DAY 3
AEA-9 Teaching American History Grant Project
Monday, June 27th  and August 1, 2005
AGENDA
8:30-3:30

COMMUNITY BUILDING
Workshop Description: This workshop places emphasis on three important instructional elements. 
  • First, it is structured around Iowa history, a required element in the elementary school curriculum and other important social studies themes.  
  • Second, this workshop will utilize online resources available to students anytime anywhere. 
  • Third, this workshop will help teachers identify ways to link the study of history to other important areas of the curriculum including but not limited to reading, writing, literature, science, and mathematics. 
Workshop Outcomes: What will the participants know and be able to do as a result of this workshop?
           
Outcomes:
  • Teachers make history personal for elementary students by connecting history to sites and events familiar to students in their local environment.
  • Teachers use online resources of primary sources and virtual field trips.
  • Teachers develop an action plan for applying workshop resources to the context of the classroom.
  • Teachers develop a personal electronic portfolio.
  • Teachers archive useful web lessons and web sites for use in the classroom.
  • Teachers will align lesson planning to national history standards.
Evaluation:
Completion of the portfolio (My Teaching History Portfolio)will provide material to assess the achievement of each of the above outcomes.  The content of the portfolio will include:
  1. Developing a topic focus (connecting the familiar and the historic)
  2. Aligning the chosen topic with national, state and local standards 
  3. Producing a timeline for implementation of their topic focused unit
  4. Establishing an action plan for their unit which includes
  • Learning goals for students
  • Literature integration
  • Technology integration
  • Resources (online and in print)
  • Activities
  • Assessment plan

REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING HISTORY
How can you use narrative with your topic as a means of pre-assessing, teaching and post-assessing student learning?
  • In topic groups, develop a list of "key words or concepts" and a plan for using narrative with your topic as a means of assessing student learning in history.  Be prepared to share your results. 
RESOURCE PRESENTATION

Investigating CampSilos:  CampSilos is an educational web site focusing on the development of American agriculture. Targeting students in grades 4-8, the site provides online educational material related to
  • the natural prairie
  • pioneer farm life and early agricultural technology
  • the story of corn from its early Indian origins to the present
  • 21st century technological advances including applications of GPS and biotechnology.
Activities and lesson plans feature such diverse activities as
  • virtual field trips
  • mystery photos
  • group games
  • problem-based activities
  • primary source materials
  • scavenger hunt
  • history detective research
MY TEACHING HISTORY PORTFOLIO
Work time in topic groups to develop the following:
  • Other Professional Standards
  • KEY WORDS:  (Vocabulary words students will use in constructing a narrative for pre and post assessments)
  • LESSON PLANS: Including but not limited to: 
  • ASSESSMENT PLAN: (Linked to learning goals and aligned with lesson plans)
COMMUNITY BUILDING
  • What have we accomplished? 
  • Where are we headed?
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