Posted in civil rights, images, lesson plans, teaching, tip of the week on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
A great way to get kids to emotionally connect with your content is by using something called an “I am” poem.
It allows students to think a bit more about how a particular person might be thinking in very specific ways. Last week I was reminded of the power of the strategy when about 20 [...]
Posted in civil rights, history, lesson plans, primary sources, social studies, teaching on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s the last day of instruction here at Gilder Lehrman’s elementary summer seminar and I think most of us are dragging a bit. Honi, Bunny and Texas are even slowing down!
But we had another great conversation this morning about the Civil Rights movement and another nice activity planned by Fritz Fischer.
We split into four groups [...]
Posted in google, google docs, google tools, lesson plans, technology integration on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
In an earlier post I suggested that Google Earth was like the Swiss Army knife of 21st century tools. If GE is the Swiss Army knife, Google Docs has to be at least a screwdriver.
It’s always been a handy gadget and Google has always worked to improve the product.
And now the Google Docs people have [...]
Posted in government, history, lesson plans, primary sources, social studies on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Still in Boulder with the Gilder Lehrman elementary school/primary sources seminar and still having some great conversations!
Today? Which comes first?
Specifically . . . in the United States - did the institution of slavery cause racism or did European racism create American slavery?
Fritz Fischer had us look at a few of the earliest laws of Virginia [...]
Posted in government, history, lesson plans, social studies, teaching on July 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Was the American Revolutionary War really revolutionary? Was it a true revolution? Dr. Fritz Fischer talked about this late on Monday afternoon.
He started by asking the question:
If you had to think of a shape that describes Colonial American, what would that shape look like?
He suggests that the shape would be a triangle or pyramid with [...]
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