Elementary Education Destination

I hope everyone is doing good as we are finishing up our Social Studies class. Less than a month and we will be out of school. Hurrah!! For Social Studies this week, I have been working on my Traditional Lesson Plan which is supposed to connect with my Flipped Lesson Plan. At first, I was perplexed at how to connect with the lesson plan I had already done. I had done my flipped lesson on the colony of Roanoke. My plan was to have students decide on a theory and debate with each other on the theory they had decided on. I decided for my Tradiontional Lesson Plan students would take the theory they had decided on and construct a trading card on Roanoke and pretend that they are acrhologiest hunting for the missing articfacts which would shed some light on what happened to the colonist of Roanoke. Have you ever heard of the Trading Card app? This app is a great tool for students to explain what they know. The app is completely free. In the opening page, the app will ask the student what ...

Greetings Everyone, I hope everyone is doing good as we come to the final weeks of school. As Dr. Parker said in his video, we are pushing toward the home run. For my social studies work this week, I have been finalizing my flipped lesson plan component. By having students watch a five-minute video, the teacher saves more time for class activities. We see the flipped component example every week in Dr. Parker's class. We watch a video before class so that he can answer our questions in class without having to go over information which is due. Students will already know what to do when they reach the classroom which will cut down on teacher instruction. For work outside of the SSED 307, I learned about a great resource called ReadWorks. This website has several lesson plans which include the standards, activities, and reading passages. My clinical educator told me that she uses read works several times for her lesson plans. http://www.readworks.org/ In connecting to the NCTP...