Environment and Community: The Third Teacher

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Environment and Community The Third Teacher

• Rebecca McKay
• Thursday
• January 30
• 130-250

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Session WILF

• INTERVIEWS AS AN INQUIRY TOOL
• COMMUNITY AS A RESOURCE

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What is it?

• Theory influenced by Bank Street Approach

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And

• Influenced by Reggio Emilio

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• Interviews-Our Primary Research Tool
• Theory curriculum integration influence

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When the Interview is OverKeeping the Concepts
Alive
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InformantsHow to Make Dead People Talk

• How do you get to know someone who roamed the
  planet years ago?

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Give it a try

• Choose a scientist.
• Zero in on what they did AND why they did it.
• Access, assess, AND activate prior knowledge

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George Washington Carver

• Watch me

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Lets Interrogate John MuirAmericas First
Environmentalist
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Rachel Carson
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Strategies for Interviewing
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Types of Questions
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TIPS ON HOW TO INTERVIEW
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Allen Levi My first job as a songwriter is to
notice things
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Resources

• Oral History http//www.phschool.com/eteach/socia
  l_studies/2003_04/essay.html
• Louisiana Folk-life and Oral History Project
  http//www.louisianavoices.org
• First-person documents
• DIGITAL HISTORY www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
• Repository of primary sources
  www.uidaho.edu/specialcollections/Other.repositor
  ies.html

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Resources

• Banks Street
• http//www.bankstreet.edu/sfc/curriculum.htm
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• Schmidt, L. (2007). Social studies that sticks
  How to bring content and concepts to life.
  Portsmouth, NH Heinemann.
• Rogovin, P. (2001). The research workshop
  Bringing the world into your classroom.
  Portsmouth, NH Heinemann.
• Rogovin, P. (1998). Classroom interviews A world
  of learning. Portsmouth, NH Heinemann.

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HIT THE ROAD JACK
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Lets Play

• Surely all God's people, however serious or
  savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and
  elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly
  small mischievous microbes - all are warm with
  divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.
• - The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, (1913),
  pages 186-187