{"id":386,"date":"2022-02-17T18:43:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/?p=386"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:46:09","slug":"teaching-inspo-fieldwork-and-in-person-testimonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/2022\/02\/17\/teaching-inspo-fieldwork-and-in-person-testimonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Inspo: Fieldwork and In-Person Testimonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Children who marched for equal rights inspire a new generation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SyS10ZqjsUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I recently came across this segment from PBS News Hour about Polaris Charter Academy, a largely low-income charter school committed to social justice. If you&#8217;re looking for examples of innovative social studies lesson plans, this video is definitely worth a watch. The way the school&#8217;s teachers tie together fieldwork, primary source document analysis, and first-person testimonies in a unit about the Civil Rights Movement is really inspiring. I loved that the project culminated with an actual trip to Birmingham for fieldwork, and I was also struck by how, before that trip, the teachers arranged for people who lived through Jim Crow segregation to come into the classroom and give their first-hand accounts. Inviting people who experienced the era first-hand to speak about their lives is not something I had ever really thought about doing, but listening to the students&#8217; reactions, I can&#8217;t help but think this kind of an interaction would be an incredibly powerful teaching tool.<\/p>\n<p>After watching the video, I also began to reflect on my own experience with field trips and guest speakers. To be honest, I couldn&#8217;t think of a single experience that left a lasting impression on me. We did make the requisite trip to Jamestown in 4th grade, but I don&#8217;t really remember much about it &#8212; it was certainly not an educational experience like the one described in the PBS News Hour segment.\u00a0How about you? Did you take social studies field trips or do field work as a K-12 student? Did you hear a speaker that made a lasting impact? How do you feel about making use of fieldwork and\/or classroom speakers in your social studies teaching today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I recently came across this segment from PBS News Hour about Polaris Charter Academy, a largely low-income charter school committed to social justice. If you&#8217;re looking for examples of innovative social studies lesson plans, this video is definitely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/2022\/02\/17\/teaching-inspo-fieldwork-and-in-person-testimonies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1138,40198,208125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy","category-primary-sources","category-things-to-think-about"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}