough for a lesson--this could easily be expanded into a large unit. Middle school is a good target. Is it too much trouble for you to target one as an example to show me what it looks like? We could show this to students as an example--what a placemark looks like...I will start typing up the lesson plan on the template and post it for you today sometime! Totally different topic---but did you see the video of Anne Frank on UTube--it is the only live footage of her ever taken--looking out of her window at a wedding below...sad..: (

I was thinking about what you said about having too many topics for students to cover for one lesson. I think that I f we combine some form of web search of historical sites for students in which they search for the location and background of some safe houses that existed in the underground railroad and created some links that went with google earth It would combine a couple different skills.

1. The process of the search of various historical sites on the internet could be used as a teaching tool about determining the validity of information found on the internet. ( the students would have to demonstrate what makes the sites they reference for the underground railroad) locations reliable sites.

2. The process of adding the locations by place mark on their google earth page on their laptops, and their comments that go with the placemark is a basic lesson in the use of their google earth program.

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Hi Matt, I am going to develop a project for my class with Google Earth! We are reading a book that is set on the Mohave Desert--I am going to have them plot some points in the desert--I never would have thought of it before! Very Cool Kathleen, DS