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4-5 Social Studies/Reading Workshops |
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LOW BRIDGE, EVERYBODY
DOWN
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: History, Geography and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: History 2 (Analysis) and Geography 2 (Environment) |
| Workshop Description: The history activity featured in this workshop centers on the reading of a firsthand account by Thomas Woodcock who tells of his experiences aboard an Erie Canal boat in 1836. The geography piece asks students to examine a topographical map to determine whether the Pennsylvania Canal was successful. The social studies activities address the fact that students need to understand the physical environment in order to see how it affects people and how people alter the environment. |
| Featured Readings: The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal by Cheryl Harness, The American Reader (Excerpt): 1836 Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal by Thomas Woodcock |
| Presenter: Kathy Hudson |
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GEOGRAPHY, CIVICS,
AND HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF A NOVEL
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: Geography, History, Civics, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Geography, Civics, and History |
| Workshop Description: In this workshop participants will observe how a teacher can model comprehension skills while reading aloud a novel, teach about a colony's early history while discussing a novel's setting, explore our nation's past through the events in a novel, and encourage good citizenship through the actions of a character in a novel. |
| Featured Readings: The Printer's Apprentice by Stephen Krensky |
| Presenter: Elizabeth Jelich |
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MIRROR, MIRROR
ON THE TABLE IS THIS REAL OR IS THIS FABLE?
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: Geography, History, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Geography 3 (Places) and History 3 (Interpretation) |
| Workshop Description: In this workshop, participants will learn to help students understand how one's interpretation is affected by one's point of view and how someone can understand how humans affect locations of human activity and the routes that connect those locations through historical fiction. |
| Featured Readings: Grandpa's Mountain by Carolyn Reeder |
| Presenter: Judy Purcell |
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TIME - THE LONG
VIEW
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: History, Geography, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: History 2 (Analysis), and Geography 2 (Environment) |
| Workshop Description: This workshop offers a look at history and geography as they change across time. It utilizes children's literature to impart social studies content within a balanced literacy framework (mainly, the guided reading component of Four Blocks instruction). Techniques for standards-based planning will be shared, along with methods for identifying and utilizing other appropriate literature selections. |
| Featured Readings: The Ever-Living Tree by Linda Vieira, Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen, and The Loraz by Dr. Seuss |
| Presenter: Jen Frasher |
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MY CHANGE PLEASE,
IT'S ALL ABOUT RICE
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: Civics, Economics, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Civics 3 (Citizenship), Economics 1 (Microeconomics), and Reading |
| Workshop Description: This workshop presents the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a model for teaching about one method used to effect political change. Through the use of literature, students will identify steps involved in the political process, recognize that there are formal and informal methods by which democratic groups function, graphically represent the process, and employ various reading strategies to understand the content. Finally, students will employ what they have learned to develop a plan to attain a resolution to a contemporary problem or issue they identify. |
| Featured Readings: If a Bus Could Talk by Faith Ringgold, Walking for Freedom by Richard Kelso |
| Presenter: Doriel Moorman |
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THE WORLD'S LONGEST
GRAVEYARD
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: Economics, History, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Economics 1 (Microeconomics), and History 3 (Interpretation), and Reading 2 |
| Workshop Description: In this workshop the following questions will be considered: Why did families leave their homes to travel on a trail that was so hazardous that it became known as the World's Longest Graveyard? And, what happened along the Oregon-California Trail to cause an estimated 10 deaths per mile? |
| Featured Readings: If You Travel West in a Covered Wagon by Ellen Levine, Rachel's Journal by Marissa Moss, Western Migration by National Geographic Maps, and Going West by Stef Schumacher |
| Presenter: Andrea Ray |
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HISTORY, HERSTORY,
WHOSE STORY?
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: History, Economics, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: History 3 (Interpretation), and Economics 1 (Microeconomics) |
| Workshop Description: The lessons in this workshop involve using reading strategies to comprehend the selections below. There are small group activities that connect the reading to the addressed social studies standards. Teachers will become more aware of how to plan for lessons from the standards back to the content. |
| Featured Readings: Emma's Journal by Marissa Moss, Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman |
| Presenter: Jill Cramer |
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UPS AND DOWNS
OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: Economics, Geography, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Economics 3 (Economic systems) and Geography 2 (Environment) |
| Workshop Description: The meeting at Promontary Point was historic. The railroad crews dealt with contour of the land as well as production of the rails. Come find how you can integrate economics, geography, and reading with the book Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser. |
| Featured Readings: Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser |
| Presenter: Linda Haley |
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A WINDOW TO AMERICAN
JUSTICE: ARE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS A SURE THING?
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: Civics, Geography, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Civics 2 (Politics) and Geography 1 (Maps) |
| Workshop Description: This workshop suggests ways to teach civil rights and environment - mainly through literature, maps, and primary sources (e.g. newspaper articles and cartoons) - by addressing the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. |
| Featured Readings: I Am and American: The True Story of Japanese Internment by Jerry Stanely |
| Presenter: Mary Schoettinger |
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WHEN DID THAT
HAPPEN?
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: History, Geography, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: History 1 (Chronology) and Geography (Places) |
| Workshop Description: In this workshop, participants will learn how to use sequencing clues to chronologically arrange events, and understand cause and effect. Participants will also search for place clues with an eye toward understanding why cities such as Warsaw and Brussels became the sites of human settlements. |
| Featured Readings: Letters from Riftka by Karen Hesse |
| Presenter: Sally Todorow |
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RED, WHITE, BLUE:
WHICH SIDE WILL I CHOOSE?
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| Targeted Audience: 4-5 |
| Areas of Integration: History, Geography, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: History 3 (Interpretation) and Geography 1 & 2 (Maps and Environment) |
| Workshop Description: In this workshop, participants will learn how to see the American Revolution as a literary context to construct mental maps based on textual clues and develop an understanding of the two-way nature of human-environment interactions, primary and secondary resources, plus that interpretations are based on different points of view. |
| Featured Readings: My Brother Sam is Dead by Christopher and James Collier, and The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups by David Wisniewski |
| Presenter: Cynthia Mahaffey-Rice |
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