ELE 3340, section 1, Course Calendar

   Project WOW*****Wonders of the Wilderness:  The Lewis and Clark Expedition

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

art by Rosalyn Schanzer

Topics and tasks are based upon the outcomes listed in the ELE3340/ Project WOW course syllabus. The topics and tasks 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).  Objectives for the children and for the EIU facilitators (ELE3340 class members) are: higher level thinking based upon multiple intelligences, discernment and organization of information, collaborative groupings, integration of technology, dissemination of products.  Multimedia technology activities will consist of use KidPix, Inspiration, PowerPoint, of the WWW, evaluation of websites, downloading graphics and sound files, and cooperative construction of the WOW Spring, 2004, website. Beginning January 19, we will spend several periods, from 9:55 to 10:55 at Carl Sandburg School with children of 3LC and 3KM.  The St. Louis field trip is being planned for April 15, 2005.  WOW lab day with children is March 4 in the Buzzard computer labs.
Please be alert to all meetings scheduled below at EIU, in computer labs, and at C.S.

***Unique features of the Project WOW section***
**This is a technology-intensive course.  Technology is applied in support of social studies curriculum development, your pre-service teacher education, and real-time children's learning.  (Your personal Web site which you developed in ELE2022 is important preparation for this course.)
**This is a school-based methods course.  You will be learning by doing social studies with children, according to curriculum you develop with children, under the supervision of your university professor and two expert classroom teachers.
**Please check your email daily for course updates.  Because of the complex organization, enabling 50 children and 24 pre-service teachers to learn in authentic and constructivist settings, efficient communication among all participants is essential.

 Recommended  Social Studies links
                   Top Lewis and Clark links as originated with the Spring, 2002, teams and updated Spring, 04.

Week 1, January 11 and 13

ELE3340 overview, the Classical Building Model of social studies.  The global and personal scope of social studies, empowering  individuals and community. NCSS standards: Expectations of Excellence. 6 characteristics of contemporary SS. Knowledge & goodness, cognitive and affective goals.  The meaning of action (citizenship by choice) for the American democracy and for the SS classroom (contrasting brains-on, hearts-on, with hands-on).
Introduction to Project WOW, and Web site demo.  Formation of teams (24/8 = 3 EIU students per team)   The 40 minute National Geographic video summary of the great journey of the Corps of Discovery, 1803-1806.

Tasks:
KWL,  Assembling of Autobiography/BioBox due 1/18. Planning 'campfire' skits. Begin reading Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, your personal copy, courtesy of the PT3 grant.  Welton textbook/Intro. and Ch. 1, take home quiz due 1/13

The course will explore the enormous computer resources in support of social studies teaching and learning.  Computers in the ITC lab and from the PT3 project have HyperStudio, KidPix, and Inspiration installed.  Explore these programs as well as the media libraries on the resource CDs of each.  We will be using these programs as well as Netscape Composer.  To review Composer, update your personal Web page (ELE2022)

Week 2, January 18 and 19

Quiz W/Intro and Chapter 1. Social Studies sequence from the personal to the social to the global.  Expectations for Excellence/ NCSS standards.  Balancing cognitive and affective goals in order to nurture competent citizens who are willing to make reasoned and informed decisions for the common good in a diverse and interdependent world.
At Carl Sandburg School. Your autobiography designed for high appeal for 3rd graders.  Review of children's 1st semester WOW folders. Consider and discuss the multiple intelligences graph for each child. Children may wish to show you their team site for the first semester. For Kagan team-building and getting acquainted -- The Backpack activity -- "I would make a good explorer because...."

Tasks: Quiz returned.  Skit assigned. Resources offered for skit development

Week 3, January 25, 26, 27

Rehearsing the campfire skits. Writing a Rationale and purpose statement for your team topic.
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, Cyberguides, based on children's literature and numerous resources from Annette Lamb (Eduscapes)
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.htmlEduscapes
Using the NCSS standards, ISTE standards, and the multiple intelligences to plan teachng/learning activities.

At Carl Sandburg School. 
Performing the team skits at the school --  to introduce team themes and recruit third grade team members.

Tasks: Project rationale and goals due.  Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, to page 59 assigned.

Week 4, February 1 and 3

TEST -- Ambrose, to p.59, emphasizing pp. 51 - 59. Lesson planning formats. Choosing and assigning team lesson topics. Lead teacher and assistant teacher tasks scheduled for each team..
Developing excellent lesson planning strategies.
Utilizing Essential Questions in setting lesson goals and purposes.
E's for lesson planning from Miami!  Analyzing and choosing a format for WOW team plans. WOW L/C resources.
Teaching with documents.  See great resources from the National Archives
and from the Library of Congress American Memory Project
Teachers are contributing document based Web Inquiry Projects based on use of the LOC data bases.
Teaching with Documents for the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Teaching the purpose of the Louisiana Purchase, it's cost and size, what the U.S. was like in 1800.  Model strategies will be presented by Mrs. Barford, with several handouts. These strategies may be used with the teams on February 9.

Tasks:  First lesson plan due by Friday, February 4, at 4:00.
*******all plans will be instructor BEFORE teaching.  During teaching, instructor and classroom teachers will provide team feedback.

Week 5, February 8 and 9
Multicultural education and the Social Studies.  James A. Banks, four levels for multiethnic education.  Accomodating and celebrating diversity.  Cultural universals.  Exploding stereotypes. Native American resources for Lewis and Clark. The Expedition visited and communicated with over 50 different groups of indigenous Americans. Sharing and developing materials to use with your team.  In your packet -- The Giving Feasts Project.  Cultural card activity.

At C.S.  February 9, team lesson 1  according to materials provided and adapted by the lead teacher for the day. For the Native American teams, include brief story of the meeting of the Corps of Discovery with your People.

Tasks:  Quiz on the fact sheet for the teams' first lesson.  First lesson plan returned.  Second lesson plan due by Friday, February 11 at 4:00..

Week 6, February 15 and 16
Teaching history.  Aptitude of young learners. The power of  STORY.  Recommended strategies: model personalities, role play, simulation, story, timelines, model museums, innovative reporting, journals and logs.  Relating history to the present.  Problematizing history to promote higher order thinking.   Integrating history in the subject areas.  Comparing data then and now.

At C.S. February 17, team lesson 2 culture

Tasks:  assistant teacher resources due.

Consider Alternative Spring Break (Student Volunteer Office, Newman Center)

Week 7, February 22 and 23
Preparing to teach geography:  Model geography activity development: Items from ELE3340 packet, Tremont Travelers, Bake a pie to see Ohio, Hunger Awareness Activity. Integrating science, culture, data-gathering, and higher order thinking with geography.  Maps. Taking geography beyond map skills. The five fundamental themes of geography. Geography activity development: Tremont Travelers, Bake a pie to see Ohio, Hunger Awareness Activity. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World   Travel Dude,  Flat Stanley,  Recording, managing, and displaying data: Global Fact Sheets.  Drawing conclusions from graphs and other data organizers. Using mathematics as a descriptive language in SS.  Using data gathering and analysis in lesson planning.
Ideas and links for Economics Education/ elementary & middle level
Economics for kids: Money Matters    Linking economics to the geographical considerations of the Expedition.

Tasks:  At C.S., February 23, team lesson 3 history. assistant teacher resources due.
 Review with your teams. Keep up the Table of Contents for each child's folder. Begin planning KidPix slide topic for each team member.

Week 8, March 1, 3, 4
Teaching the American Indian heritage.  Six ways to avoid stereotypes when teaching another culture.  Adult level resources, 20,000 years of history, utilizing values in social studies curriculum, the meaning of myth as sacred literature, teaching the people today, confronting issues in the Native American present and past.  Resouces.  Relating the #1 standard (of 10) NCSS: Culture.  Important curriculum categories for the study of First People.  Walking w. Grandfather videos, color wheel activity, Joseph Campbell and the study of myth.

March 4: WOW lab day,  Buzzard rooms 1430, 2445 for computer use, room tba  for PBS Ken Burns video segment. Third graders arrive at EIU at 9 a.m. leave at 11:00 a.m. EIU facilitators must be in the lab, Rm. 1430 by 8:45.
Task:  Site evaluations. Understanding electronic resources.  Building the team Inspiration concept map.
Use hard copy of children's grid for site review -- preview the work of Web site review -- what sites your team will recommend to visitors to your Web pages.  Be sure the students understand the ranking categories on their evaluation form. Begin creating the Inspiration Concept Map for the team Web pages.  Break in the day: Video and visit to the animal taxidermy exhibits on the ground floor of the Life Sciences Bldg.  Identify any species discovered by Lewis and Clark.

Week 9, March 8 and 9
Continue with the Native American cultural theme.  Complete the Walking w. Grandfather video.  Analyze myth.  Joseph Campbell and his work.  The use of symbol.  Power of Myth video segment on the circle and its universal symbolism. Making the color wheel.  Playing with KidPix

Tasks:  At C.S., March 9, team lesson 4 geography.  assistant teacher resources due.
Review with your teams. Keep up the Table of Contents for each child's folder.  KidPix slide for each team member.

Tasks:  At C.S., March 9, building the KidPix page with each team member. Review with your teams. Explain that Project WOW will be making a giant timeline.  Each team is responsible for their part of the journey.  Assign a KidPix card topic for each child from the categories of 1. meeting Lewis and Clark and contributions to the Expedition, 2. Culture of the People, 3. Landforms in your area, 4. Plants  5. Animals. 6. Other -- If you would like or need for a child to develop a card on a concept you have emphasized, but which is not in this list, please do so.  Since all cannot use the computer at the same, plan to be finishing other folder activities.  Help keep up the Table of Contents for each child's folder.  Oversee the KidPix work for each team member.

Invest in practicum***   March 21 through April 8

Share your plenty~~Save the children.org

Week 10, April 12 and 13
Beginning Global Education.  Confronting social/global issues in the elementary classroom.  Ideals vs. ideologies.

The Columbus Event and its relation to today's global issues.  Child Labor and third world oppression.  The meaning(s) of globalization.

Article: Unmotivated Students...or Unmotivating Teachers? Social Education, March, 2002, pp. 133-134. Read, prepare for 10 point quiz, in model format for the objective assessment to be developed and administered to each team, April 22.
Planning assessment of children's computer skills

Tasks:  At C.S., April 13, team lesson 5 economics.  assistant teacher resources due.
Review with your teams. Preparation for the field trip. Keep up the Table of Contents for each child's folder. 
Keep track of progress on the Lewis and Clark KidPix slide for each team member.

Carl Sandburg lab work, April 13 and continuing with the children.   The two major WOW Web developments will be:  1. With our KidPix work saved as .gif files, we will create a massive timeline of the Expedition.  2. Each team will also present team pages featuring their recommended links, team autobiographies, EIU facilitators pages, field trip comments and photos (with permission).  Children can assist in finding and saving images for your team Web pages.
Plan and create Open House displays..

***Bus trip to Cahokia Mounds, St.Louis Museum of Westward Expansion, Lewis and Clark National Trail Museum, Hartford, IL., April 15, 2005, details tba.  Time frame: 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. This trip is a required course activity. 

Week 11 April 19 and 20

Global education and service learning. 

Tasks:  At C.S., April 20, team lesson 6 politics/diplomacy.  assistant teacher resources due.
Project WOW notebooks due, Friday, April 22, 4:00 p.m.
Review with your teams. Facilitate debriefing activities from the field trip. Keep up the Table of Contents for each child's folder. 
Finalize the Lewis and Clark KidPix slide for each team member.

Week 12 April 26 and 27

Population, Peace, Hunger Awareness curriculum as suggested in the course packet.

Tasks:  At C.S., April 27
Continue challenging teaching, according to team unfinished tasks.  Team members complete and compile their folders. Prepare and administer quiz. Complete and share the team Web pages you have created.  Finalize plans for your team table and Open House presentations.


Open House.  EIU, May 3, 6:30 - 7:30.

****Final Exam meeting period:  Tuesday, May 3, 10:15 a.m.

Reading Lists for ELE3340 (see course syllabus)

WOW Resources and Credits page as begun by the Spring 2002 WOW cohort.

A short list of important authors in the social studies are: J. Dewey, H. M. Hartoonian W. Parker, Tarry Lindquist,    S. Engle, K. Egan, F. Newmann, J. Banks, H. Taba, A. Ochoa, J. Brophy, J. Bruner, D. Elkind, W. Kniep, K. Scott, N. Noddings, T. Sizer, K. P. Scott, W. Longstreet, J. Becker, C. and L. Anderson, C. Bennett

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