integrating travel into the social studies classroom ocss 2012
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Dave Harms
Penta Career Center
Integrating Travel Into The Social Studies Classroom
Traditional 10-12 Social Studies
Career Center
Online, Hybrid, and Traditional Post Secondary
About Me
All students have a talent – but not all of the talents show up academically
*Places Traveled
*Cuba – 2011 (Parents)
*Mexico 2006/ 2011 (Parents)
*Jordan – 2010 (Fulbright)
*China – 2005 (Freeman Foundation)
*Germany (2010)/ France/ Belgium 2002 (Fulbright/ BGSU)
*West Africa (Ghana, Togo, Benin) – 2002 (BGSU)
*Women's Place in Society
*West Africa Symbols
*Chinese Footbinding/ Confucianism
*Jordanian Women
*Barriers to Development
*African Infrastructure
*Political Corruption (Togo, Mexico, China)
*Effect of US embargo on Cuba
*Internet Blockage or Lack of Access (China, Cuba, Jordan, Africa)
*Historical
*Mayan Math and Calendar
*Effect of slavery on Africa (Ganvie’)
*Bay of Pigs/ Cuban Missile Crises (Cuba)
*French Revolution (France)
* Current Issues for the United States
*Communist Competition (China)
*What will happen when Castro dies? (Cuba)
*Trade Imbalance (China)
*Genocide
*History of Belgian Free State (Congo)
*Guantanamo Bay (Cuba)
*Weiger Massacre (China)
*Environment
*EU Driving Differences
*Chinese Dams and pollution
*Mexico and the VW Bug Classico
*Illegal Nigerian Gas
*Disease
*African AIDs Research
*Bird Flu
*Mad Cow (US meat illegal in EU)
*Malaria (West Nile)
*Current Events
*December 21, 2012 (Mexico)
*Chinese Counterfeiting (toothpaste/ Chinese Chicken in Jordan)
*EU Army
*US Position in the Middle East
*Ownership of Archeological Artifacts (Spain’s claim on Latin American Gold v France’s claim on the African gold)
*Blood Diamonds
*Religion
*Islam v Christianity v Judaism (Jordan)
*Confucianism v Buddhism v Daoism (China)
*Maya v Roman Catholic (Mexico)
*Nuclear Proliferation
*Nuclear Energy v Weapons (China)
*Illegal Sale of Weapons (US, France)
*Jordan v Israel
*EU (NATO v US interest)
*Government
*Monarchy (Jordan)
*Communism (China, Cuba)
*Different Versions of Democracy (Ghana, Benin, Germany, France, Mexico)
*Perception
*Jordanian, Chinese, Cuban view of America
*American view of Jordan/ China/ Cuba/ Mexico
*History textbooks (Cuba)
*Immigration
*Germany, France, Mexico……US
*JORDAN (pop increase 2/3)
*Han Chinese v Rest of China
IraqiPalestinian
Jordanian
