Georgia Council for Social Studies Conference

October 19, 2007

GaETC, November 15, 2007

Lauren Fancher

Cool for School: GPS Social Studies Resources in GALILEO

What is GALILEO?

Georgia’s Statewide Virtual Library provided by the state to K12Full of licensed content such Encyclopedia Britannica, EBSCO, and SIRS productsUnique Georgia content such as the New Georgia Encyclopedia and the Digital Library of Georgia collections

WWW.GALILEO.USG.EDU

Georgia Performance Standards

Include both skills (map & globe and intellectual processing skills) and topics that can be addressed with content in GALILEOMany GALILEO resources include educator resources, including links to content via the GPS curriculum, activities, and other materials. Lexile rankings.GALILEO works with the DOE to increase the integration of GALILEO content into the GPS portal, MyGaDOE

Examples of GPS Standards and GALILEO

Examples of materials in GALILEO for particular GPS standards for social studies

K-12

Images, maps, interactive materials, primary source documents, encyclopedia articles, articles from magazines,newspapers, and journals, books and pamphlets, reviewed websites, and more

KindergartenSYMBOLS OF AMERICA

Historical Understandings SSKH1 The student will identify the purposeof national holidays and describe the peopleor events celebrated.a. Labor Day

b. Columbus Day (Christopher Columbus)

c. Veterans Day

d. Thanksgiving Day

e. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

f. Presidents Day (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the current President)

g. Memorial Day h. Flag Day i. Independence Day

GALILEO > K12 > Elementary

Database: Britannica Online School Edition: Britannica Elementary– Search: Thanksgiving Day– View: Thanksgiving article

Database: Britannica Online School Edition: Compton’s by Britannica for Middle School– Search: Thanksgiving Day– View: Thanksgiving article

Grade One AMERICAN HEROES

Historical Understandings SS1H2 The student will read or listento American folktales and explain howthey characterize our national heritage.The study will include John Henry,Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett,Paul Bunyan, and Annie Oakley.

GALILEO > K12 > Elementary

Database: Sirs Discoverer– Search: Paul Bunyan– View: Babe the Blue Ox, from American

Folklore– View: Fantastic Folk Heroes, from Boy’s

Life

Grade TwoGEORGIA, MY STATE

Historical Understandings SS2H1 The student will read about anddescribe the lives of historical figures inGeorgia history. a. Identify the contributionsmade by these historic figures: JamesOglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove(founding of Georgia); Sequoyah (developmentof a Cherokee alphabet); Jackie Robinson(sports); Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights);Jimmy Carter (leadership and human rights).

GALILEO > Digital Library of Georgia

Search: Mary Musgrove

View: New Georgia Encyclopedia Article: Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700-ca. 1763)

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Grade ThreeOUR DEMOCRATIC HERITAGE

Historical Understandings

SS3H1 The student will explain the political roots of our modern democracy in the United States of America.

a. Identify the influence of Greek architecture (Parthenon, U. S. Supreme Court building), law, and the Olympic Games on the present.

GALILEO >Arts and Humanities>Arts and Architecture

Database: Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia

Search: Greek Architecture

View: Pictures of houses from all over Georgia

GALILEO >K12 >Elementary

Database: EBSCO Image Search

Search: Parthenon

View: All Images by flipping

GALILEO >K12 >Elementary

Database: Britannica Elementary

Search: U.S. Supreme Court Building

Grade Four

UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1860 Historical Understandings

SS4H4 The student will explain the causes, events, and results of the American Revolution.

c. Describe the major events of the Revolution and explain the factors leading to American victory and British defeat; include the Battles of Lexington and Concord and Yorktown.

Grade Four

UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1860 Geographic Understandings

SS4G1 The student will be able to locate important physical and man-made features in the United States.

b. Locate major man-made features; include New York City, NY; Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; and the Erie Canal.

Database: Searchasaurus

Category: History

Subcategory>Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

Article: Not So Hidden History, Boy’s Life

Next - Search: Revolutionary Battles

GALILEO >K12 >Elementary

Grade Five

UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1860 Historical Understandings

SS5H6 The student will explain the reasons for America’s involvement in World War II.

e. Describe the effects of rationing and the changing role of women and African- Americans; include “Rosie the Riveter” and the Tuskegee Airmen.

Browse by collection name “S”

Collection: Ships for Victory

View all Photographs

Female welder

GALILEO >Digital Library of Georgia

Grade SixUNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1860

Economic Understandings

SS6E2 The student will give examples of how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Latin America and the Caribbean and Canada.

c. Analyze the development and impact of trade blocks such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR), and Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

GALILEO >K12 >Middle

Database: Kids Search

NAFTA

Filter ResultsPhotosRadio and TV News Transcripts

Reading Across The Curriculum

SS6RC1 Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by:

a. Reading in All Curriculum Areas ･ Read a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate

books per year from a variety of subject disciplines and participate in discussions related to curricular learning in all areas.

･ Read both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse.

･ Read technical texts related to various subject areas.

GALILEO >K12 >Middle

Database: NoveList K-8

Teacher Resources

Grab and Go Book Lists

Grades 6-8

Immigration, Mid-20th to Late 20th Century

Grade SevenAFRICA AND ASIA

Geographic Understandings

SS7G1 The student will be able to describe and locate the important physical and human characteristics of Africa.

b. Describe and locate the nations of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Kenya, and Chad.

GALILEO >K12 >Middle

Database: SIRS Discoverer

Country Facts

Zimbabwe

Also: Educator ResourcesCorrelated to Standards

GeorgiaSocial Studies

Grade 7Geographic UnderstandingSS7G1

Grade Eight

Georgia Studies Historical Understandings

SS8H5 The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.

d. Analyze the events that led to the removal of Creeks and Cherokees; include the roles of Alexander McGillivray, William McIntosh, Sequoyah, John Ross, Dahlonega Gold Rush, Worcester v. Georgia, Andrew Jackson, John Marshall, and the Trail of Tears.

>GALILEO >Digital Library of Georgia

Search: Cherokee Removal

Collection: "Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s

Grades 9-12

American Government/Civics SSCG3 The student will demonstrate

knowledge of the United States Constitution.

a. Explain the main ideas in debate over ratification; include those in The Federalist.

b. Analyze the purpose of government stated in the Preamble of the United States Constitution.

c. Explain the fundamental principles upon which the United States Constitution is based; include the rule of law, popular sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and balances, and

federalism.

GALILEO > K12 >High School

Database: Annals of American History

Timeline

1784-1796: Organizing a New Nation

Also, Search: Constitution

Grades 9-12Economics

Macroeconomic Concepts

SSEMA1 The student will illustrate the means by which economic activity is measured.

a. Explain that overall levels of income, employment, and prices are determined by the spending and production decisions of households, businesses, government, and net exports.

b. Define Gross Domestic Product (GDP), economic growth, unemployment, Consumer Price Index (CPI), inflation, stagflation, and aggregate supply and aggregate demand.

c. Explain how economic growth, inflation, and unemployment are calculated.

d. Identify structural, cyclical, and frictional unemployment.

e. Define the stages of the business cycle, as well as recession and depression.

f. Describe the difference between the national debt and government deficits.

GALILEO > K12 >High School

Database: SIRS Researcher

Pro Vs. CON Leading Issues

More Issues

UnemploymentOverviewPro/ConMy AnalysisPDF Research Guide Interactive

Grades 9-12

World Geography SSWG3 The student will describe the

interaction of physical and human systems that have shaped contemporary North Africa/Southwest Asia.

a. Describe the location of major physical features and their impact on North Africa/Southwest Asia.

b. Describe the major climates of North Africa/Southwest Asia and how they have affected the development of North Africa/Southwest Asia.

c. Analyze the impact natural resources, especially oil, have on North Africa/Southwest Asia.

d. Analyze the impact of water supplies on the growth of population centers.

e. Explain the impact of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the development of the region ﾕ s culture.

f. Explain why this region contains areas on two different continents.

g. Describe the major ethnic and cultural groups in North Africa/Southwest Asia; include major customs and traditions.

GALILEO>K12 >High School

Database: World Data AnalystCompare Countries Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia Life expectancy, female Annual average growth rate Per cent of population, Muslim Population estimates Refining capacity

Create a Chart

Grades 9-12World History

SSWH14 The student will analyze the Age of Revolutions and Rebellions.

a. Examine absolutism through a comparison of the rules of Louis XIV, Tsar Peter the Great, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

b. Identify the causes and results of the revolutions in England (1689), United States (1776), France (1789), Haiti (1791), and Latin America (1808-1825).

c. Explain Napoleon’s rise to power, and his defeat; and explain the consequences for Europe.

d. Examine the interaction of China and Japan with westerners; include the Opium War, the Taiping Rebellion, and

Commodore Perry.

GALILEO >High School

Database: World History CollectionSearch: Opium War Article: American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in

Nineteenth-Century China.

>GALILEO >High School >Database:Student Research CenterSearch: Tokugawa IeyasuArticle: Techniques that made ninjas feared in

15th-century Japan still set the standard for covert ops.

Take Away

GALILEO is provided by the State of Georgia to K12 at no cost to the schoolAccess from school is seamless because GALILEO knows your school networkStudents and teachers can access GALILEO from home with a password (ask your media specialist)Amazing resources are available for every age group for Social Studies GPSBetter than the Internet alone!www.galileo.usg.edu

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