EDUC461Winter2024

  Reflecting on the Moran Article: Paper Bag City Why would using a Project-based learning approach be a good idea? Provides a hands-on learning experience. Students get to interact with different materials. Can be highly engaging. Allows student ideas/creativity. Connects children to the world or community around them. What makes the project Moran describes powerful, effective, and worth the time it takes? The project is able to incorporate multiple concepts for the students to use and learn. It provides a combination of geography and economics, as well as a connection to their community. It supports young children's critical thinking, problem solving skills, and decision-making skills while doing it in an engaging and meaningful  way. Describe a PBL idea you found, what it is, and why you'd like to use it in the classroom. A PBL idea I found and really liked was planting and managing a garden. This would be a project that would involve learning about plan...

 IDM Foundational Elements Topic: Civic Involvement (2nd grade) Compelling Question: How do my actions matter to my community? Theme #5: Individuals, Groups, and Institutions                               - Concepts such as: community, culture, role, competition, cooperation, rules, and norms.   Standard: D2.Civ.2.K-2. Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community. Supporting Questions:  1. What are community helpers and what are some examples? 2. How are community helpers supported? 3. How can the actions of one person impact a community? Our Thinking: When it comes to social studies, their needs to be an understanding as to what communities looks like and an individual's place within one. This topic helps students get a better understanding for the community around them and the impact a member of a community can has. There's a focus on c...

  How has my understanding of social studies inquiry grown during this module? My understanding has grown so much, and I think many of my peers would agree because we didn't all necessarily experience social studies being taught in this way as kids. I've learned that at the core of inquiry when it comes to social studies, we want kids to learn how to think about and examine the world around them. We want them to be able to have the tools necessary to discover the true accounts of the past and present, as well as how it affects them. What is the importance of both compelling and supporting questions in an IDM? Compelling questions should be setting students up for a learning opportunity and at the same time be relatable or relevant to students. This is what sets the students up for learning the content. Supporting questions should help lead students to the answers to the compelling questions and help them understand more about the topic. What is a question I still have about soc...

Looking back to my early experiences with Social Studies What I remember about social studies from elementary school: Truthfully, a mixed amount of knowledge depending on the concept. My learning experience when it came to social studies was a bit scattered since I went to multiple elementary schools in places with different expectations of students. I feel as though it's appropriate to write a list of what sticks out in my mind.  SOCIAL STUDIES MEMORIES (that really stuck with me) - learning about the origins of Thanksgiving and making mayo in a jar... - voting for the continuation of sun butter in the cafeteria - PRESIDENTS PRESIDENTS PRESIDENTS, just learning about them because honestly my president knowledge isn't great - John Greene videos about government  - where each state is in the U.S. and being tested on it That's the list of the concepts I can retrieve from my mind when it comes to social studies. Which does astonish me because I grew up in areas that were very ...