1:1 Teaching in Social Studies Matthew Jaeger

Bellevue High SchoolBellevue, Iowa

Purpose of Presentation

0Show other educators what we at Bellevue High School are doing in the Social Studies classroom. We will focus on resources and projects we use in the classroom.

Bellevue High School

0Third Year of 1:1 in High School

0Middle School is roughly 2:1

0Future for Us

0 Google

0 iPad, Macbook, or PC in the High School?

What I Do

0Classes0 United States History0 Government0 Current Issues0 History Through Film

0Teach Thematically 0 Migration0 Economics0 Social0 War & Foreign Policy

U.S. History Essential Question

0What is the American Identity?0Unique Individuals?0Freedom?0Conflict?

0Based on the works of…0Eric Foner0 Joy Hakim0 James Percoco

Goal of 1:1 Computing

0Do what you do

0Focus on Individual Discovering and Applying what is taught

0Make the students tired, not me

0Allows me to teach freely, not constrained by textbook.

Social Studies Resources

EDMODO

0www.edmodo.com

Digital History

0www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

Hippo Campus

0www.hippocampus.org

DOCS Teach

0www.docsteach.org

iCivics

0www.icivics.org

Living Room Candidate

0www.livingroomcandidate.org

Smithsonian Education

0www.smithsonianeducation.org

Library of Congress

0www.loc.gov/teachers

0http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html

PBS

0http://www.pbs.org/teachers

Memorial Websites

0http://www.vvmf.org/teachersguide

0http://www.911memorial.org/teach-learn

0http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=education.asp&subpage=teachersguide

New York Times

0http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20031229monday.html

Buck Institute of Education

0www.bie.org

Stanford History Education Group

0http://sheg.stanford.edu/home_page

Classroom Projects

Oregon Trail Google Map

0 It is the year of 1835 and you and your family are moving west on the Oregon Trail. It’s is your job to draw a map of the route you and your family take, and to keep a journal of all of the events that occur. You will be doing this by creating a map in Google Maps. Along with that you will need to create 10 journals that will be placed into the Google Map. Your journals should include information about your journey, hardships/tragedies, things you see, and how you feel.

Oregon Trail Google Map

0Requirements0 Complete Map Line (from the Midwest to the West

Coast)0 10 Journal Entries

07 that are hand wrote and include a picture (1 Paragraphs)03 that are video journals (30 seconds to 1 minute)

Oregon Trail Google Map

0Examples0 https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=2044862394

07568288680.0004ca879b7e45ff402c7&msa=0

0 https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204490463002848517001.0004ca878e83690ff0f53&msa=0

Great Depression PBL Project

0Examples0 http://allisonkilburg10.wix.com/economics 0 https://sites.google.com/site/civilianconservationcoprs

/home

Civil Rights ShowMe

0http://www.showme.com/Matt-Jaeger

African American Digital History Website

http://bellevue.k12.ia.us/faculty/middlehigh-school/social-studies/mr-jaeger/united-states-history-3/african-american-history-online-exhibit/