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Crista's Grade 5 US Elections Discussion
The Call for Participation
on twitter and classroom 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/6oskrh)
Dear Classroom 2.0 Friends: Know any grade 5 teachers interested in collaborating on the planning of a civics and presidential elections project? Please send them my way. jane.krauss(at)gmail.com. Crista Lawson, lead teacher on this project, and I have set up (this page), a wiki page where we can organize our best thinking.
Please come on in, password is rpbl.
This interaction could be anything from a 'critical friends' examination of each other's ideas for teaching during the election season to planning for a collaboration that encompasses understanding of US regions, local polling, and a mock election.
If you are interested I'll be hosting a Wednesday July 30th skype call at 10:00 a.m. pacific. My skype account is jkrauss1989. Feel free to make me your contact.
Please add your ideas to the wiki, invite others, in general start thinking about what is critical for kids to know and do as a result of studying civics during this election year (and how to make it fun!)
Possible Collaborators
Crista Lawson, 5th grade teacher, Eugene, OR. Crista is the motivating force behind this (potential) collaboration!
blog/website:
email: cnlawson1@aol.com
skype or phone: cnlawson
Jamie Nichelson, 5th grade teacher, Eugene, OR. Jamie is Crista's teaching partner
blog/website:
email: jnic11@hotmail.com
skype or phone:
Sarah Jones, 5th grade teacher, Eugene, OR.
blog/website:
email: jones_sa@4j.lane.edu
skype or phone:
Gail Desler, amazing tech coach in N. California. Has a grade 5 teacher she'd like to ask to participate in this discussion.
blog/website: http://blogwalker.edublogs.org
email: gailhd@jps.net
skype or phone: gailhd 916-995-7007
Lisa Parisi, Fifth grade teacher, Long Island New York self acclaimed 'big tech geek'
blog/website: http://lisaslingo.blogspot.com/
class website:http://herricks.org/webpages/spcollaborative/
email: lparisi@herricks.org
skype or phone: lisaparisi
Christine Southard, Fifth grade teacher, co-teaches with Lisa Parisi
blog/website:http://christinesouthard.blogspot.com
email:christinesouthard@gmail.com
skype or phone:
Paul Bogush, 8th grade social studies, Connecticut
blog/website: http://www.blogush.edublogs.org
email:
skype or phone:
Ginger Lewman, director of the f2f Program at Turning Point Learning Center, a charter school in eastern Kansas - heavy into podcasting
blog/website: http://www.podomatic.com/people/index/gingerl
email: GingerTPLC@gmail.com gingerl@essdack.org
skype or phone: gingertplc
Jane Krauss, educator and pbl fan, Eugene, OR
blog/website: http://reinventingpbl.blogspot.com
email: jane.krauss@gmail.com
skype or phone: jkrauss1989 541.221.3219
Linda Nitsche, Gifted Support Teacher, East Vincent School, Spring City, PA -
blog/website: http://nitschenotes.blogspot.com
Class site- LearningHub
email: lvnitsche@gmail.com
Skype or phone: lvnitsche
David Cosand, 5th grade teacher, Medford, OR.
blog/website: http://www.dreamextreme.us
email: davidcosand@integrity.com
skype or phone: davidcosand
Blanca E. Duarte, Technology Integration Specialist, NYIT, NY
blog/website: Blog
email: bduarte.teach@gmail.com
skype or phone: blancab / blancaedu
Denise Phillips, 5th grade Accelerated Teacher, Elk Grove, CA
blog/website: Classroom Blog
skype or phone: scrappyd63
Possible Common Materials
divvy up and report out?
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Germs of Ideas
Everyone can go back to Crista's Project Sketch or Outline (from Crista's page, link at top) to see the content standards and foundational thinking that could guide our work.
Jane Krauss here: I support collaboration on a project such as this for two reasons:
1) A country is its citizens and whether we know it or not our lives are intertwined. When we understand each other's interests and concerns we become more informed decision-makers and less self-centered. Obama said in his speech in Berlin the other day: “Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world." Let's help our children become citizens of a bigger world.
2) I think when kids have to prepare their thinking/work so they can share it with others, it raises their commitment and interest in doing quality work. Even if it's a tiny comparison of class election voting patterns, it would be fun to share the analysis w/ classes in other regions. And classes could say whether they voted like their neighborhood, city, state, or more like each other... OOH.. The Kid Konstituency. That would be a fun project name (maybe the spelling is corny).
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