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Casey Sandford Resource Portfolio Summer 2016 Georgia Southern University

Historical Understanding

Children's Literature Books Classical Greek architecture: the construction of the modern Alexander Tzonis ; Who Was Paul Revere? by Roberta Edwards

Websites/Games https://jr.brainpop.com/socialstudies/biographies/susanbanthony/sequenceorder/ ; http://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-greek-architecture.html

Teaching Ideas and Strategies  https://academics.utep.edu/Portals/1719/Publications/Marshall.pdf - Page 13 offers ideas for lesson plans ; http://www.socialstudiescms.com/#!ancient-greece/c5fe

Student Activities http://www.classroomzoom.com/lessons/374/simulation-ancient-democracy; http://www.bridgeportisd.net/Page/3270 - Students will crate a poster that reflects the life of Cesar Chaves

Standards for Historical Understanding

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 (columns on the Parthenon, U. S. Supreme Court building), law, and the Olympic Games on the present. c. Compare and contrast Athens as a direct democracy with the United States as a representative democracy

SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy. a. Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women’s rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and César Chávez (workers’ rights).

Geographic Understandings

Children's Literature Books River Song With the Banana Slug String Band by Steve Van Zandt; Over on a Mountain Somewhere in the World by Marianne Berkes

Websites Games http://www.abcya.com/latitude_and_longitude_practice.htm http://world-geography-games.com/rivers.html;

Teaching Ideas and Strategies http://nationalgeographic.org/activity/cardinal-directions-and-maps/; http://nationalgeographic.org/activity/mapping-landforms/

Student Activities http://nationalgeographic.org/activity/latitudelongitude-puzzle/ ; http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=8786

Standards for Geographical Understanding SS3G1 The student will locate major topographical features. a. Identify major rivers of the United States of America: Mississippi, Ohio, Rio Grande, Colorado, Hudson. b. Identify major mountain ranges of the United States of America: Appalachian, Rocky. c. Locate the Equator, Prime Meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude on a globe.

Government/Civic Understanding

Children's Literature Books What Are the Branches of Government? by: Jennifer Boothryd ; How the U.S. Government Works by: Syl Sobel

Website Games http://www.congressforkids.net/Constitution_threebranches.htm ; https://www.brainpop.com/games/branchesofpower/

Teaching Ideas https://kids.usa.gov/teachers/lesson-plans/government/3-branches/index.shtml ; http://www.brighthubeducation.com/lesson-plans-grades-3-5/92579-understanding-the-legislative-branch/

Student Activities http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/balancing-three-branches-once-our-system-checks-and-balances#sect-activities -Activity 4 ; http://www.dcs.k12.oh.us/Page/4401

Standards for Government/Civic Understandings SS3CG1 The student will explain the importance of the basic principles that provide the foundation of a republican form of government. a. Explain why in the United States there is a separation of power between branches of government and levels of government. b. Name the three levels of government (national, state, local) and the three branches in each (executive, legislative, judicial), including the names of the legislative branch (Congress, General Assembly, county commission or city council). c. State an example of the responsibilities of each level and branch of government.

Economic Understandings

Children's Literature Book Freckle Juice by Judy Blume ; An Orange in January by Dianne Hutts

Websites and Games http://www.cyberbee.com/economic_sites.html ; https://www.uakron.edu/barkercenter/teacher-resources/online-games/

Teaching Ideas http://www.econedlink.org/teacher-lesson/509/ ; http://www.econedlink.org/teacher-lesson/465/

Student Activities http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3760 ; http://www.thepolkadottedteacher.com/2012/02/economy-101-and-freebie.html

Standards for Economic Understandings SS3E1 The student will describe the four types of productive resources: a. Natural (land) b. Human (labor) c. Capital (capital goods) d. Entrepreneurship (used to create goods and services) SS3E2 The student will explain that governments provide certain types of goods and services in a market economy, and pay for these through taxes and will describe services such as schools, libraries, roads, police/fire protection, and military