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K-3 Social Studies/Reading Workshops |
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ARTIE FACT, JR.
DETECTIVE:
THE CASE OF THE PLACE |
| Targeted Audience: K-3 |
| Areas of Integration: History, Geography and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: History 2 (Analysis) and Geography 3 (Places) |
| Workshop Description: Join Artie as he unlocks the mystery of history through the analysis of artifacts, using his new knowledge to uncover clues to the human and physical features of places in the past. |
| Featured Readings: The Case of the History Mystery and A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry |
| Presenter: Anne Deinert |
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HAVE YOUR BREAD
AND READ ABOUT IT TOO?
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| Targeted Audience: K-3 |
| Areas of Integration: Economics, Civics, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Economics 3 (Economic Systems) and Civics 4 (Participation) |
| Workshop Description: The economics lessons specifically help students identify human resources and evaluate two production strategies. The civics lessons help students identify working together and cooperation as effective skills in reaching a group objective. The lessons feature a variety of hands-on activities such as games, dramatization, food production, and singing. |
| Featured Readings:The Little Red Hen by Amanda Wheeler, The Hungry Farmer by Michelle Wagner Nechaev, Swimmy by Leo Lionni, and The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons |
| Presenter: Betty Hudson |
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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
- EXPLORING ECONOMIC WANTS OVER TIME
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| Targeted Audience: K-3 |
| Areas of Integration: Economics, History, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Economics 1 (Microeconomics) and History 2 (Analysis) |
| Workshop Description: This workshop uses children's literature to examine economic wants and how they are fulfilled. Participants will be introduced to stories that focus on the comparison of wants both long ago and now. Participants will also be instructed on how to introduce documents and artifacts to children. |
| Featured Readings: The Corner Shop (Poem), When I was Little by Toyomi Igus, The Chalk Doll by Charlotte Pomerantz, The Goat in the Rug by Charles Blood and Martin Link, Long Ago by Rachel Emmer |
| Presenter: Anabelle Gervais O'Malley |
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STANDING OUR
GROUND: BEING RESOURCEFUL AND RESPECTFUL IN TAKING SOCIAL ACTION
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| Targeted Audience: K-3 |
| Areas of Integration: Economics, Civics, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Civics Standard 2 (Politics) and 4 (Participation) and Economics 1 (Macroeconomics) |
| Workshop Description: The lessons presented in this workshop will allow your students to evaluate the costs and benefits of making choices when participating in social action issues and understand the resources used to satisfy their wants. Examples of citizenship rights such as petitioning, will be highlighted. Students will also learn effective goals towards being American citizens. |
| Featured Readings: The Streets are Free by Kurusa, City Green by Dyanne DiSalvo, Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss, The Day They Left the Bay by Mick Blackistone |
| Presenter: Anne Marie Shields |
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MAPPING AND SCARCITY
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| Targeted Audience: K-3 |
| Areas of Integration: Geography, Economics, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Geography 1 (Maps), and Economics 1 (Microeconomics) |
| Workshop Description: One of the biggest problems in teaching today is scarcity of TIME! How can we teach all we have to teach in a day, week, month, or a year? Find your way to integrating geography (standard #1; mapping) and economics (standard #1: scarcity) into your reading block. |
| Featured Readings: Me On the Map by Joan Sweeny, The Mitten by Jan Brett |
| Presenter: Nancy Turner |
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TOADS AND TIMELINES:
USING BIOGRAPHIES TO INTEGRATE SOCIAL STUDIES AND READING
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| Targeted Audience: K-3 |
| Areas of Integration: Geography, History, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Geography 1 (Maps) and 3 (Places), and History 1 (Chronology) |
| Workshop Description: The goal of this workshop is to present elementary teachers with a strategy for using biographies of famous Americans as vehicles to teach map skills, show change in places over time, relate chronology, and strengthen comprehension skills using a modified KWLPlus organizer. |
| Featured Readings: Abe Lincoln by Lynda Jones, and George Washington by Joan Heilbronner |
| Presenter: Betsy Zimny |
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CONNECTING TWO
PIECES OF THE PUZZLE (SOCIAL STUDIES AND READING)
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| Targeted Audience: K-3 |
| Areas of Integration: Civics, Economics, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Civics 3 (Citizenship), and Economics 1 (Microeconomics) |
| Workshop Description: This is a hands-on workshop which discusses the necessity of teaching Social Studies in our schools while presenting several reading/social studies lessons that can be implemented in the classroom. |
| Featured Readings:Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! by Pat Cummings, Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss, We Vote by Cynthia Martin, Granddaddy's Gift by Margaree King Mitchell, and The Day Gogo Went to Vote by Elinor Batezat Sisulu |
| Presenter: Venus Colon |
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"...AND
HOW WILL YOU BE PAYING FOR THAT?" - MONEY SYSTEMS PAST AND
PRESENT
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| Targeted Audience: K-3 |
| Areas of Integration: Economics, History, and Reading |
| Benchmarks Addressed: Economics 2 (Macroeconomics), and History 1 (Chronology) and 2 (Analysis) |
| Workshop Description: The lesson featured in this workshop examines how the barter system has been used over time, the characteristics and functions of money, and the analysis of its utility in different mediums. |
| Featured Readings: Blackberry Booties by Tricia Gardella, , A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Zeifert, Saturday Sancho by Leyla Torres, and 50 State Quarters Handbook and Coin Album |
| Presenter: Amy Carlson |
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