Here's another unit designed to integrate technology into a content area subject. This time around, I was asked to create a social studies lesson. Wanting to create materials that I can use when I'm teaching 5th grade next year, I looked over the 5th grade standards provided by UAS, the school where I'll be teaching in Kuwait. One of the focuses of social studies in the 5th grade curriculum is the five themes of geography. This also happens to be the topic covered by the 6th grade social studies teachers at my current school.
Deciding to kill two birds with one stone (1. Create something that I can use. 2. Share technology integration ideas and that will help my current colleagues), I found some technology-light materials that my colleagues use now and gave their lesson a make-over. The powerpoint below is adapted from a presentation created by the 6th grade social studies teachers at Mills Park Middle (Allison Vroome, Cheri Pederson, Karen Varney, Greg Cretin, and Anne Axburg). The multimedia poster I describe below is inspired from a hand-drawn one-pager about a student's favorite place that these teachers designed. Introduce the 5 Themes of Geography with this Powerpoint PresentationReview
Here are a few materials that I created (Quizlet) or found (International Pizza Delivery Game, Kahoot) to help the students review the vocabulary and concepts discussed in the 5 Themes of Geography presentation.
Investigate and Create
After introducing the students to the 5 Themes of Geography and reviewing them, have the students deepen their learning as they research a place of their choosing.
Introduce students to tools that will help them gather information for their "Places of Importance" projects.
Ideas for Extensions
Pinterest's new mapping option would be a cool extension for this project. With 5th grade students, I would likely be curating my students' work myself, but older students could collaborate to create a board. Anyway, I would pin my students' posters to a board with the students' project location as markers on the map. This could be a great tool for the students to explore and to use with future projects (like the folktale project that I described in an earlier post).
Connecting to the Curriculum
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Wenting
6/14/2015 09:45:33 am
This is an amazing lesson plan. The powerpoint presentation and Quizlet review will help students learn and retain the definitions of the five themes of geography. I like your use of international pizza delivery game to have students practice latitude and longitude and I also like that you give students choices of tools to do research. Your directions and rubrics will scaffold students performance well. Awesome job!
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Kitt
6/15/2015 08:45:47 am
Wow! So many new tools which I was not familiar with before! This is an incredible lesson. There are so many different activities that you are definitely meeting the needs of all students. Personally speaking, I can't wait to explore Pinterest's new mapping option "Mapping Place Pins!"
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