Power Point Presentation 5th grade World Studies

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Power Point Presentation5th grade World Studies

• 5/21/01
• ED 417
• Amy Moore

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Table of Contents

• American Heritage Slides 1-5
• People in Societies Slides 6-10
• World Interactions Slides 11-15
• Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
  Slides16-20
• Democratic Processes Slides 21-25
• Decision Making and Resources Slides 26-30
• Science, Technology, and Society Slides 31-35
• Conclusion Slide 36

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American HeritageWeb Sites

• Williamsburg, VA
• www.visitwilliamsburg.com
• American Family in History Center Ellis Island
  Records
• www.ellisislandrecords.org

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American Heritage Web Sites Continued

• Early America
• earlyamerica.com/index.html
• Mount Vernon
• www.mountvernon.org
• Americas Great Seal
• www.greatseal.com

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American Heritage Activities

• Students will visit the Ellis Island web site and
  attempt to locate anyone in their family that
  came through Ellis Island
• Students will visit the colonial Williamsburg web
  site, they will do the virtual tour and write a
  summary of the things they saw on the web site.

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American Heritage Activities Continued

• Students will use the Early America web site to
  create a presentation about early America.
• Students will take the virtual tour of
  Washingtons House at Mount Vernon. Students
  will the select one room in the house to create a
  model of.

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American Heritage Activities Continued

• After reviewing Americas Great Seal on the
  internet students will create their own seal and
  then write about what their seal represents.

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People in Societies

• Infonation
• www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infona
  tion.htm
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
• Exploring Ancient Cultures
• eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm

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People in Societies Web Sites Continued

• Ask Asia
• www.askasia.org/
• River of Song
• www.pbs.org/riverof song

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People in Societies Activities

• Students will visit the Infonation web site.
  Using this web site students will filter through
  information and create a list of the top ten
  countries to live in.
• Using the Country Studies web site each students
  will select a country to research and give a
  presentation about the customs and cultures.

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People in Societies Activities Continued

• Students will write a comparative essay about
  Americas current culture versus one of the
  Ancient cultures from the Exploring Ancient
  Cultures web site.
• After examining the River of Song web site
  students will participate in a class discussion
  about other sub-cultures in American Society.

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People in Societies Activities Continued

• Students will compile a list of ten questions
  they have about Asia. Using the Ask Asia web
  site students will enter in their questions and
  record the answers they are given by the site.

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World Interactions Web Sites

• The UN Cyberschool Bus Global Trends
• www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/global/glot
  rend/index.html
• Atlapedia online
• www.atlapedia.com/
• Greenpeace International
• Greenpeace.org

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World Interactions Web Sites Continued

• Country Profiles
• www.theodora.com/wfb/abc_world_fact_book.html
• The Greatest Places
• www.greatestplaces.org

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World Interactions Activities

• Students will go through the UN Cybershool web
  site to examine global trends. We will then as a
  class discuss how the trends of one country
  effect the world.
• Using Atlapedia the students will examine how a
  countrys location affects the culture and
  economy.

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World Interactions Activities Continued

• Students will do projects on the environments of
  countries and how the environments of the world
  are affected by different countries. The
  students will use the Greenpeace web site for
  this project.
• Students will give debated on the places on the
  Greatest places web site. Students will either
  debate for or against a place.

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World Interactions Activities Continued

• Students will use the geographic.org web site to
  examine the country profiles of their assigned
  countries. Students will create a model of the
  country. Students will also give a presentation
  of how the country is wither protected or
  vulnerable to attack given its location.

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Citizenship, Rights, and Responsibilities Web
Sites

• Learning Adventures in Citizenship
• www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic
• Your Constitutional Rights
• www.aclumontana.org/rights
• An American Bill of Responsibilities
• charltonrose.com/misc/billresp/

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Citizenship, Rights, and Responsibilities Web
Sites Continued

• Project Citizen
• www.ccle.fourh.umn.edu/citizen.html
• American Civil Liberties Union
• www.aclu.org

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Citizenship, Rights, and Responsibility Activities

• Students will visit the Learning Adventures in
  Citizenship web site, using this information from
  this site students will write their own
  definition of what citizenship is.
• Students will use the Your Constitutional Rights
  web site to examine the Constitutional Rights of
  the United States. Students will examine the
  court cases and write about whether they agree or
  disagree with the courts decision.

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Citizenship, Rights, and Responsibility
Activities Continued

• Students will review An American Bill of
  Responsibility on the web. Using this as a class
  we will create our own bill of responsibility for
  Americans.
• After viewing the Project Citizen web site
  students will write about what their role as a
  citizen includes and how their role will change
  as they get older.

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Citizenship, Rights, and Responsibilities
Activities Continued

• Students will review the American Civil Liberties
  Union web site and prepare a speech as to what
  the ACLU is, what they do, and why they are
  important.

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Democratic ProcessesWeb Sites

• The Hansard Society
• www.hansard-society.org.uk/society7.htm
• Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• www.gov.yu/
• The Center for the Evolution of Democracy
• www.pensma.com/caravan.html

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Democratic Processes Web Sites Continued

• The Voting Booth
• cgi.pbs.org/cgi-bin/netforum/amerpres/a/l
• The Choice 2000
• www.pbs.org/\wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2000
  /

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Democratic Processes Activities

• Students will compare and contrast the democratic
  processes of the United States and the United
  Kingdom using the web site of the Hansard
  Society.
• Students will examine the democratic process for
  the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia using their
  official government web site. Students will
  debate on which system is better for the country
  the American, the United Kingdom, of the
  Yugoslavian.

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Democratic Processes Activities Continued

• Students will discuss whether the spread of
  democracy is a good idea or not. Students will
  base their discussion on information they find on
  the Center for the Evolution of Democracy.
• In order to participate in the democratic process
  students will go to the Voting Booth web site,
  research the candidates and vote in a mock
  election.

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Democratic Processes Activities Continued

• Students will visit the Choice 2000 web site at
  this site students will take a quiz to see what
  political parties views they most agree with.

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Decision Making and Resources Web Sites

• The National Security Decision Making Game
• www.nsdmg.org/
• The Effects of Television Coverage of
  Presidential Decision Making
• www.annenberg.nwv.edu/pubs/pres/pres4s.htm
• US House of Representatives
• www.house.gov

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Decision Making and Resources Web Sites Continued

• United Nations
• www.un.org/english/
• The White House
• www.whitehouse.gov

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Decision Making and Resources Activities

• Students will examine the National Security
  Decision Making Game and use this games format
  to create their own simulation game about
  national decision making.
• Students will read the article presented on the
  Effects of Television Coverage on Presidential
  Decision Making. The class will then discuss
  what factors affect the decisions of people like
  the President.

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Decision Making and Resources Activities Continued

• Students will review the web site for the house
  of Representatives . The students will then
  e-mail their state representative about an issue
  that they are concerned about.
• Students will examine the United Nations web site
  concentrating of exactly how the UN operates.
  Students will then participate in a Model UN.

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Decision Making and Resources Activities Continued

• Students will examine the White House web site.
  The students will then contact the White House
  and ask the President what he does in order to
  make a decision.

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Science Technology and Society Web Sites

• Technology Student Association
• www.tsawww.org
• Freedom of Expression and America online
• www.motley-focus.com./timber/aol.html
• Can Congress Censor the Internet?
• www.fnew.com/archive/censor

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Science, Technology, and Society Web Sites
Continued

• The Internet Police
• www.internet-police.co.uk/
• The Net Censorship Dilemma Liberty or Tyranny?
• libertus.net/liberty/

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Science, Technology, and Society Activities

• Students will join the Technology Student
  Association and participate in activities done by
  the association.
• Students will read the Freedom of Expression and
  America online article on the web and write a
  responsive essay on the article.

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Science, Technology, and Society Activities
Continued

• Students will examine the Can Congress Censor the
  Internet web site. Students will then debate on
  whether the Internet can or cannot be censored.
• Students will learn about The Internet Police of
  the United Kingdom from their web site. Students
  will then write about if their role in the UK us
  one they could have in the US.

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Science, Technology, and Society Activities
Continued

• Students will read about the Net Censorship
  Dilemma Liberty or Tyranny controversy in
  Australia. Students will then compare and
  contrast this problem to that of the US.

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Conclusion

• This unit was put together in order to aid in the
  teaching of world studies to students at the
  fifth grade level. It is meant to go along with
  the textbook and topics that the class is
  studying not to stand alone. I feel that these
  web sites and activities will help students
  develop a deeper understanding of the information
  contained in the strands.