1. For CSTE5337 next semester, you will be working with a team to design and create an interactive website which should provide the learning tools to fulfill all of the 8 modules of Instructional Design Theories you learned from this course. Identify a big concept which can be broken down to at least three sub-topics (dimensions of understanding). This concept needs to be understood and delivered through the interactive website design.
- 5 Themes of Geography - Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction.
2. Pick which relationships constitute the important dimensions of understanding for that concept (Need References).
(6) Geography. The student understands the types, patterns, and processes of settlement. The student is expected to:
(A) locate and describe human and physical features that influence the size and distribution of settlements; and
(B) explain the processes that have caused changes in settlement patterns, including urbanization, transportation, access to and availability of resources, and economic activities
(7) Geography. The student understands the growth, distribution, movement, and characteristics of world population. The student is expected to:
(A) construct and analyze population pyramids and use other data, graphics, and maps to describe the population characteristics of different societies and to predict future population trends;
(B) explain how political, economic, social, and environmental push and pull factors and physical geography affect the routes and flows of human migration;
(8) Geography. The student understands how people, places, and environments are connected and interdependent.
(9) Geography. The student understands the concept of region as an area of Earth's surface with related geographic characteristics. The student is expected to:
(A) identify physical and/or human factors such as climate, vegetation, language, trade networks, political units, river systems, and religion that constitute a region
3. Identify which of those relationships have not already been acquired by the learners, and list them as new relationships to be taught.
-Students must first understand landforms, climate and resources
-Then they must understand how landforms, climate, vegetation, and resources contribute to movement and human-environment interaction.
-Then they must understand how landforms, climate, vegetation, and resources contribute to movement and human-environment interaction.
4. Pick the best practice of using multimedia technology for each new relationship. (For example, Alice, Scratch, Video Clips…etc.1.
- Interactive online maps with pictures will help students understand the difference between absolute and relative location.
- Podcasts and videos will help the student understand region, movement and human-environment interaction
i.e. video of people cutting down rain forests or the history behind why people migrate.
Reference:
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (2010). Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/ch113c.html
Reference:
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (2010). Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/ch113c.html
Have you considered to use Google Earth?
ReplyDeleteI don't really like using Google Earth in the classroom. I find it kind of hard to use on the interactive whiteboard in whole class discussions. I use www.stratalogica.com for both my civics and world geography classes. The maps and charts are made for interactive whiteboards and they have maps that can be printed out for map quizzes.
DeleteCan you elaborate how Module 6 can be applied to the standards you provided for question 2?
ReplyDeleteModule 6 is about understanding...according to the instructional theories site, "When something is meaningfully understood, it is retained much longer, can be built upon to acquire further understanding" (1999).
DeleteThe TEKs for Social Studies or rather more specifically, World Geography are laid out in tiers....first the student must identify physical and political features for a certain region. Then, they build on it by analyzing how that physical or political feature impacts human activity or vice versa. They then make generalizations based on the information, which then you can assess how much they understand.
Thanks!!!
DeleteThis sounds interesting. Technology would help students visually see something they may only have been able to read about it in their social studies book in the past. I wonder if you can go backwards in time with Google Earth. It may be interesting to see how a metropolitan area has grown or how a rural area has gotten smaller over time.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Google Earth is rather old school when it comes to interactive online maps. I really wish there was a site that you could see the development of cities. That would be interesting! Social studies is a hard subject to integrate technology. It seems everything new is either math or science. There are only three ways to learn history....by reading, by hearing or by watching a video...or that is what my dept. says on a daily basis. I do tend to use TCI presentations and love them. I just did a European Union lesson using one of their presentations last Friday. It was really paper based but the students loved it! I wish there were more engaging apps for social studies. They are usually just recall related.
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