world studies by: becky garrett melissa walker alma veldman

World Studies

By:

Becky Garrett

Melissa Walker

Alma Veldman

AMERICAN HERITAGE

American HeritageWeb Pages

100 Years Ago Christmashttp://www.spacestar.net/users/disyme/xmas.html

American Memory From The Library Of Congresshttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem

An American Time Capsulehttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml

American HeritageWeb Pages (Cont’d)

The Time Pagehttp://www.seanet.com/~pamur/time.html

U. S. History Interactivehttp://www.geocities.com/Area51/station/5052/History.ht

American HeritageActivities

Students will create time line from a specific time in history

Students will create amendments for their classroom

Students will take a field trip to the Museum Of Natural History

American HeritageActivities (Cont’d)

Students will discuss the different types of transportation and how it has changed and make a graph

Students will make jewelry like some they have seen from history

PEOPLE IN SOCIETIES

People in SocietiesWeb Pages

First Nations Histories

http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html

Afronet

http://wwwafronet.com

Anacostia Museum & Center For African American History and Culture

http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/anacost/start.htm

People in SocietiesWeb Pages (Cont’d)

Jewish Community Online Resources

http://jewish.com/search/Israel

German Ways

http://www.germanways.com

People in SocietiesActivities

Students will listen to Guest Speaker John Glenn

Students will take a field trip to the Neil Armstrong Museum

Students will research a famous Ohioan and give an oral report dressed up as that person

People in SocietiesActivities (Cont’d)

Students will take a field trip to Serpent Mound/Miamisburg Mound

Students will take a field trip and see a performance of Blue Jacket

WORLD INTERACTIONS

World InteractionsWeb Pages

Mapquesthttp://www.mapquest.com/

Online Maps, Tables, and Databaseshttp://perrynet.stark.k12.oh.us/webunits/Grade4/Ohio/default.html

American Indians and the Natural Worldhttp://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/

World InteractionsWeb Pages (Cont’d)

InterActhttp://www.interaction.org

Flags of the Worldhttp://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/

World InteractionsActivities

Students will create geographical maps of a different country and identify lakes, rivers, etc.

Students will list foreign companies doing business in Ohio

Students will find Ohio companies conducting business in other countries and create a chart showing goods and services produced in other nations, but purchased in Ohio.

World InteractionsActivities (Cont’d)

Students will study Russian architecture and create buildings in that style.

Students will study Egyptian hieroglyphs and try to interpret an authentic hieroglyphic message.

DECISION MAKING & RESOURCES

Decision Making & ResourcesWeb Pages

SelectSmarthttp://www.selectsmart.com

A Web Based Interactive Stock Market Learning Project for K-12http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEyellow/gnb.html

Net Resources for Educatorshttp://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/ilm/resources/educators/ subject/SRESeconomy.html

Decision Making and Resources Web Pages (Cont’d)

Consumer Reportshttp://www.consumereports.com

Women in Decision-Makinghttp://www.db-decision.de

Decision Making & Resources Activities

Students will use the Women in Decision-Making website to research a famous woman in European politics.

Students will “go shopping” in various catalogs with a set amount of money to spend. They must decide what to buy taking into account all costs.

Students will use a decision-making grid with established criteria to compare choices in a decision.

Decision Making & Resources Activities (Cont’d)

Students will research and report the general factors that people make when buying an expensive item. (i.e. car, appliance, house, etc)

Students will decide how to spend the class’ extra free time at the end of the week.

DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

Democratic ProcessesWeb Pages

Democracy.nethttp://www.democracy.net

Politics and Democracyhttp://www.americascanada.org/politics/democratic/democratic-e.asp

Direct Democracy Centerhttp://www.realdemocracy.com

Democratic ProcessesWeb Pages (Cont’d)

Inside the White Househttp://www.pbs.org/weta/whitehouse/

Inauguration 2001http://www.pbs.org/newshour/inauguration

Democratic ProcessesActivities

Students will hold a mock election in class. Students will role play as the president for

a day, making decisions about different events that a president might actually experience (meetings with Cabinet members, speeches to the public,)

Students will pose their own solutions for overcoming the National Debt

Democratic ProcessesActivities (Cont’d)

Students will identify major services provided by the federal government

Students will create "quilt squares" illustrating famous people in politics; the individual squares will be combined to make one large quilt.

CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES

Citizenship RightsWeb Pages

Stand Up for Your Rightshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/civilrights

Inside the Voting Boothhttp://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/ vote/index.html

American Civil Rights Reviewhttp://webusers.anet-stl.com/~civil/

Citizenship RightsWeb Pages (Cont’d)

The Institute for Citizenshiphttp://www.citizen.org.uk

Active Citizenshiphttp://www.activecitizenship.org

Citizenship RightsActivities

Students will develop a plan for helping to fight slavery.

Students will explore the nature of rules and then work in small groups to create their own charter for a club.

Students will pinpoint causes and propose solutions to increase vote participation

Citizenship RightsActivities (Cont’d)

Students will identify problems in 19th century New York City, compare them to problems in their own area, and brainstorm possible solutions

Students will explore issues in their own community and write PSA’s for local media distribution.

CONCLUSIONAll of the activities and

websites included in this presentation can (and should)

be used in an elementary school classroom within the Social Studies curriculum. We feel as though each of

these activities will enhance the students’ knowledge of

world studies.