Seeing the Whole Through Social Studies

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Seeing the Whole Through Social Studies

• Introduction
• And
• Chapter 1

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Introduction

• Written about a 5th grade class
• Standards
• Not stand alone topics
• Aligned with standards and other documents, e.g.,
  GPS

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• Head
• Hand
• Heart

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Integrated Learning

• OK for 4th and 5th
• Built around language arts
• Stand alone at 6th, 7th and 8th
• Seven Blind Mice

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Chapter 1

• Multiple Intelligences
• Howard Gardner
• Frames of Mind
• 8 pigments on a painters palate
• Fosters multicultural and global education

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• Flow
• Flow occurs in the classroom when the days
  activities are a cohesive and productive whole.
• Creating a newspaper
• Writing a letter to a historical character
• Pocahontas writing her father

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• Values Time
• Read a historical novel
• Write about it
• Compare with other data
• Learning is a process.

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• Time
• Key factor in todays classroom
• Finding time to teach just social studies after
  tracking reading, writing, listening, speaking
  and viewing is futile.
• So do it together!
• Combining language arts and social studies
  provides breadth and depth.

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Broad topics

• Teach with themes
• Conflict and cooperation
• Continuity and change
• Community
• Power
• Unity
• Diversity

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Non-fiction books

• Notable Trade Books for Young People

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Aligning literacy connections

• Reading and writing READ 4252
• Writing, listening, speaking and viewing this
  class