Time for Reflection What Do You Think?

[Skip Breadcrumb Navigation]

Home

Chapter 13

This activity contains 19 questions.

What evidence do you see in Mr. Fitzhugh's comments that he bases his instruction on accurate social studies content?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Mr. Fitzhugh insists on correct spelling of social studies terms but is not as concerned that students make professional-looking maps. Why do you think this is the case?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

What in Mr. Fitzhugh's statement indicates that he thinks students construct their own understanding of the world?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

From what Mr. Fitzhugh said, how would you describe the state of Maryland's social studies curriculum for elementary students?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

What evidence indicates Mr. Fitzhugh makes an effort to learn about students' prior knowledge?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Why do students quickly notice changes in the classroom set up for the exploratory introduction of the learning cycle on People Change Their Environments?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

What initial terms do you anticipate students associating with the word environment?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

What procedures would you use to prevent or solve the problem of students being curious about the pictures that other groups of students have?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Modifying the bulletin board helps students reconstruct their ideas about the environment and changes in it. What other activity might you use to help illustrate students' thoughts as they study?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

How did Mr. Boyd help students construct the concepts of delta and tributary?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

What examples were used to help the students construct the concept of delta?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

What inquiry skills did the students use to gather information?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

How did Mr. Boyd assess student learning of each concept?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Why do you think Mr. Boyd asked the students to make the decision about living by a lake or a river as the evaluation activity?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

What criteria would you include on a rubric for this writing assignment? How many examples would you expect in the highest quality responses?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Having completed this study of rivers, what might be a good choice for the content of the next social studies lesson for these students?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Thoughtful decision making by citizens is essential in a democracy and therefore is an important social studies goal. Which of the five geographic skills helps to define a problem? Which of the five geographic skills helps to process information to be able to understand and interpret relationships and evaluate their importance? Which of the five geographic skills is used when students evaluate or revise their conclusions and generalizations?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

How do you think the results of national tests are best used to improve student learning? Using the above information, identify the out-of-school variables that seem to impact student learning of geography. If a class or school does not provide opportunities for students to learn geography, what are some activities that parents or communities can do to provide geographic learning experiences to the students?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

Read the learning cycle on pages 436--441 and then reflect on it as you answer the following questions. Think about when you were taught how to use latitude and longitude. How well did you accomplish the task? What did you find most difficult? Did you find anything relatively easy about latitude and longitude? How would you describe your memory of the study of latitude and longitude? Have you used latitude and longitude or seen references to them outside a school setting? If so, how were they used? In a skill lesson, the teacher must provide practice in the use of the skill. Where in the learning cycle are practice opportunities suggested or provided? What are some of the strategies the teacher uses to help students succeed in using latitude and longitude? How does the teacher assess students' progress toward learning these skills? Skill lessons are best taught as part of larger units that focus on geography content. What would be an appropriate content focus for a unit that incorporates the teaching of latitude and longitude? During the remainder of the school year, when might a teacher provide some additional practice using latitude and longitude?

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

The Submit Answers for Grading feature requires scripting to function. Your browser either does not support scripting or you have turned scripting off.

So, the Submit Answers for Grading button below will not work.

The following Submit Answers for Grading button is provided in its place and will clear your answers:
The Clear Answers and Start Over feature requires scripting to function. Your browser either does not support scripting or you have turned scripting off.

So, the Clear Answers and Start Over button below will not work.

The following Clear Answers button is provided in its place and will clear your answers: