Key words: Instructional Strategies, Social Studies, K-12
Document: 1 2
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:07:47 EST
Reply-To: A Practical Discussion List Regarding Deaf Education
Sender: A Practical Discussion List Regarding Deaf Education
From: Cathy Brandt Subject: Transportation?
Comments: To: edudeaf@UKCC.uky.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list EDUDEAF
Hi folks,
When we return from Spring Break on the 15th we will be starting a
unit on
Transportation. Anyone have any neat ideas, activities, resources, etc?
I've been thinking about a Transportation Timeline and use the Tom
Snyder
Timeliner software. Any thoughts about what else I might include
with this?
I plan to do trading and transporting goods with the older kids.
I'd like to have some ideas on cumulative projects.
Thanks
Cathy - who is brain dead and couldn't put a lesson plan together at
this
minute if her life depended upon it
Document: 1 2
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:56:24 -0500
Reply-To: A Practical Discussion List Regarding Deaf Education
Sender: A Practical Discussion List Regarding Deaf Education
From: Mcfdyn@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Transportation?
To: Multiple recipients of list EDUDEAF Cathy,
How about tying transportation into a geography unit. Pick a few (or a lot,
doesn't matter) countries, then have the students research the means of
transportation used in each country and compare it to the transportation in
the U.S. Have a World Transportation Day in which students demonstrate their
results for the rest of the school.
Have a transporation fair (kinda like a science fair). Each student picks a
form of transportation (specific, such as milk truck, or general, such as
trucks). They must
prepare a display which would include a model (or models) that they've made
themselves, a poster and an informational presentation (signed, spoken or
written). In our science fairs we gave about 40% weight to the kids' explanations of the
project and the science supporting it (in our case, in either English or
Spanish). You could also do this or have the students spead out in twos or
threes to share their projects with other classes. I think it's important
that students learn to share information; this is more interesting than just
making a report for the teacher or even for their own classmates.
kathy mcfadyen
Uploaded by: Melissa Close/Kent State University/Deaf Education Major
Document 2 of 2