The BBK activity is great! I enjoyed going through the process as a student and also having you explain, from a teacher’s perspective, the how and why of the process in explicit terms. That is one of the most helpful models for me — to see a strategy or method from both sides at once. Just going through it as a student, I tend to focus on the task, and not on the process. Just learning how a strategy works from a teacher’s perspective, I don’t get to see and feel it from the student’s perspective. So, thank you!! I can see how natural it would be to differentiate in this model, giving each student, regardless of their reading level or background knowledge, a turn being the expert. I expect that I will use this strategy frequently with my future upper elementary students.<\/p>\n
I am so curious now about the government recommendations that were given during the 30s. I wonder if they were effective. I wonder if people had the resources to implement any of the recommendations, or if the government provided resources. I wonder why we hear so much about the Great Depression, but not so much about this — and wonder if students in the midwest learn about this more comprehensively. I also think about our current US food supply — and the fact that the midwest has just been destroyed by floods…this sounds a lot more like a national emergency than that other thing (which shall remain unnamed). I think I’ll plant a big garden this year….<\/p>\n
As far as lesson planning goes, I think I’m in good shape. \ud83d\ude42 My main problem (and time-vortex), as I’ve mentioned, is in deciding which standard or topic to plan for. This time around, I gave myself a time limit to make that decision, and almost<\/em> stuck to it…which saved me TONS of time. So, while my Maggie Walker lesson has still taken me longer than I think is reasonable, I’m nearly finished and feeling pretty good about it. Thanks for the extra time and support to work through the process!<\/p>\n Finally, I apologize for the late entry here. With my kids home on spring break, and getting into the flow with Maggie Walker, it honestly just slipped my mind. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The BBK activity is great! I enjoyed going through the process as a student and also having you explain, from a teacher’s perspective, the how and why of the process in explicit terms. That is one of the most helpful models for me — to see a strategy or method from both sides at once. … Continue reading Class 11: BBK and Dust Bowl<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}