UCET+2012+-+A+GPS+Toolkit+to+Guide+Your+Social+Studies+Teaching

=Dear UCET participants,= Thank you for attending my session today. If you have any questions, I can help you with feel free to email me. My email contact information is on the UCET handout you see in the menu to the left of this message. Click on the pdf. Thanks again, and I hope you have a great year sharing your passion for Social Studies with your students. Ruth King

Time: Fri. 3/02/2012 - 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Room: **#1541** Presenter: Ruth King, Cedar Ridge Elementary School, Cedar Hills, UT Fifth Grade Teacher - Cedar Ridge Elementary, Alpine District, Utah Email – rking@alpinedistrict.org

150th Commemoration of Civil War - starts in 2011 50th Anniversary of Freedom Riders - 2011 200th Commemoration of the War of 1812 - 2012
 * __Upcoming Events for Social Studies Teachers and Students__**

= A "GPS Toolkit" to Guide Your Social Studies Teaching = =G=Geography **//P=Primary Sources S=Strategies & Technology/Other Tools//**=

Incorporate the use of geography, primary sources, thinking historically, and literacy strategies in your classroom. Receive several templates for learning strategies that intertwine historical thinking skills with literacy skills, as well as a handout with instructions for accessing the presenter's wiki webpage with templates and technology links used or referred to in this session.

//__ G __//__ = Geography __ Incorporate the use of geography daily. 1. __Daily Geography__ by Great Source (Houghton Mifflin) []

2. Map of the Month []

3. Nystrom Atlas [|http://www.nystromnet.com] and their online atlases []

4. Mailbox Magazine []

5. National Geographic Bee [|www.**nationalgeographic**.com/**GeoBee**]

6. National Geography Awareness Week
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7. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day ESRI [|www.**gisday**.com/]

8. Current Events

9. Movement – 5 things from a foreign country

**//__ P __//****__ = Primary Sources __** Incorporate the use of primary sources frequently. 1. Primary Sources for Primary Sources page – See my wiki page

2. Use analysis forms

3. Library of Congress (LOC) - []

4. Utah’s Annotated Resource Sets (ARS) [|http://utahteachingwithprimarysources.com]

5. TPS Metro state web sites for Annotated Resource Sets (ARS) []

6. Colonial Williamsburg

7. Gilder Lehrman - []

8. Oral Interviews/Students or Community Members can find Students find a primary source, Student interviews – China, England, Pearl Harbor and Congress Gallery Dec. 8th, 1941.

9. Preserve their own.

**//__ S __//****__ = Strategies __** Incorporate the use of thinking historically and literacy strategies in your classroom. 1. Two and Three Voice Poems – 13 Colonies, Patriot/Loyalist, Constitution, Civil War Egypt, Greece, Rome

2. Blow Roof Off – Revolutionary War

3. Round-Robin Questions – Constitution, Japan

4. Great resources for: Ag in Class – Strategies and Resources - []

Thinking Historically Posters and Resources - []

5. All of these support the New Utah Core Curriculum

**//__ T __//****__ = Technology/Other Tools __** Mission US Mission 1 - For Crown or Glory (Revolutionary War), Mission 2 – Flight to Freedom (Slavery) []
 * __ Other Tools and Resources For Students and Teachers __**

National Geographic Jamestown []

Plimoth Plantation []

Eduweb – An interactive website with lots of resources for teachers and students []

House Divided – The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College []

Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips - (Upcoming Titles - Remember the Ladies – March 15, The Rights of Youth – April 19) These are shown in Utah on KUED TV Channel 7 or online at: []

PBS Documentary The War of 1812 (Online DVD and Resources) []

PBS Documentary Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (Online DVD and Resources) []

**__ Don’t Forget To Take Advantage of These Great Opportunities __** Museums State Parks National Parks Local Historical Societies Local Commemorations 150th Civil War 200th War of 1812 National Park Service Cultural Festivals

Utah Council for the Social Studies (UCSS) - Held once in fall, once in spring Utah Geographic Alliance (UGA) - Will be held in early fall for 2012 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) - Seattle, WA in Nov. 2012
 * __ Professional Organizations/Conferences __**

Teaching American History Grants
 * __ Teacher Opportunities __**

//__ Summer Teacher Institutes/Travel __// *Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute *Colonial Williamsburg Summer Teacher Institute *Gilder Lehrman History Seminars *Driven 2 Teach (For Utah teachers only - Larry H. Miller/Zion’s Bank Summer History Travel) *National Endowment for the Humanities *Goethe Institute (Travel to Germany) *Keizai Koho Fellowships to Japan