Introduction to the site
This website was created for our "Teaching of Social Studies" methods class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our unifying theme that we are focusing on is schooling.
Julie's Lesson Plans
The lessons I created are to give the students an opportunity to learn about different schools around the world as well as learning about what school used to be like for people in the community. They will be comparing and contrasting these experiences with their own experiences in school. The students will be documenting a typical day in their lives by making a video and by taking pictures. The students will also be going on a field trip to a retirement home to ask community members what school was like for them when they were in fourth grade. Lastly, the students will have the opportunity to video chat with students in different parts of the world to ask them questions about their lives. The overall questions the students will be answering are: How has schooling changed over the years? What does schools look like in other parts of the world? What does a typical day of school look like for you?
Enjoy!
Lesson 1: A Typical day in the life of _____________
Lesson 2: Past and Present Schooling
Lesson 3: Interviewing a community member
Lesson 4:Documenting a day at school
Lesson 5:Video Chat with the students from a different country
Emily's Lesson Plans
I created a unit that promotes community building and anti-bullying behaviors in a first grade classroom. The unit begins at the beginning of the year to help students get to know one another as well as their classroom teacher. Each progressive lesson creates a sense of safety and security within the classroom so students feel comfortable and safe at school. Too often the school building and the people inside are feared by students because of bullying and violence. Once the classroom has become a safe space the unit continues as students discuss feelings, conflict and conflict resolution. The finale of the unit is a role playing lesson in which the first graders join with a group of older students and perform appropriate and inappropriate ways to handle conflicts at school. By the end of the unit students should feel that they are a part of a community and that they have skills to recognize and control their emotions in a healthy way. The lessons are linked below.
Lesson 1: Community Puzzle: How Do We Fit Together
Lesson 2: Name Mobiles
Lesson 3: What is a Friend?
Lesson 4: What am I Feeling?
Lesson 5: What is a Conflict?: Dealing With Anger
Lesson 6: Conflict Resolution
Lesson 7: Role Playing Activity for Community Building
Stephanie's Lesson Plans
In this unit, students explore what it means to be a kindergarten. After a student left our classroom to be home-schooled, the students in my practicum site expressed confusion about this type of schooling. Because of this, I interviewed four students about schooling in general. When all of the students listed themselves and their friends as "people who go to school", I realized that a lesson about kindergarten in general would benefit my students by placing their own kindergarten in the context of other kindergarten experiences in their community and in their world. This unit would be ten lessons long, and samples of five of the lessons are linked below.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Kindergarten Unit: Our Classroom
Lesson 2: Kindergarten at Franklin Elementary
Lesson 3: Kindergarten in the Madison Metropolitan School District
Lesson 4: Exploring Kindergarten through Home-School
Lesson 5: Toys and Entertainment for Kindergartens of the Past
Lesson 6: Historical Kindergartens
Lesson 7: A Day in the Life of a Historical Kindergartner
Lesson 8: Kindergartens around the World: Korea
Lesson 9: Kindergartens around the World: Pakistan
Lesson 10: If We Designed Our Own Kindergarten
