ELE 3340, section 1, Project WOW, Course Calendar

J. Barford, EIU,  L. Conwell  &  K. Miller , Carl Sandburg School, Fall 2005


Project WOW
 Windows of the World: Heroes of the Environment

Calendar topics and tasks are based upon the outcomes listed in the ELE3340 WOW course syllabus. These are also designed to coordinate with two third grade classes and the objectives of Project WOW as listed in the Conwell/Miller original T.I.M.E. proposal (Technology Integrated Materials in Education): higher level thinking based upon multiple intelligences, discernment and organization of information, collaborative groupings, integration of technology, dissemination of products.  Multimedia activities will consist of use of the WWW, evaluation of websites, downloading graphics and sound files, and cooperative construction of the WOW Heroes of the Environment website. Beginning September 9, we will spend Thursday class periods, from 9:55 to 10:55 at Carl Sandburg School with children of 3LC and 3KM. Be alert to meetings scheduled below at EIU, in computer labs.

Visit helpful Social Studies links

Week 1, August 23

ELE3340 overview. The global and personal scope of social studies, empowering  individuals and community. Expectations of Excellence. 6 characteristics of contemporary SS. Introduction to Project WOW.
President's Activity.  Introducing environmental heroes.
Further goals of SS - knowledge & goodness, cognitive and affective goals.  The meaning of action for the SS classroom.

Tasks:
Plan to purchase your ELE3340 Readings and Study Packet at Copy Express.  Course handouts are in this packet.  Select Environmental Hero teams. Issues in the News, assigned, due August 30. Autobiography assigned, due Sept. 1. W--Prologue, Ch. 1. Quiz, August 30.  KWL and first webbing, due in class, a first impressions of Social Studies survey which you will receive the first day of class.

Recommended
SS sites.

Week 2, August 30

Expanding the SS "Classical Building" model. Children's literature: identifying social studies content in this invaluable resource. Try this link from San Diego for some wonderful integrated teaching units based on children's literature:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Using the standards and the multiple intelligences to plan teachng/learning activities.  Using autobiography in the social studies curriculum.  Comparing autobiographies to the biographies of the environmental heroes. Comparing intelligences -- recommendations.  Populating the EH teams.                             Welton Ch. 2 and Ch. 3

Tasks:
Issues in the News due August 30.   Quiz, Welton  Prologue and Chapter 1.
Autobiography due Sept. 1. Preparing for the first meeting with the third graders, September 8. Gathering books.


Celebrate Latino Heritage Month.  Attend campus-wide events throughout September, 2005.

Week 3, September 6

Class on campus Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 9:30, at C.S., Thursday, September 8, at 9:55 a.m.

Values education, the heart of SS. Kevin Ryan, six E's for the new moral education.   Teaching ethics in elementary and middle school. Character education.  Research (Bandura, Vygotsky) on modeling.  Role models and motivation.  The model personality lesson plan.  WOW hero skits and team recruitment.  Preparation for the Environmental Hero skits to be presented to the third grades 9/29 and 9/30 (tba).  Constructing graphs based on the autobiographical topics and categories.  Designing and using class graphs to build classroom community. View previous graphs, assignment of graph topics for September 13 at C.S.

Tasks:
Environmental hero skit, discussed, team planning begins.  Autobiographies shared in class and at school                                Welton  Ch. 6

At Carl Sandburg:
9/8 Share your autobiography with the children assigned to you.  Perceive the developmental levels of the third graders.  Engage them in conversation as they show you their Bio-boxes.  Engage in get-acquainted activity.   Read a book aloud (carefully selected by you in advance) about an Environmental Hero

Week 4, September 13

Class on campus, Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 8:00, at C.S. 9:55 a.m., same day
Meet the third graders as they rotate around the C. S. lunchroom tables, meeting you and recording their
        autobiographical graph data. Finished graphs are due asap. These need to be taken to the school for classroom bulletin boards.

NCSS theme 1:  Culture.  Multicultural education and the Social Studies.  James A. Banks, four levels for multi-ethnic education.  Accomodating and celebrating diversity.  Cultural universals. Cultural card activity.  Writing a cultural awareness lesson plan.  History methodoligies for young learners:  biographies, timelines, original documents, field trips, simulations, debate, music, art, poetry, foods, costumes.  The union of culture and history. Planning your team scope and sequence and your first team meeting and lesson based on your skit presentation.

Plan your skits to motivate the third graders to select a hero and join your team.  Spencer Kagan team building activities.

Tasks:
Literature and resource search for the environmental hero, his/her life and times.  Literature search, rationale/scope and sequence of six teaching periods, and first  lesson plan assisgned.

September 16 is Constitution Day -- view a special presentation from Library of Congress and EIU Adventure of the American Mind.

Yosemite Valley

Week 5, September 20

Class on campus,  Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 9:30, and Thursday, Sept. 22, at 9:30 for the LOC collection connection standards alignment project.

Preparing for teaching. Teams set curriculum for 6 teaching sessions. (See week 6 resources below) Keep the person of  hero prominent regarding childhood, science, culture and times, achievements for the environment and for the world.  Setting the lesson objectives to include what the children will produce.  Throughout the development of team products, the children will accumulate materials for their WOW folders and for display at the Open House.  Utilizing all subject areas in support of social studies content.  Emphasizing values.  Gathering diverse resources...web sites as well as literature . Check thoroughly the EIU Ballenger Teachers Center for resources on your hero.  Tarry Lindquist and social studies planning.

The Library of Congress Collections.  Using LOC resources in planning.  Primary sources for motivation in teaching social studies.  Introducing the EIU Adventure of the American Mind site.

Tasks:  Literature searches due. First lesson plans and team scope and sequence due 9/27.

Week 6, September 27

Class on campus, Tuesday, Sept. 27 and at C.S., Thursday, Sept. 29, 9:55, skit presentations

At Carl Sandburg:
Skit presentations, 8 per day per classroom in rotation on September 29 

Lesson planning formats.
See also numerous resources from Annette Lamb (Eduscapes) Eduscapes
Use the NCSS standards and the multiple intelligences to plan teachng/learning activities.
Developing excellent lesson planning strategies. (as per the SS course packet)

Task:  Sharing the first team plans, emphasizing the culture, childhood history, and dreams of your hero.  Organizing resources.
Head teacher lesson plan due for teaching October 6.


Don't miss the Illinois State Teacher of the Year, Ms. Jacqueline Bolger
co-sponsored by ACEI, SRC, MLE, Kappa Delta Pi, Buzzard Auditorium, October 3, 7 p.m.

Week 7, October 4

Class on campus, Tuesday, October 4, at C.S. Thursday, October 6, at 9:55 a.m.
Table of Contents for packets. Teaching history.  Relating history to culture and to individuals (back to the autobiog. strategies).  Facts as points of light rather than dreary steps into the unknown. President's activity.  E.D. Hirsh:  history and cultural literacy.  History as a science of investigation.  Ex:  the Rosa Parks story.  Amazing Grace -- the power of drama in the teaching of history.  Simulation, debate, timelines.

Task: Head teacher lesson plan due for teaching October 11.  Telling the story of your hero.. putting him/her together and placing him/her in context.. teaching with timelines and sequence.

Week 8, October 11

Class at C.S., Tuesday, October 11, at 9:55, on campus Thursday October 13, at 9:30 a.m.  ELE4000 meets at 8 a.m., Jefferson music room.

Preparing to teach geography: Integrating science, culture, history, data-gathering, and higher order thinking with geography.   Taking geography beyond map skills with the five fundamental themes of geography.  Model geography activity development: Items from ELE3340 packet, How Big is Africa, Tremont Travelers, Bake a pie to see Ohio, Hunger Awareness Activity.
Seeing geography in environmental studies. Learning from upside-down maps. Vital statistics for Mother Earth.  Using mathematical data for geography investigations, esp. comparisons.  Country color scheme literature.  Country ABC books.  A My Name is Alice

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Ideas and links for Economics Education/ elementary & middle level
Strategies for gee whiz geography. Pangaea,   How Big is Africa? , and Flat Stanley!

At Carl Sandburg,  October 11. Continue w. Kid Pix  experiences in the lab, 3rd graders "teaching" the program.
Task: Head teacher lesson plan due for teaching October 20. Utilizing geographic concepts in your team curriculum.


Plan ahead -- attend the EIU ACEI conference: Practical Pedogogy.  By your memtor teachers and for your teaching. 
MLK Union, 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, December 8.  PDR credit applies.


Week 9, October 18

Class on campus, Tuesday, October 18, at C.S. Thursday, October 20, EH team plan #3, first WOW lab day, October 21, 9-11, Buzzard.
Conflict resolution via model personalities. Revisiting values education.  MLK video, plus consideration of Addams, Chavez, Jackie Robinson, Marian Anderson, current WOW heroes of non-violence.
 ISTE standards for technology.  Site evaluation experiences for teams. Getting ready to teach Inspiration.
For facilitators: review of Netscape Composer. (Mrs. Barford's tutorial)

Tasks: First WOW computer lab day at Buzzard labs, Friday October 21, 9 - 11 a.m.  Four team mini-field trips.  Evaluation of sites for team recommendation and resources, review of previous hero sites as models, begin saving images for EH team Web page, begin Inspiration concept map.
1. Each team will develop hero pages featuring their team mainpage, recommended links, team autobiographies pages, Inspiration concept map page, EIU facilitators pages, mini-field trip comments and photos (with permission), and pages of the teams choosing about the childhood, culture, timeline, adulthood, achievements and contributions of the hero.  Creative pages may be designed such as quotations, art prints or photos, sound files, Power Point links.   During the lab, children can assist in finding and saving images for your team Web pages. Plan carefully for what will the children do, how much time this will take, and how this will be a quality experience.  How will the children imagine the whole Web site? What will the facilitators do at a later date, still preserving the children's ownership of their hero's pages?  Use technology vocabulary as you assist the children with Web page development -- such as "background" "graphic" "image"  "digital photograph"  "links".  You may begin creating any Open House displays which will need ITC materials and equipment.  Breaks will be provided for mini-field trips.  Everything must be carefully timed!

Head teacher lesson plan due for teaching October 27.  EH lesson #4.  Assembling the children's WOW folders to date.

Week 10, October 25

Class on campus, Tuesday, October 25, at C.S. Thursday, October 27, EH team plan #4

The Columbus Event. Pivotal and irreversible changes in the culture, history, and geography of the Americas. Issues of the Columbus Event. Teaching about the American Indians.  More.  Authentic sources and values. Review -- how to avoid stereotypes when teaching another culture.  Children's literature for the Native Americans. The 'ecological Indian' thesis.   Walking with Grandfather  videos.

Task:  Preparation for the Trial of Columbus simulation

Looking ahead -- Novmber 16 -- all day Annette Lamb workshop, breakfast and lunch incl. for $5

Week 11, November 1

Class on campus Tuesday, November 1 and Thursday, November 3. 
WOW Computer Lab Day #2, Friday, November 4, 9-11
four team mni-field trips.  Writing 'what we learned' pages,  '__________is a hero because...' pages, completing the Inspiration concept map, the mini-field trip page as possible, an 'interesting facts' page, etc.

Trial of Columbus simulation and debriefing.
Teaching about religion in the social studies.  Strategies and activities.  The Giving Feasts Activity.  Myth and cultural diversity.  Myth as sacred literature (vs. myth as colloquial falsehood ),  Common themes of world cultures. Meeting Joseph Campbell.  Power of Myth video.

Task:  Head teacher lesson plan due for teaching November 10, EH lesson plan #5.

Week 12, November 8

Class on campus Tuesday, November 8, and at C.S., Thursday, November 10.  ELE4000 meets at Ashmore School, 8 a.m.

Discovering the calendar as a foundation for cultural unity.  The April Fool activity.  Forms for assessment in the social studies: teacher made tests, text book tests, projects, displays, performance, presentation, checklists, rubrics, dispositions.  The paradigm of global education. Hunger awareness activity.  Emphasizing agriculture.

Task:  Head teacher lesson plan due for teaching November 17.  EH lesson plan #6.  Technology reflection due. Writing your team quiz, Welton Chapter 9.
Read article (to be distributed)  "Unmotivated Teacher/ Unmotivated Student,"  for model quiz, November 15.

Week 13, November 15

Class on campus Tuesday, November 15, and at C.S., Thursday, November 17. final team teaching meeting
ELE4000 meets at Ashmore School, 8 a.m.

Population Education:  Day of Six Billion.  October 12, 1999 was designated as the day on which the 6 billionth human being was born, placing the planet's human population at an all time high.  What does this mean for us individually and socially?  What is the condition of humanity as Earth becomes a smaller home for an increasing number of people.  What is the condition of Earth?  How can we help young children to think about the issue of population? Population Connection video, Bill Nye population video,  PBS video, Affluenza . pbs.org
Strategies, activities, and resources for population education.

Task:
  Quiz, "Unmotivated Teacher/ Unmotivated Student"   Team quiz  to be administered  11/17.  Team Web page due i.p....


Sharing Thanksgiving plenty~~ 
Save the children.org

Week 14 -- Global/International Education.  Education about Religion and the solstice holidays.
Finalizing the Hero Notebook.  Contents, rubric . Notebook due 12/2/06

At C.S.
Final team meeting.  Team quiz.  Sharing between teams.  Open House preparations.


Week 15 -- Peace Education.  Return to effective citizenship.  Answering the 3 questions of  the Social Studies:  Who am I as a human being?  Who are we as a society?  How shall we live together  in peace?  (an active peace as in the idea of shalom)
Meet at Buzzard at class time and place.  Course summary -- teaching for informed decision making for the common good in a diverse and interdependent world.
Open House preparation.  WOW recaps.  Congratulations!!


***Open House.EIU, December 6, 6:30 to 7:30***

Final Exam meeting period: to return WOW notebooks and practicum notebooks


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