My contemporary teaching in social studies lesson will be used with my third grade students. We will use Google Earth to research environmental issues located in different regions in the world. Students will locate different places and observe how different communities around the world are making a difference to help the environment. This activity will take place on Nov. 14-15. The lesson will last for approximately 45 minutes each day.

My contemporary teaching in social studies lesson will be designed for students in second through fourth grade at a Title I school.  I plan on implementing the lesson during the first or second week of November with a 3rd grade class.  I will turn an annotated Google Map of Raleigh into a treasure hunt that will help students practice the cardinal directions as well as the concepts of longitude and latitude. 

My plan for the contemporary teaching project is to an activity on Ancient Rome. It would involve the students to use Google Earth and get a visual on  modern day Rome and its physical features. The students would then choose one or two physical land features and use their knowledge of social studies and apply this to how such land features would have influenced Ancient Rome. Their presenation should be no more than two pages and the format is to be left open. This way the students have the flexibilty to present as they see most fit and creative. I would they use outlines, charts, etc. I will be presenting this idea with a sample outline and make some friendly suggestions. This will give the students a spring board to jump off of. The students will be 8th graders and I will be making initial contact with the school on Nov 7.

For my project I plan to teach my 6th grade students about poverty in third world countries by using the video game Ayiti:  The Cost of Life.  I plan on introducing the lesson to them on Friday, November 16.  The students will play the game in our computer lab on Monday the 19th and I will wrap up the lesson on Tuesday the 20th.