Sunday, February 25, 2007
Teaching Social Studies Unit
Well, I have taught both of my Unit One lessons and things went really well. I was very concerned in how the students would react to my teaching them since that is not what they are used to, but they did well. Amanda and I did our first Unit in Social Studies. We were given the topic of South America and other than that, it was left fairly wide open. I focused on the ideas of map skills on the first day and then applied the first lesson to the second and we look at various things about South America (i.e. landforms, directions, distances, etc.). We are teaching Science next and are still digging through ideas of the direction to go for that, but luckily Spring Break is coming and we can really dive in and get some things done during that time! So far, things are going well and I hope the same is true for others!
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What grade level are you teaching? MaCall and I are teaching first graders. Our next unit is Social Studies. Our CT gave us a huge list of things to tie in like holidays, art, community, and culture. At first, we thought this task was going to be so hard. But after talking to Dr. Besnoy, we have decided to talk about the spring holidays, what thye mean around the world and within the different cultures, talk about art. Like for Easter, people dye eggs, this is an artistic activity. Who knows, we may even have then color some eggs. Any ideas?
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