TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE INSTRUCTION

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TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE INSTRUCTION

• This presentation will probably involve audience
  discussion, which will create action items. Use
  PowerPoint to keep track of these action items
  during your presentation
• In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button
• Select Meeting Minder
• Select the Action Items tab
• Type in action items as they come up
• Click OK to dismiss this box
• This will automatically create an Action Item
  slide at the end of your presentation with your
  points entered.

• Gay R. Fowler
• EDU 506

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Issues and Problems Related to Technology Use

• The Focus of Social Sciences Instruction
• Reforming the Social Sciences
• Standards for Social Studies Instruction
• History and Social Studies
• Civics and Geography
• New World Order
• Multiculturalism

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Resources and Applications for the Social Sciences

• Computer Software
• Simulations / Instructional Games / Map Utilities
• Data bases
• Videodiscs
• CD-ROMs
• Telecommunications
• Library of Congress
• Smithsonian Institution

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Suggestions for Social Sciences Instruction

• Social Studies Family Day
• Music of the Worlds
• Trading Numbers
• Public Service Project

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Activities

• Training for cultural Awareness
• Brochures
• Multimedia displays
• Attributes of Explorers
• Compare modern-day explorers
• Contrast modern-day explorers

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Activities (continued)

• Exploring Geography
• Identify geographic concepts
• Improve reading comprehension
• Provisioning for a Journey
• Simulations of journeys (Oregon Trail)
• Budgets for journey

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Activities (continued)

• Data base of Inventions
• Design databases
• Observe and compare inventions
• Acid Rain Lets Act Now!
• Research reports
• Newspaper editorial

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Have fun using Technology in your Social Science
Class