Welcome back everybody! Today the Social Studies Buddies taught our first Lewis and Clark lesson to the fourth grade class at BDMS! We completed a direct lesson plan with the students and taught them about Lewis and Clark's journey to the west. We began by introducing ourselves to the class and providing our expectations and class rules for the students to follow throughout the lesson. Next, we assessed student background knowledge by asking the students what explorers do, and to name any explorers they previously know of. We introduced who Lewis and Clark were, their purpose for their exploration, the Native American tribes they met along the way, and the journals they brought back with them filled with newly discovered plants, animals, and stories that made others dream about heading west. We took the time to evaluate how the students were understanding the information presented to them by using Pear Deck questions imbedded throughout the lesson and a Kahoot quiz to wrap up at the end. I had so much fun teaching the 4th graders and I can't wait to teach them again this Tuesday!
Chapter 11 in the textbook discusses civics and how to teach civics in elementary school. To start off, let's ask ourselves, "what really is civics?" Civics is the study of rights and duties in citizenship, or things and activities that we as people must fulfill in society. To effectively teach civics in elementary school, we can first teach children about how our government works and the roles that we play as American citizens so that everybody has a part in society. As American citizens, we all have natural rights, or rights that come naturally to us as people. These rights are given to us by our government and in return for these rights, each person in society has to fulfill their duty. In a classroom setting, a teacher can give out jobs to each student in the class such as line leader, door holder, messenger, etc. to mimic how each person in society has a specific responsibility and role to play that aids us in functioning properly as a whole. These books are great st...
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