world studies by: becky garrett melissa walker alma veldman
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World Studies
By:
Becky Garrett
Melissa Walker
Alma Veldman
AMERICAN HERITAGE
American HeritageWeb Pages
100 Years Ago Christmashttp://www.spacestar.net/users/disyme/xmas.html
American Memory From The Library Of Congresshttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem
An American Time Capsulehttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml
American HeritageWeb Pages (Cont’d)
The Time Pagehttp://www.seanet.com/~pamur/time.html
U. S. History Interactivehttp://www.geocities.com/Area51/station/5052/History.ht
American HeritageActivities
Students will create time line from a specific time in history
Students will create amendments for their classroom
Students will take a field trip to the Museum Of Natural History
American HeritageActivities (Cont’d)
Students will discuss the different types of transportation and how it has changed and make a graph
Students will make jewelry like some they have seen from history
PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES
People in SocietiesWeb Pages
First Nations Histories
http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
Afronet
http://wwwafronet.com
Anacostia Museum & Center For African American History and Culture
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/anacost/start.htm
People in SocietiesWeb Pages (Cont’d)
Jewish Community Online Resources
http://jewish.com/search/Israel
German Ways
http://www.germanways.com
People in SocietiesActivities
Students will listen to Guest Speaker John Glenn
Students will take a field trip to the Neil Armstrong Museum
Students will research a famous Ohioan and give an oral report dressed up as that person
People in SocietiesActivities (Cont’d)
Students will take a field trip to Serpent Mound/Miamisburg Mound
Students will take a field trip and see a performance of Blue Jacket
WORLD INTERACTIONS
World InteractionsWeb Pages
Mapquesthttp://www.mapquest.com/
Online Maps, Tables, and Databaseshttp://perrynet.stark.k12.oh.us/webunits/Grade4/Ohio/default.html
American Indians and the Natural Worldhttp://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/
World InteractionsWeb Pages (Cont’d)
InterActhttp://www.interaction.org
Flags of the Worldhttp://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/
World InteractionsActivities
Students will create geographical maps of a different country and identify lakes, rivers, etc.
Students will list foreign companies doing business in Ohio
Students will find Ohio companies conducting business in other countries and create a chart showing goods and services produced in other nations, but purchased in Ohio.
World InteractionsActivities (Cont’d)
Students will study Russian architecture and create buildings in that style.
Students will study Egyptian hieroglyphs and try to interpret an authentic hieroglyphic message.
DECISION MAKING & RESOURCES
Decision Making & ResourcesWeb Pages
SelectSmarthttp://www.selectsmart.com
A Web Based Interactive Stock Market Learning Project for K-12http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEyellow/gnb.html
Net Resources for Educatorshttp://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/ilm/resources/educators/ subject/SRESeconomy.html
Decision Making and Resources Web Pages (Cont’d)
Consumer Reportshttp://www.consumereports.com
Women in Decision-Makinghttp://www.db-decision.de
Decision Making & Resources Activities
Students will use the Women in Decision-Making website to research a famous woman in European politics.
Students will “go shopping” in various catalogs with a set amount of money to spend. They must decide what to buy taking into account all costs.
Students will use a decision-making grid with established criteria to compare choices in a decision.
Decision Making & Resources Activities (Cont’d)
Students will research and report the general factors that people make when buying an expensive item. (i.e. car, appliance, house, etc)
Students will decide how to spend the class’ extra free time at the end of the week.
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS
Democratic ProcessesWeb Pages
Democracy.nethttp://www.democracy.net
Politics and Democracyhttp://www.americascanada.org/politics/democratic/democratic-e.asp
Direct Democracy Centerhttp://www.realdemocracy.com
Democratic ProcessesWeb Pages (Cont’d)
Inside the White Househttp://www.pbs.org/weta/whitehouse/
Inauguration 2001http://www.pbs.org/newshour/inauguration
Democratic ProcessesActivities
Students will hold a mock election in class. Students will role play as the president for
a day, making decisions about different events that a president might actually experience (meetings with Cabinet members, speeches to the public,)
Students will pose their own solutions for overcoming the National Debt
Democratic ProcessesActivities (Cont’d)
Students will identify major services provided by the federal government
Students will create "quilt squares" illustrating famous people in politics; the individual squares will be combined to make one large quilt.
CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES
Citizenship RightsWeb Pages
Stand Up for Your Rightshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/civilrights
Inside the Voting Boothhttp://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/ vote/index.html
American Civil Rights Reviewhttp://webusers.anet-stl.com/~civil/
Citizenship RightsWeb Pages (Cont’d)
The Institute for Citizenshiphttp://www.citizen.org.uk
Active Citizenshiphttp://www.activecitizenship.org
Citizenship RightsActivities
Students will develop a plan for helping to fight slavery.
Students will explore the nature of rules and then work in small groups to create their own charter for a club.
Students will pinpoint causes and propose solutions to increase vote participation
Citizenship RightsActivities (Cont’d)
Students will identify problems in 19th century New York City, compare them to problems in their own area, and brainstorm possible solutions
Students will explore issues in their own community and write PSA’s for local media distribution.
CONCLUSIONAll of the activities and
websites included in this presentation can (and should)
be used in an elementary school classroom within the Social Studies curriculum. We feel as though each of
these activities will enhance the students’ knowledge of
world studies.