ELE 3340, section 1, Project
WOW,
Course Calendar
J. Barford, EIU, L. Conwell & K. Miller , Carl
Sandburg
School, Fall 2008
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Project WOW
Wonders of Wisdom: Heroes of Freedom, 1800 - 1900
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). These objectives are 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 and evaluation of websites, utilizing graphics
and sound files, cooperative construction of the WOW Heroes
of Freedm website for Fall, 2008. Beginning September 4, we will
spend
Thursday
class periods,
from 9:45 to 11:00 at Carl Sandburg School with children of 3LC and
3KM. Class meetings. dates, times, and locations are scheduled below
at EIU, at Carl Sandburg, and in
the computer labs.
Visit helpful Social
Studies links
Week 1, August 26
ELE3340 overview. The global and personal scope of social studies,
empowering
individuals and community. Expectations of Excellence.
6
characteristics
of contemporary SS. The
Classical Building Model of SS.
Introduction to Project WOW Introduction of Heroes of Freedom.
Further goals of SS - knowledge & goodness, cognitive and affective
goals. The meaning of action for the SS classroom.
Tasks:
Selection of Hero teams.
Autobiography
assigned, due August 23. Welton -- Prologue, Ch. 1. take home quiz due
September 4.
KWL & SS webbing, due in class
Don't miss the Department Field
Trip! 
to the National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Friday, September 19, 7:30 a.m. to
9:30 p.m. See your email for details.
Week 2, September 2
Class on campus Tuesday, Sept. 2, at
10:00, at C.S., Thursday,
September 4, at 9:45 a.m.
Expanding the SS "Classical Building" model. Children's
literature:
identifying
social studies content in this invaluable resource.
Wonderful integrated teaching units
based
on children's literature from San Diego teachers:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Using the standards and the multiple intelligences to
plan teachng/learning activities. Using autobiography and memory
boxes in the
social
studies curriculum. Comparing autobiographies to the biographies
of the heroes. Multiple intelligences Working with HF
teams. TEAM SKIT PLANNING Welton
Ch. 2 and Ch. 3
Tasks:
Take Home Quiz, Welton
Prologue and Chapter 1, due.
Autobiography
ready for the first meeting with the third graders, September
4. Gathering team resources. At the school, 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. As an
additional get-acquainted activity, plan to share a book (carefully
selected by you in advance) about your Hero and his/her achievements.
Celebrate Latino Heritage Month. Attend campus-wide events
throughout September, 2008.
Week 3, September 9
Class on campus Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 10:00, at C.S., Thursday,
September 11, at 9:45 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 in the elementary SS curriculum.. WOW hero skits for
team
recruitment.
Preparation
for the Hero skits
to
be presented to the third grades on
9/11 and 9/16. Using skit planning for team scope and
sequence. Looking ahead to SS lesson planning.
Tasks: Skits
will motivate the third
graders to select your hero and
join
your team
TEAM SKITS, performed twice, once in
Mrs. Miller's room and once in Mrs. Conwell's room
Welton
Ch. 6
At Carl Sandburg:
9/11 (9/12 tba)
Don't miss the Illinois Teacher of the Year: Ruth Meissen, Art
Buzzard
Auditorium, 7:00, September 16, 2008
co-sponsored by ACEI, SEA, SRC, MLE, Kappa Delta Pi, SAEYC, and more
Week 4,
September 16
Class at Carl Sandburg, Tuesday, Sept. 16,
second performance of skits. At
C.S. Thursday, Sept. 18, 9:45 a.m. Meet your teams
today! And teach introductory lesson, Lesson #0, see below.
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.
Culture
card activity. Writing
an SS lesson plan, emphasis on a cultural
awareness lesson plan.
Methodoligies for young learners:
biographies, timelines, original documents, field trips, simulations,
debate,
music, art, poetry, foods, costumes. The union of culture and
history.
Planning: team scope and sequence.
Teaching Topic 1. Lesson #0 for Opening :-) The
changing culture of the 1800's.
The first team meeting and
lesson will be setting the context and contrasts of the 19th century in
a memorable way for the 3rd graders, looking outward from the birth of
Abraham Lincoln to picture America in the 1800's. The goal will be to
bring the historical culture to life for the third graders. Each
team will teach the same lesson for the first meeting. Mrs.
Barford will assist in the lesson planning with framework and resources
for the team involvement. EIU team teachers will elicit
children's thinking and questions, record KWL. The place of the
team hero in the cultural panorama will be identified.
Use the NCSS
standards and the multiple intelligences to plan teachng/learning
activities.
Review of Developing
lesson plans for SS.
Tasks:
Literature and resource search for the freedom
hero, his/her life and times and what his/her achievements mean for
today.
Literature search, rationale/scope and
sequence of six teaching
periods. First solo teaching lesson
plan due for review by Mrs. Barford 9/18 before
teaching on September 25.
September 16
is Constitution
Day -- view a special presentation from Library of Congress and EIU
Teaching with Primary Sources.
Week 5, September 23
Class on campus, Tuesday,
Sept. 23, at 10:00, and
Thursday, Sept. 25, at 9:45 at C.S.
Reporting
findings from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Museum,
Cincinnati
NCSS themes 2 and 3, history and geography. Defining history.
Effective strategies in elementary teaching of history. E.D.
Hirsh: rich content, history, and cultural literacy. History as
an
experience of adventure and imagination and as a science
of investigation Essential questions.Values base. Defining
geography. Five fundamental themes of geography education. Seeing
geography as environment.
Teaching Topic 2, Lesson #1, Solo teaching. Making a timeline
of the 1800's. Include the freedom hero in the sequence.
Set the lesson objectives to include what
the children will produce. Utilize all subject areas in
support of social studies content. Throughout the development of team
products,
the children will accumulate materials for their WOW folders
and for display at the Open House. Utilize diverse resources, web sites
as well as literature .
Check thoroughly
the EIU
Ballenger
Teachers Center for resources on your hero. The
Library of Congress Collections.
EIU Teaching
with Primary Sources
Tasks: Head teacher plans
for 10/2 due 9/25.
At Carl Sandburg 9/25: Introducing the Fall 08 Heroes
of Freedom teams! Brief bio sharing among new team members. Teach FH
lesson plan #1 Prepare and implement rich
materials for the children's WOW team folders.
Week 6, September 30
Class on campus, Tuesday, September
30
and at C.S., Thursday, October 2, 9:45
NCSS themes 6, 7 and 8, Power and Government, Economics, and
Science and Technology. Issues in the presidential election,
2008. Presenting political debate to young children. Election
resources for young children from Mrs. McGowan, 2008
Teaching Topic 3, Lesson #2, Solo teaching. Resources of the 1800's:
people who were enslaved, cotton, coal, factories, canals, railroads,
etc. Who had power then and now. Using children's skits to
illustrate basic issues such as settling Western lands, spread or
containment of slavery, immigration, conscription and war, different
ideas of America, factory work, Freedom versus Unfreedom.
See also numerous resources from Annette Lamb (Eduscapes) Eduscapes
Tasks: Teach FH lesson plan #2
Head teacher lesson plans due for teaching
October 9..
Week 7, October 7
Class on campus, Tuesday, October
7, at C.S. Thursday, October 9, at 9:45 a.m.
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 w. Web sites listed below
Seeing geography in environmental studies. Learning from
upside-down
maps. Using mathematical data
for geography. Geography literature. Weather poetry.
Country ABC books. A My Name is Alice
In the computer lab, geography,
scavenger hunt to be distributed.
Geography World
How
to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
Ideas and links
for Economics Education/ elementary & middle level
Strategies for
geography. Pangaea,
How
Big is Africa? , and Flat
Stanley!
Task: Head teacher lesson plan for teaching November
6. Studying the home geography of your hero. Teach FH lesson
plan #3
Invest
in Practicum, Dates: October 13 - October 31,
2008
Descriptions are being added to the following
class periods, Lab descriptions are
complete. JBarford, 8/17/08
Week 8, November 4
Class on campus, Tuesday, November 4,
and at C.S.,
Thursday November 6, at 9:45 a.m.
Task: Head teacher lesson plan due
for teaching November 11.
Teach FH lesson plan #4.
6
***First WOW computer lab day at Buzzard labs, Friday,
November 7, 9
- 11 a.m. Computer work plus team mini-field trips.
Children evaluate Web sites
for team recommendation and resources, review of previous hero sites as
models, saving of images for IH team Web page.
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 team's
choosing
about the childhood, culture, timeline, adulthood, achievements and
contributions, and home geography
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
contribute 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". ISTE
standards for technology. Getting ready to teach Inspiration.
For facilitators: review of Netscape Composer. (Mrs.
Barford's tutorial)
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!
***Second WOW
Computer Lab Day #2, Friday, November 14, 9-11
Team mni-field trips. Using
Inspiration to teach. Writing 'What we learned' pages and
'__________is a hero of freedom because...' pages, creating the
Inspiration
concept map, the mini-field trip page as possible, an 'interesting
facts' page, maps, geography
etc. Creating the podcast.
Lab Day #2 handouts will be provided.-- the
Audacity tutorial for creating a podcast
Week 9, November 11
Class on campus, Tuesday, November 11 and at C.S. November 13.
Conflict resolution
via model personalities. Revisiting
values education. MLK video, plus
consideration
of Addams, Chavez, Jackie Robinson, Marian Anderson, and current
heroes
of non-violence.
Social justice issues in the elementary
curriculum. Child Labor video (AFT and
NCSS production).
Task: Quiz, "Unmotivated Teacher/
Unmotivated
Student" Teach FH lesson plan #5
Lesson plan due for teaching the timeline, November 29.
Week 10, November 18
Class on campus, Tuesday, November 18, at
C.S. Thursday, November 20,
FH team plan #6
Authentic Thanksgiving curriculum. 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.
Review -- how to avoid stereotypes when
teaching
another
culture. Children's literature for the Native Americans.
Respectful approach to myths. The
'ecological Indian' thesis. (If time --Follow the five Native
American
culture centers, collecting the handouts and implementing the
activities at each center) Issues
with solstice holidays and Christmas in the classroom.
Task:
Teaching IH lesson
plan #6. Writing the IH team test.
Sharing Thanksgiving plenty~~ 
Save
the children.org
Week 11, December 2
Class on campus,
Tuesday, December 2, at C.S. Thursday, December 4, at 9:45 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. During the fall,
2006, the U.S. population will surpass 300,000,000. 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? Suggested population activities
for young children. Population Connection video, Bill
Nye population video,
climatecrisis.net,
pbs.org
Strategies, activities, and resources
for population education.
Task:
Administer IH team
quiz. Be sure Mini-field trip thank you notes are sent
Final plans for WOW Open House Final organization of
children's WOW folders.
Week 12, December 9
Class on campus,
Tuesday, December 9, at C.S. Thursday, December 11, at 9:45 a.m
***Open House.EIU, December
16,
6:30 to 7:30***
Final Exam: Tuesday,
December 16, 10:15 a.m.
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