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Using Technology to Teach the National Themes of Elementary Social Studies

Using Technology to Teach the National Themes of Elementary Social Studies. Melissa Walker Beeson mgwalker@uncg.edu Lisa Brown Buchanan lbbuchan@uncg.edu The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. People, Places, and Environments.

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Using Technology to Teach the National Themes of Elementary Social Studies

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  1. Using Technology to Teach the National Themes of Elementary Social Studies Melissa Walker Beeson mgwalker@uncg.edu Lisa Brown Buchanan lbbuchan@uncg.edu The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  2. People, Places, and Environments • The study of people, places, and environments enables us to understand the relationship between human populations and the physical world.

  3. Jeannie Baker and The Window Project

  4. The Window Project • CNN- Look out Windows Across the Nation • Animoto- http://animoto.com/ • Flixtime- http://flixtime.com/ • PhotoStory

  5. Time, Continuity, and Change • Studying the past makes it possible for us to understand the human story across time. Knowing how to read, reconstruct and interpret the past allows us to answer questions about the past. Children in early grades learn to locate themselves in time and space

  6. Individual Development and Identity • Personal identity is shaped by an individual’s culture, by groups, by institutional influences, and by lived experiences shared with people inside and outside the individual’s own culture throughout her or his development.

  7. Where I'm From by George Ella Lyons (see full poem and template in handout) Interactive Technology Tool: Voicethread http://voicethread.com/?#u391568.b1330011.i7090195

  8. SnapShot Biographies

  9. Power, Authority, and Governance • The development of civic competence requires an understanding of the foundations of political thought, and the historical development of various structures of power, authority, and governance. It also requires knowledge of the evolving functions of these structures in contemporary U.S. society, as well as in other parts of the world.

  10. Power, Authority, and Governance • Structured Academic Controversy • Go!Animate- http://goanimate.com/ • MakeBeliefsComix- http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

  11. Civic Ideals and Practices • An understanding of civic ideals and practices is critical to full participation in society and is an essential component of education for citizenship, which is the central purpose. Learning how to apply civic ideals as part of citizen action is essential to the exercise of democratic freedoms and the pursuit of the common good.

  12. Civic Ideals and Practices Primary Pad- http://primarypad.com/ EtherPad- http://ietherpad.com/ Scribblar- http://www.scribblar.com/

  13. Production, Distribution, and Consumption • People have wants that often exceed the limited resources available to them.

  14. Production, Distribution, and Consumption • Weird Candy Advertisement • Glogster- http://edu.glogster.com/

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