Social Studies Technology Project Based on the ODE SS Model

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Social StudiesTechnology ProjectBased on
theODE SS Model
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Social Studies Activities for Grade 3
Valerie Duffey Jill Graham Christy Hahn-Suttle
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Ronald G. HelmsWright State UniversityED 417
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INTRODUCTION
This presentation will give you a wide variety of
web sites and activities that may be used in a
3rd grade social studies classroom. There will
be activities given for each one of the six
strands of the ODE social studies model.
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Rationale

• Expand students knowledge of the different
  strands of Ohios Social Studies
• Broaden students awareness of the Internet
• Provide an interactive and interesting atmosphere
  in the classroom dealing with Social Studies
  aspects
• Give students opportunities to participate in
  activities involving the six strands of Social
  Studies

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Goal

• To allow the students many opportunities to
  discover numerous aspects of Ohios Social
  Studies.

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Third Grade Performance Objectives

• Given a set time period and a narrative about the
  community,the learner will record changes that
  occurred
• Given the population of the local community, the
  learner will describe cultural groups that live
  there
• Given a map of the local community, the learner
  will locate physical and human features

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Performance Objectives continued

• Given a consumer decision, the learner will
  itemize the costs and benefits of alternative
  choices, including opportunity cost
• Given an example of a local governmental
  activity, the learner will describe how the
  activity addresses a purpose or purposes of the
  government
• The learner will work with others to govern a
  group activity, as evidenced in part by the
  capacity to
• A. help create rules
• B. select leaders
• C. follow directions and rules

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American HeritageWeb Sites

• www.americanheritage.com
• At this site the students will learn valuable
  info
• homepages.rootsweb.com/maggieoh/highway.html
• At this site the students will be able to trace
  their American Heritage.
• www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/index.html
• The students will explore the amazing world of
  Early America.
• www.library.thinkquest.org/10854
• This is an excellent site to find out more on
  African-American Heritage.
• www.userweb.piasanet.com/wigger
• At this site the students can go and find
  information on German American Heritage.

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American Heritage Web Sites continued

• www.americanwestcenter.org At this site the
  students can travel out west and travel through
  the century.

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American Heritage Activities

• Research your family history by interviewing
  relatives. Use letters, audio recordings, and
  videotape to compile a report on an important
  time for your family. Make note of differing
  observations about the same event.
• After research your family create a simple family
  tree to share in class. Students will be able to
  go to www.familytreemaker.com to help them with
  this assignment.
• Create a timeline of your family using any
  important date that will show your families
  history.

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American Heritage Activities

• Port of entry activity Students will use
  their detective skills to uncover the stories
  of immigrants to the United States. This
  activity is a fun and exciting way to allow the
  students to learn about immigration and how
  their American Heritage came to be.
  www.memory.loc.gov/ammam/nd/pedu/activity.html
• Historical Detective Students will be
  given a case that needs to be solved created by
  the American Memory web site. They will search
  the American Memory collections to solve the
  riddle and learn about many parts of American
  Heritage along the way. www.memory.loc.
  gov/ammam/nd/pedu/activity.html

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People and Societies Web Sites

• http//www.logs.org/people.html This website has
  letters and journals from people of the past in
  Ohio about their lives and other interesting
  facts.
• http//www.oplin.lib.oh.us/OHS2/flint/ This
  website deals with early settlers, Indians, and
  different learning games.
• http//www.ohiokids.org/games/ohv/index.html
  Website with games and activities dealing with
  the history and people of Ohio.

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People Websites contd

• http//www.ohiokids.org/ Website made especially
  for kids with games, letters, and information
  about Ohios people of the past.
• http//dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/ This is a
  website dedicated to the importance of African
  Americans to Ohios history. It contains
  letters, newspaper articles, journals, and other
  documents.

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People in Societies Activities

• Give students a map to locate where various
  groups have settled--Japanese, African-Americans.
  Discuss reasons for these groups settling where
  they have.
• Discuss different cultures in Ohio and study
  their origins and how they came to Ohio

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Peoples Activities contd

• Divide students into groups of five. Allow
  students to devise their own cultures and where
  they will be located in the state of Ohio, and
  graph new cultures on an overhead to be made into
  a large wall map.
• Have students develop a system of government for
  their culture.

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Peoples Activities contd

• Have students develop numbers of elderly,
  children, disabled people, mental disorders, etc.
  Discuss how different cultures deal with these
  aspects--Japanese used to have a cut off age for
  elderly, then they were euthanized, China
  regulates the number of children that couples can
  have.

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World Interactions Web Sites

• www.eduplace.com/geo/indexhi.html Game for
  students to learn about different regions and
  places in the United States
• www.geosys.com/cgi-bin/genobject/maproom/tig51f1
  Students can come to this site and look at many
  maps and learn more about how maps work.
• www.atlas.usgs.gov/mapit.html At this site the
  students can use this national Atlas of the
  United States and explore our 50 states in great
  detail.

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Web Sites contd

• www.emulateme.com This site will provide the
  students country information from around the
  world, increasing the students cultural
  awareness.
• www.nmnh.si.edu/garden At this site the students
  will become aware of the exchange of goods from
  the past to the present.

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World Interactions Activities

• The students will read many different types of
  maps and relate them back to where they live.
• On chart paper, copy and display the poem
  Columbus Day. After the children read it, have
  them research Columbus Voyage and draw maps of
  it. In a class discussion, the children will
  share and explain their maps.

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World Interaction Activities contd

• The students will create a travel plan for
  another classmate to follow anywhere around the
  world. The students will trade directions and
  see if they can get to the other students types
  of world maps and directions.
• The students will be in cooperative learning
  groups and study selected communities from around
  the world. They will then compare and contrast
  their culture to our own culture.
• Students will find out what resources Ohio
  provides and receives from other places and will
  make a chart of all these resources.

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Decision Making Resources Web Sites

• http//www.infinet.com/legoe/icecream.htm This
  is showing demand for certain goods created in
  the class store.
• http//ecedweb.unomaha.edu/litgoat.htm This
  discusses how the story used immediate goods and
  resources to make their product
• http//www.sec.gov/consumer/camp99/school1w.htm
  This is to inform those who want to learn about
  saving and investing in the government or bonds.

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Decision Making Web Sites contd

• http//landmark-project.com/eco-market/ Students
  will get into groups and discuss materials that
  would be made of 50 recycled materials to sell to
  their classmates
• http//www.infinet.com/legoe/cookie.htmCookieCap
  er This is exploring what cookies are better, and
  about major companies and their production of
  goods

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Decision Making Resources Activities

• Have a class store set up to work on coins,
  checks, and credit cards. Have the class shop
  using American coins, as well as the currency of
  another country.
• Have groups create land and show and tell what
  they would need to do to cultivate the land.
• Have the class investigate how different people
  save money and make a chart of the results.

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Decision Making and Resources contd

• Have the students work for tokens in the
  classroom. They will then be able to use the
  tokens for materials in the classroom.
• Have each student, or group, research a certain
  service provided by the local government, and
  give a presentation on what they have discovered.

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Democratic Process Web Sites

• http//www.queencity.com/lwv/ Gives information
  on the election process, current issues, and
  candidates and their positions.
• http//www.sandbox.com/ Internet for final
  justiceComputer Judge Judy. Not legally binding
  and the students can see process for street
  justice.
• http//www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
  Students can take a tour and look at Supreme
  Court decisions.

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Democratic Websites contd

• http//www.senate.gov/ Students can take a tour
  of the Senate building and contact their state
  senator.
• http//www.prairienet.org/scruffy/f.htm
  Students can observe laws and rules from
  different states around the country and compare
  and contrast them.

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Democratic Process Activities

• Bring in a police officer as a guest speaker on
  how the police department works for the people,
  that it is a privilege the way it is here in
  America.
• Have a series of mock trials about different
  cases involving students as citizens deciding on
  real situations of the community.

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Democratic Activities contd

• Bring in a firefighter as a guest speaker to
  discuss how important it is for citizens to take
  part in the decisions for public services--like
  giving money to the fire department.
• Have lists of Ohios laws for students to
  support/refute to the rest of the class, and
  maybe the principal.

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Democratic Activities contd

• Give students a set budget and three situations.
  Divide the class into three groups in which each
  group gets a situation. Each group must present
  their situation to the class in a report of why
  their situation should receive the money.

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Citizenship Rights Responsibilities Web Sites

• http//www.logs.org/activities.html Here students
  can find out about the different branches of the
  government
• http//www.teacherpathfinder.org/School/school.htm
  l This site shows how you can use government in
  different subjects. This also gives the teachers
  and the students different resources to use
• http//www.youthlink.org/ Here student are able
  to get involved in the current issues

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Web Sites contd

• http//www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/ This site
  gives the teachers resources to use in their
  classroom
• http//www.whitehouse.gov Students can use this
  site to find out more about the White House and
  what goes on here

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Citizenship Rights Responsibilities Activities

• Have each student research something occuring in
  the news regarding local issues. Have them
  present what they discovered to the class.
• Analyze a newspaper to see what information is
  factual or not true.
• Have the class create classroom rules, and
  explain why these rules are important.

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities contd

• Have a group of students elected for positions in
  the classroom for behavior management, lunch
  count, and cleaning up in the classroom.
• Have a group of students facilitate the project
  of planting flowers and trees in the school yard.

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Conclusion

• Students will have a better base of knowledge for
  governmental processes in the state of Ohio.
• Students will be able to explain the basic
  principles of supply and demand.
• Students will gain more insight about the history
  of the people of Ohio.
• Students will be exposed to goods made and
  distributed in Ohio.

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Conclusion contd

• Students will become aware of events in the news
  concerning their community.
• Students will gain a broader spectrum for
  different cultures around the world.