Margaret R. Moulton’s article about a Multigenre research project taught to college students provides information on a great learning strategy that could be applied to other levels of education. Moulton, who was teaching at a southwestern U.S. college experimented with having her students produce Multigenre projects (ones that include several different literary genres compiled together [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Unit 4 Summary: The Multigenre Paper: Increasing Interest, Motivation, and Functionality in Research
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Instructional Strategies Summary
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Chris Smithey
For some of us (teacher candidates) finding good instructional strategies that can be implemented in the classroom may be as difficult as finding the moose in the picture above. In searching for strategies for use in social studies curriculum, I found a few resources that I would implement in my classroom. I concentrated my [...]
Instructional Strategy #5: Predicting
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 10 Comments »
”The Boston Tea Party”
”Causes”
Chris Smithey
Videos: Causes and Boston Tea Party: “Predicting”
Predicting Strategy: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/isa/staff/abita/english/reading_strategies.htm
The reading strategy predicting prompts students to “decide what will happen yet.” In the example below, students will also compare their predicted answers to word bank definitions to actual ones viewed in the video.
For [...]
Instructional Strategy #4: Key Words
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Chris Smithey
American Revolution Word Search Puzzle: Key Words
http://www.thepotters.com/puzzles/revolution.html
The reading strategy of familiarizing the student with Key Words from a particular curriculum or text can be illustrated through this activity. Prior to students’ exploration of the American Revolution, they complete a simple word search puzzle which contains terms and names from the era. This initial familiarization [...]
Instructional Strategy #3: Clarifying
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Smithey
Declaration of Independence Worksheet: Clarifying
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec4/Unit_4/Unit_IVQ1R3.html
The reading strategy of Clarifying text is used when students complete a Declaration of Independence worksheet containing questions regarding specific text contained within the historic document. Clarifying helps students find clearer meaning of text that can be complicated in nature, or written in a style that may not be [...]
Instructional Strategy #2: Evaluating
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chris Smithey
History Frames/Story Maps: Evaluating
http://www.readingquest.org/strat/storymaps.html
Utilizing “a tool that students probably already possess…” History Frames allow students to explore historical events using the same elements that are used in literature study: setting, character, plot, and theme.
ReadingQuest asserts that the same connections can be made in a study of historical events, namely: where and when [...]
Instructional Strategy #1: Activating Prior Knowledge
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Chris Smithey
ABC Brainstorming: Activating Prior Knowledge
http://www.readingquest.org/strat/abc.html
ABC Brainstorming is a great way to trigger students’ knowledge of any subject. For this unit, we will explore the American Revolution, which is studied in grade 8 Social Studies. The strategy will work for any subject matter, in any curriculum.
According to ReadingQuest.org, before students can explore a particular [...]
American Revolution: School House ROCK!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Check out this School House Rock video on the American Revolution…Grade Eight Social Studies students will hopefully enjoy it. I believe video resources can be especially helpful with EC students who might not respond to traditional lessons quite as well.
Content Area Materials…Summary
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For this unit I explored an array of sites that provide resource material for both teachers and students in the History of North Carolina curriculum (Grade Eight Social Studies). Two that I found most helpful were the North Carolina Museum of History website and The UNC School of Education site LEARN NC. These two sites [...]
Content Area Materials #1 (for Grade Eight Social Studies)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Chris Smithey
Education Resources-North Carolina Museum of History
http://nchistoryresources.org
The North Carolina Museum of History
As a teaching resource, this site is (in my opinion) great. Included in the information is a list of specific curriculum goals and museum resources that apply. Simply select the “curriculum” tab, enter the grade, subject, and goal; the site will then produce [...]
