Joanne Prettyman
SLM 521
Elective #7 –
Instruction
Collaboration
This site is designed for
Social Studies teachers, grades 7-12. There are 10 collaborative internet sites
to visit and ten lessons highlighted. Visit the sites, choose the annotated lesson,
or explore the site and find other lessons of interest to you and your class.
Racial
discrimination is alive and kicking in our nation, our state(s), and our
town(s). It doesn’t seem to matter where one lives – the discrimination is all
around us. The following lesson plan deals with that issue. The lesson itself
is broken down into three parts: 1.) an introduction to race; 2.) racial
discrimination: influences and impacts; and 3.) positive steps against racial
discrimination. Not only does this lesson address the issue, it attempts to
empower the teenager to change the ideology behind racism. Date visited:
“Students
may believe that racism is limited to individual actions; they may be
unfamiliar with the concept of institutional racism which occurs when racism is
supported by governmental policies and laws. In addition, students may not
realize that people of all colors have worked to dismantle racism. This lesson
will clarify the institutional nature of racism and ways people organize for
change.” (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/discrim/race.asp)
Have your students
follow eight kids trekking and exploring
http://www.ustrek.org/
We wake up, we go
into the bathroom, we turn on the tap, we get a drink of water…simple? Not so
simple in most of the continent of
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/water/africa/lessons/MSlang01/index.html
Mrs. Prettyman,
where do I find the country of
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/lessons/poster96.html
If you’re looking
for adventure, adventure on two wheels, this is the site for you. This site
offers the social studies teacher an eye view into touring the world on a bike
tour.
Date visited:
http://wneo.org/gasp/activities.htm
Looking for your
roots?! This family history site can cover a wide range of lessons or some
mini-lessons. Its goal is to bring history alive for students by showing them
that every person has a link, a role, in the history of mankind. Students will
register, create a family database, research links, share information, create a
“family book,” and complete writing activities. It’s great for students of all
ages! Date visited:
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/FamHistory/
This site is neat –
a neat site that offers cross-curriculum lesson plans for social studies,
science, health, and math, to name a few! Students research and compile grocery
list data; create a spreadsheet; and compare data. That data is compiled as a
class, state, country, and the world. Neat! Date visited:
http://www.landmark-project.com/ggl/participating.html
This site offers
students a collaborative lesson teaching cultural diversity throughout the
globe. Online introductions are written; cultural packets are created and
exchanged with partner classes, participants choose from a variety of online
activities, while participating in online discussions all over the world! Date visited:
“Friends
and Flags is headquartered in
http://www.gsn.org/programs/friendsandflags/index.html
Do your
students truly understand the national and global problem of poverty? This site
will help them understand and allow them to see poverty from the perspective of
those who suffer in it. The lesson is divided up into four sections:
1.) The
first section is an explanation of the topic; 2.) The second section is the
activity. The activities can be done in the classroom. They are designed to get
students to begin thinking about the topic as it relates to themselves and
others; 3) The next section of each unit is a community service activity. These
activities can either be done as a class, or perhaps you might want to
encourage students to do them on their own or with their family; and 4.) The
last section of each unit includes internet sites that offer solutions to the
topic or examples of programs and services that are helping people around the
world. This lesson/classroom is wonderful! Date visited:
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/poverty2000/index.asp
Do we, as
educators, and do our students understand that there are nations under siege
from wars long over? This lesson allows students to see what other schools in
the
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/banmines/index.asp