Mr. Ambrose’s
6th Social Studies Class: 2002-2003
GEOGRAPHIC
LITERACY: Part 1. GEOGRAPHY DICTIONARY: A Workshop
Approach to building a geography vocabulary.
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The formula is simple: L = TBC |
LEARNING = |
THINKING and
Background Info.
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BUILDING Knowledge & Concepts
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COMMUNICATING What Has Been Learned |
Part 1. Thinking
and Background Information:
1. IDENTIFY PROBLEMS to be Solved: A whole-class
CrossTalk to identify problems to be solved.
- Team 6-4 must create a multi-media geography
dictionary.
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Over 100
Geography Vocabulary words to learn in the 1st week of school !!!
A classroom full of students new to PCMS and new to eachother. HOW ??? …the solution: A BLUE-SCREEN,
VIRTUAL REALITY, Vocabulary Movie. … a movie made by Team 6-4 Vocab
Specialists !!! |
2.
BACKGROUND: One week of Direct Instruction by the teacher. Worksheets, skill development, _notes from text, and vocabulary assignments by the
student..... with quizzes, etc.(Students usually work by
themselves.)
- Presentation Tips and Skills: CrossTalk on Presentation
Skills required for producing a Vocabulary Documentary. View “Presentation Tips-Part
1”. Follow Up
Discussion. Team 6-4 creates
“Blue Screen Presentation Rubric”( v.1.0 ) .
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Vocabulary: Geography
Vocab –Found
in Explore Geography Picture
Dictionary, (Laurie Regan, Ballard and Tighe Publishing). –Be able to correctly define and use
(read, write, talk) the geography vocabulary found in text. Each Coop Learning
Group will become specialists on their 13 vocabulary words.
3.
VOCABULARY CERTIFICATION: (to be completed in Part 2, below):
- Each coop group must pass a
graphic board Vocabulary Quiz in order to become “Vocabulary
Specialists”.
- Only Vocabulary Specialists can
participate in creating the Vocabulary Documentary.
- Those coop groups not
qualifying as Vocabulary Specialists must write and then study Storyboard
Notes on all 132 geography vocabulary words.
Part 2. Building Knowledge and
Concepts: 
1. THE STUDENTS BECOME EXPERTS: The students are problem solvers who research, work
at Print Media Stations and Educational Technology Stations in order to get
information and data which they think about, rebuild into a personal library of
information and personal experiences.
2. THE STUDENTS REFLECT on the information they have found; they re-sequence
the information and re-think it. Small group discussions, study groups,
collaborative On-Line discussions (The TALKING PLACE), and interactive quizzes
provide opportunities to refine learning and build understanding. The students relate the details they
find during their research to the concepts introduced (in Part 1) and thereby
develop a deeper understanding of those concepts.
(The
following tasks are to be completed as Rotations …
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W) performed by the
entire class at the same time (with the help of the teacher)
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G) performed each coop group (with the help of the teacher if
needed)
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S) performed by each student-by self-
within a coop group (with the help of the teacher if needed)
3. GEOGRAPHY DICTIONARY: —“BUILDING KNOWELDGE” ROTATIONS
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JOB #1 STORY BOARD NOTES (S) 1. Write StoryBoard
Notes on the 13 words assigned to your coop group. Grade_____ S-I______T-I_____ |
JOB #2 GRAPHIC BOARD QUIZ (G) 1.Study your 13 words. Make sure each person in the group understands each vocab word…and can use a picture to explain or describe an example of what each word means.2. Request to take the Graphic Board
Quiz … this is your way to qualify as “Voc Specialists” !! Grade_____S-I______T-I_____ |
JOB #3 (PRACTICE for Presentation) (G) 1. Use
your StoryBoard Notes and the Blue Screen Presentation Rubric to practice
explaining and describing your 13 vocab words. 2.
Determine Roles; each Voc Specialist
Group must have a main speaker and 1 or 2 “Pointers” who help “show” what
the word means. Rotate roles
within your group. |
JOB #4 STORY BOARD NOTES –PART 2 (G) 1. Those
coop groups which fail to qualify as Voc Specialists, must write StoryBoard Notes
on each of he 132 geography vocab words and be prepared for a test on these
words. 2. All Voc Specialist Groups are EXEMPT
from this Job. Grade_____S-I______T-I_____ |
4. THE TEACHER MANAGES all these opportunities for students to explore and to build knowledge and concepts.
Part 3. Communicating
What Has Been Learned:
1. THE EXPERTS CERTIFY THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND
SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS: The students respond to test questions and test
activities in order to certify their knowledge of details and understanding of
concepts.
· Team 6-4 “Vocabulary
Specialists”:
2. THE WORKSHOP: STUDENTS PREPARE TO TEACH: The
students create multi-media presentations in which they demonstrate through
informative cross-teaching, the quality of their knowledge of details and
understanding of concepts.
3.
GEOGRAPHY DICTIONARY: —“COMMUNICATING
WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED” TEST, WORKSHOP
AND TEACHING - PRESENTATION
ROTATIONS
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JOB # 1. PRESENTATION:
(S) 1.
Use
Blue Screen Technology to present your 13 voc words 2. This is actually your TEST on
the Geog Vocab. 3. You will each receive a Geog
Vocab Grade and an Presentation Grade |
JOB # 2. EVALUATION PANEL (G) 1. Each
Vocab Specialists Group will serve as an Evaluation Panel and use the Blue
Screen Presentation Rubric to score the “performance” of another
Vocab Specialists Groups. |
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JOB # 3. TALKING PLACE: (S)- Self Evaluation 1. Each
student must join the Talking Place discussion 2.
Each
student must write a
“Self-Group Evaluation Report Grade_____S-I______T-I_____ |
JOB # 4. . VIEW
Finished Vocabulary Movie (W) 1.Watch
and learn from finished movie. |
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JOB # 5. HYPERSTUDIO Version of Geography
Vocab Movie (G) 1. Each
Vocab Specialists Group will work on a section of the HyperStudio version of
the Geog. Vocab … |
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TEST SCORECARD:
(Geog SCORE) _______
(Presentation
SCORE)___________HyperStudio SCORE______
