Click here for presentation slides (a video of the presentation appears below).
General notes of interest (from Courtney):
- Always teach literacy.
- Always use cross-curricular standards-based objectives.
- Use PVC pipe to create telephone headsets so students can hear themselves reading.
- As an alternative to whole class brainstorming, have students engage in small group brainstorming.
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Accelerated Reader
- Fourth-Grade Hump
- Museum in a Book
- Declaration of Independence by Rod Gragg
- Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery by Rod Gragg
- The ABC's of Evaluation by Sandra Schurr: A book containing cross-curricular ideas for alternative assessment methods.
- Book lists for historical children's literature (all are in Excel format)
- Native Americans of the Colonial Era/Technology Integration—booklist
- Colonial America/Simulations—booklist
- American Revolution/Primary Sources—booklist
- Civil War/Digital Storytelling—booklist
- Westward Expansion/Children's Literature—booklist
- Civil Rights/Service Learning—booklist
- Immigration/Collaborative Biographies—booklist
- The 1930s/Arts Integration—booklist
- Social bookmarking
- Recommended sites:
- "What is Social Bookmarking?": Training Videos
- Links to teacher's guides
- Patty Reed's Doll
- Sallie Fox
- Little House Series (inc. Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, The Long Winter)
- Exploration Picture Books (e.g., Apples to Oregon, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Conestoga Wagons, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, You Wouldn't Want to Live in a Wild West Town, America at the Tine of Lewis and Clark)
