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1:1 Teaching in Social S tudies

1:1 Teaching in Social S tudies . Matthew Jaeger Bellevue High School Bellevue, Iowa. Purpose of Presentation. Show other educators what we at Bellevue High School are doing in the Social Studies classroom. We will focus on resources and projects we use in the classroom.

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1:1 Teaching in Social S tudies

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  1. 1:1 Teaching in Social Studies Matthew Jaeger Bellevue High School Bellevue, Iowa

  2. Purpose of Presentation • Show other educators what we at Bellevue High School are doing in the Social Studies classroom. We will focus on resources and projects we use in the classroom.

  3. Bellevue High School • Third Year of 1:1 in High School • Middle School is roughly 2:1 • Future for Us • Google • iPad, Macbook, or PC in the High School?

  4. What I Do • Classes • United States History • Government • Current Issues • History Through Film • Teach Thematically • Migration • Economics • Social • War & Foreign Policy

  5. U.S. History Essential Question • What is the American Identity? • Unique Individuals? • Freedom? • Conflict? • Based on the works of… • Eric Foner • Joy Hakim • James Percoco

  6. Goal of 1:1 Computing • Do what you do • Focus on Individual Discovering and Applying what is taught • Make the students tired, not me • Allows me to teach freely, not constrained by textbook.

  7. Social Studies Resources

  8. EDMODO • www.edmodo.com

  9. Digital History • www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

  10. Hippo Campus • www.hippocampus.org

  11. DOCS Teach • www.docsteach.org

  12. iCivics • www.icivics.org

  13. Living Room Candidate • www.livingroomcandidate.org

  14. Smithsonian Education • www.smithsonianeducation.org

  15. Library of Congress • www.loc.gov/teachers • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

  16. PBS • http://www.pbs.org/teachers

  17. Memorial Websites • http://www.vvmf.org/teachersguide • http://www.911memorial.org/teach-learn • http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=education.asp&subpage=teachersguide

  18. New York Times • http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20031229monday.html

  19. Buck Institute of Education • www.bie.org

  20. Stanford History Education Group • http://sheg.stanford.edu/home_page

  21. Classroom Projects

  22. Oregon Trail Google Map • It is the year of 1835 and you and your family are moving west on the Oregon Trail. It’s is your job to draw a map of the route you and your family take, and to keep a journal of all of the events that occur. You will be doing this by creating a map in Google Maps. Along with that you will need to create 10 journals that will be placed into the Google Map. Your journals should include information about your journey, hardships/tragedies, things you see, and how you feel.

  23. Oregon Trail Google Map • Requirements • Complete Map Line (from the Midwest to the West Coast) • 10 Journal Entries • 7 that are hand wrote and include a picture (1 Paragraphs) • 3 that are video journals (30 seconds to 1 minute)

  24. Oregon Trail Google Map • Examples • https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204486239407568288680.0004ca879b7e45ff402c7&msa=0 • https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204490463002848517001.0004ca878e83690ff0f53&msa=0

  25. Great Depression PBL Project • Examples • http://allisonkilburg10.wix.com/economics • https://sites.google.com/site/civilianconservationcoprs/home

  26. Civil Rights ShowMe • http://www.showme.com/Matt-Jaeger

  27. African American Digital History Website http://bellevue.k12.ia.us/faculty/middlehigh-school/social-studies/mr-jaeger/united-states-history-3/african-american-history-online-exhibit/

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