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Branching Out

Branching Out. On the back of your handout take a minute to think about your family tree. Write down everything you know about your family tree for as far as you can think back. Who is in it? Where are they from? What was their occupation? What major life events happened at the time? .

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Branching Out

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  1. Branching Out On the back of your handout take a minute to think about your family tree. Write down everything you know about your family tree for as far as you can think back. Who is in it? Where are they from? What was their occupation? What major life events happened at the time?

  2. Learning from Our Roots An Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning by Bethany Custer, Emma Foltz, Lauren Bell, Sydney Cook, and Blake Smith

  3. Rationale • Progressive: student-centered, self discovery, teacher as guide • Interdisciplinary: history (current events, government), languages, multiculturalism, English, music, art, agriculture, inventions, economy, religion, social norms • Activity and project based • Divergent thinking, problem solving, inquiry • Questioning and connections • Teacher models by being a learner themselves

  4. Student-Directed Project Students will choose one genre that incorporates student discovery from at least three different disciplines. The genre should clearly convey how the disciplines influence each other. Example: Student writes a newspaper article that incorporates the financial aspects of the Great Depression, a musical influence, and a quote from a literary source from the time period.

  5. A Day in the Life Possible classroom implications: • Library and research • Interviewing techniques • Reading time-specific literature • Discussing multicultural issues • Financial and economic studies (pertinent to present day and history) • Fine art demonstrations • Genetics

  6. Outcomes of Student Learning We hope that students will grow as learners and as individuals by: • showing an understanding of how their heritage was shaped by different historical and cultural influences (demonstrates an application) • exploring how their heritage has (or has not) impacted their sociocultural understandings • learning collaboratively • questioning perceptions of their own culture and others • investigating relationship between disciplines • applying their new knowledge to real-world situations/problems

  7. Anticipated Issues • Students from non-traditional family backgrounds • Controversial findings • Animosity towards family or culture • Lack of factual information regarding specific cultures • Parental objections

  8. Questions??

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