Transcript Susan Morrissey - Wright State University

Communities-Third Grade
By Susan Morrissey
ED 417-01
Dr. R. Helms
Table of Contents
American Heritage
 People in Societies
 World Interactions
 Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
 Democratic Process
 Decision Making and Resources
 Science, Technology, and Society
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Rationale
In order for students to become active
citizens for a lifetime, they must develop
skills and awareness of various levels of
interests including local, state, national,
and international. In addition, students must
be able to think critically about issues
from the past, present, and future.
Goals
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1. To enable learners to gather and interpret
information using perspectives from appropriate
fields of social studies, to use methods and skills
drawn from the social studies, and to actively
engage in learning.
2. To enable learners to explain how the world’s
people cope with the challenges of existence,
examine issues from multiple perspectives, and
respond to individual and cultural diversity.
To enable learners to work with others, make
informed judgments and decisions, and act in
accordance with democratic processes and
principles.
American Heritage
Objectives
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1.Measure time by years, decades, and
centuries
2.explore local historical developments
3.investigate narratives and/or documents
4. Explore sources of information about
local history
5. Investigate the influence of geography
on the history of the local community
6. Observe and record changes in the
community
Web Sites
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www.history.org-visit historical
Williamsburg
www.ohiokids.org/-look at
historical documents and civil
war prisoners of war
www.firstflight.open.ac.ukwright brothers.
More Web Sites
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www.costumes.org/explore the clothing of
different time periods.
Www.ci.kettering.oh.uscommunity events,
planning, and other
community related
information
Activities
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1. Students can visit their government center
and meet with the city planner to discuss
changes in the community.
2. Students can design their community using
various sizes of containers to learn concepts
of size such as between a stadium and a
house.
3. Students can design an accordion book
record events to make a story. It would be
important to include clothing,music, etc..
4. Students can watch the “Colonial Life for
Children” series to make their books.
People in Societies
Objectives
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1. Describe the various cultural groups
that have settled into the local
community and plot on a map their
settlement patterns
2. Determine why various cultural
groups settled where they did in the
local community
3. Recognize the diverse nature of
society by identifying and describing
the characteristics of different groups of
people in the community.
Web Sites
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www.activedayton.com/calendar/e
vents.htlm-a world a’fair is at the
Convention Center 5/25-5/27
http:/mcweb.martin.K12.ky.us/hills
web/-Appalachian magazine with
lots of information.
www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/calender-based menu of
multicultural celebrations.
More Web Sites
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www.kron.com/specials/blackhistory/du
bois.html-good biographies on famous
African Americans.
www.familytreemaker.com-site helps
students create a family tree to trace
ancestry.
www.americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/sprin
ger-”You Be the Historian”-on-line
activity that lets students use clues to
learn about a family from the past.
Another Web Site
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www.shakerwssg.org/students learn about
Shakers, can tie in with
Underground Railroad.
Activities
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1. Students can use their web site to
prepare their family tree. Students can talk
to their families about the reasons their
ancestors moved into this area.
2. Students can attend the “A World A’Fair”
with their families. Students can read and
share “Our Global Village” set of books.
3. Students can use the Odyssey Globe to
trace their heritage.
4. Students can make a pictogram to show
the groups they belong to, their roles in the
group, and the interests of these groups.
More Activities
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4. Students can visit the
Shaker Museum.
5. Students can use the
Internet to learn the Native
American tribes that
inhabited Ohio.
World Interactions
Objectives
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The student will:
1. Develop map skills
2. Compare maps showing local communities, speculate as to the
physical and human attributes which may have affected their location,
and chart the most common attributes.
3. Use maps and globes to point out the location of the community,
state, country, and continent relative to other places
4. Cite examples of how different cultures satisfy wants through the
consumption of goods and services and their use of resources
5. locate, on national and world maps, areas which provide resources to
Ohio and areas which receive resources from Ohio and consider how
resources are moved from place to place.
6. Compare communities of selected cultures around the world with the
student’s community
7. Explore the concept of region by using a map to illustrate the
boundaries of a neighborhood and suggesting how it might be defined.
Web Sites
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www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/postcard.ht
m-students can write post cards.
www.kids.infoplease.com/ipka/A0855261.html
-kids almanac with maps and flags.
www.mamalisa.com/world/-children’s songs
and rhymes from all nations
http://ur.utenn.edu/ut2kids/maps/maps.html”Map maker, map maker make me a map”
www.factmonster.com/-has multiple games
and learning experiences.
Activities
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1. Students will practice map making and geography skills
with the computer program “Maptastic Vogage:Explore the
World of Map Making and Geography.
2. Students will explore an internet site and plot out a
vacation using a map maker site.
3. Using a map of the United States that is obtained from
the Internet, students will identify mountains, deserts,
rivers and discuss how climate will be different in these
regions.
4. Student can map products made in the United States
and in other countries and tack up a string from product’s
origin to the country or city that produced it and the
resources (railroad, water, etc.....) that make it possible.
5. Children will use the Internet to find how other children
play, eat, etc....... and how this affects the type of goods
they use.
Citizenship--Rights and
Responsibilties
Objectives
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The learner will:
1. Locate sources of news and acquire
information regarding local issues
2. Identify factual statements in sources of
news.
3. Take part in creating rules based on the idea
of fair play, selecting persons to serve in
positions of authority, and following directions
and rules.
4. Develop citizenship traits
5. Facilitate a project to improve the physical
environment of the school or community
Web Sites
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www.kidsvotingusa.org/-wish tree for our
country, also info about kids voting.
www.youthlink.org-contains a pole of
issues important to youth, students can
see how they compare with others.
wwwgatewayva.com/pages/special/nie/less
on2a/htm-Bill of Rights in action.
www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr008.s
html-teaching citizenship’s five themes
(respect, compassion, courage, honest,
responsibility)
www.teacher/scholastic.com/barrier/home.
html-breaking the color barrier.
Activities
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1. Use the Internet to explore and study
citizenship’s 5 responsibilities-students can
write about how they meet these
responsibilities in their journals.
2. Have students respond with a wish on the
Kids Voting web site.
3. Discuss prejudice and how it affects
people with suggestions from The Prejudice
Book: Activities for the Classroom.
4. Create items from household trash.
5. Check out city web cite for local issues.
Democratic Process
Objectives
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The learner will:
1. Identify the purposes of local government
2. Link examples of local government actions
with the purposes of local government
3. Examine current issues and determine when
her/his interests and the public good are
involved.
4. Discuss how a community group can
organize to address the public good.
Web Sites
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www.si.kettering.oh.us-this site tell the
latest plans and development for the
city.
http://www.dare.com//D_KIDS/D_Kids/f
rame.htm-D.A.R.E. kids
www.mcgruff.org/-has activities to teach
kids how to be safe
www.ou.edu/oupd/kidsafe/startkid.htmkid safety on the internet
www.ci.dayton.oh.us/html/government.
html-city governmnent of Dayton
www.ncpc.org/-national crime
prevention prevention council resource
Activities
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Students can visit the McGruff web site to
do safety activities.
Students can visit the McGruff web site to
learn ways to be on the Internet safely.
Arrange to have a police officer and his K-9
unit to come into the school and lecture on
safety.
Arrange to have a fireman visit to talk to
children about fire safety.
Student will read Officer Buckle and Gloria
and make up a safety wall.
Students can survey the school or home and
suggest way to improve safety.
Decision Making and
Resources
Web Sites
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http://allowancenet.com/-allowance
simulation
http://www.Kidsmoneycents.com.front.htm
-making money make sense for kids
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3901/econopolis, learning about money.
Http://www.cibc.com/smartstart/-CIBC
Smart Start, learning to manage money
www.ed.gov/free/s-social.html-a wealth of
connections to valuable social studies
sites.-simplified info about starting a
business, taxes, etc.
Activities
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Students will use the web site on starting a
business to start their own business.
Students will take a field trip to a business with
a cafeteria to make decisions about what to
buy with money they earned with various
duties while learning about business.
Students will visit the junior think quest site to
learn more about economics.
Student will use a computer program to
simulate money spending.
Science
Objectives
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Students will:
1. Locate the world’s rainforests on a map of
the world.
2. Identify products/resources that come from
the rainforests
3. Create/identify an environment that contains
the elements of a rainforest
4. Use technology to make decisions about
political aspects of the rain forests.
5. Discuss the implications of
population/technology on the rainforests
Web Sites
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www.eduweb.com/amazon.html-learn about the
rain forest and its inhabitants.
www.richmond.edu/~ed344/hunts/rainforests.htm
l-more information, activities for rain forests.
www.ran.org/ran/kids_action/animals.html-check
out the animals of the rain forest.
www.rainforest_alliance.org/resources/tmlwhat.ht
ml-what kids can do to save rain forests.
www.kids.osd.webnet.edu.marshall/homepage/tro
pical/html-lots of activities and information.
Activities
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Students will use the web to find how the amount
of rainfall in a rain forest compares with the rainfall
in the area.
Students will find the world’s rain forests on a
world map.
Students will use the web to find the products that
come from the rain forests.
Students will use the web to transfer the classroom
into a rain forest.
Students will watch the video entitled “Rainforest
for Children” video series.
Students will read books about rain forests.