Session
Opening the Window to Korean Literature for Elementary Children
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmLearn how Korean children's literature can integrate reading, language arts and social studies with engaging lessons. CD's of lesson plans will be provided.
How to Succeed in Business: First Grade Entrepreneurs in Action
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmTeaching about entrepreneurship is easier than you think. Students delight in developing a product with classmates, while learning about microfinancing, collateral, a business plan, market research, production, advertising, and pricing.
Mental Maps: A Specialized Window to Geographic Literacy
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmCo-teachers present interactive lessons from Developing Mental Maps, a State of Delaware Prioritized Model Unit, using literature, manipulatives, geo-graphics, and online resources. Participants engage in conversations about geographic literacy.
Windows to Ourselves: Integrating Literature & Thematic Units into History
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmCommon Core requires us to be literacy teachers. Discover ways to incorporate literature, poetry, music, and film into thematic units guided by Essential Questions that connect to students. Materials provided!
Best Practice in Thoughtful Elementary Social Studies
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmSocial Studies & the Young Learner Editorial Board-sponsored session on best practices in elementary school social studies.
History as Verb: American Revolution and the War of 1812
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmTablets and eBooks can encourage students to “do history.” Two NCSS endorsed iBooks, “It’s 1776: Should I Stay or Go?” and “It’s 1812: Who Won the War?", will be highlighted.
A Literacy-Based Approach to Teaching Tolerance in the 21st Century
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmParticipants will preview a new K-12 curriculum that connects multicultural content, culturally relevant instruction, and the rigor of the Common Core literacy standards. This session focuses on media literacy.
Doing and Learning History through Literacy, Interdisciplinary, and Digital Strategies
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmThis presentation will use primary sources, literature, and technology as tools to engage students in the study of history through content examples such as Underground Railroad escape stories. Materials provided!
Digital Heroes! Engaging Students Globally with the MY HERO Project
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmOpen the world of character education through MY HERO's online resources! Using global galleries of student-submitted photos, stories, and films, empower your students as critical viewers-- and contributors-- about heroes.
A Day in the Life of a Child-- Rwanda
Submitted by TimDaly on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:58pmWhat is it like to grow up in Sub-Saharan Africa? How are our lives different or similar? Explore modern Rwanda through the photographs and interviews of Rwandan youth.
