Welcome back! I hope you had a joyful winter break! Our Elementary Social Studies updates, announcements, and information are as follows:
African American History Month Engagements Matrix
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SC SS Educators Update
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SC Economics Updates
Courses
Graduate Course: Adventures in Economics and US History
July 7-21, 2015
This three hour graduate course will be held at USC-Columbia and is recommended for teachers of grades 3-8. Have fun teaching economics and history! This graduate course will provide instruction on how to apply economics to events in U.S. History through active learning methodologies. Participants will receive 47 lessons to cover topics during Colonial America, the period of A Young Nation, and The Twentieth Century. Only 20 spots available! Registration is now open.
Competitions
SC Economics Poster Competition; for students in grades K-8
Poster submission are being accepted until March 15. Students are asked to illustrate one of six economic concepts: scarcity, goods and services, specialization and trade, productive resources, producers and consumers, and opportunity cost. Click for an entry form.
SC Stock Market Game; for students in grades 4-12
This online game provides students with a unique, hands-on opportunity to learn about investing and how the economy works. By managing a virtual $50,000 portfolio, students can research, buy, and sell stocks and mutual fund while learning the
fundamentals of long-term saving and investing. Visit the SMG website to register. For a list of webinar training opportunities, visit SC Economics.
SC Young Entrepreneur Award; for students in grades K-12
Know a student that has started their own business? Help reward their entrepreneurial spirit by nominating him/her for the SC Young Entrepreneur Award. Deadline to nominate is January 31, 2015. Finalists will be asked to write a 1 page response to a question. Up to 5 winners will be chosen and each winner will receive $100. To nominate, visit SC Economics.
Know a student that has started their own business? Help reward their entrepreneurial spirit by nominating him/her for the SC Young Entrepreneur Award. Deadline to nominate is January 31, 2015. Finalists will be asked to write a 1 page response to a question. Up to 5 winners will be chosen and each winner will receive $100. To nominate, visit SC Economics.
Workshops
Celebrating Black History Month: Art, Economics, and Geography of
The Great Migration
Columbia, February 14
This workshop is a collaboration between SC Economics, the SC Geographic Alliance, and the SC Department of Education and will be offered as a strand of four 45 minute sessions at Geofest. We will look at The Green Book as a travel guide, motivations for the migration, SC standards for African American History, and visual representations of the migration. Registration is now open.
Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature; K-5
Columbia, March 20
Introduce your students to economic and financial literacy concepts that easily integrate into history, math, language arts and other content areas using popular children's literature. After this 5 hour workshop, teachers will be able to discuss concepts such as capital resources (Three Little Pigs), scarcity (The Lorax), and trade and money (A New Coat for Anna). Registration is now open.
SC Finance Forum
Columbia, April 21
The second SC Finance Forum will have more speakers and cover more content. This full day workshop will provide programs and resources that are available to teachers of personal finance, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, international business,economics, and other related topics. More information to follow.
Primarily Teaching Online
Each summer, the National Archives offers summer institutes on using primary sources. Due to the popularity of these, this year they are offering an online version of the traditionally on-site summer institute. You can join them for the four 1 1/2-hour online sessions:
Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 8:30–10 p.m. ET
Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 8:30–10 p.m. ET
Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 8:30–10 p.m. ET
Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 8:30–10 p.m. ET
They will identify primary sources that align with the National History Day theme for 2015, Leadership and Legacy in History, to be added to DocsTeach.org from among the hundreds of thousands contained in the National Archives main online catalog. Participants will complete weekly assignments and create a final classroom-ready published DocsTeach activity for their students and the general public.
The four sessions will cover the following topics:
- Exploring the most effective search techniques to find documents on the National Archives website on your topic and searching DocsTeach to see if your document is already there.
- Learning about the National Archives and all of its facilities across the United States and the basic method used by the National Archives to store and retrieve original records. Their will also learn about the online resources of the Presidential Libraries and Center for Legislative Archives.
- Exploring the various types of DocsTeach activities, figuring out how to add additional elements, and choosing the most effective activity type for your project.
- Learning more advanced ways to discover related documents that you may want to examine after Primarily Teaching is over, or to link to from your DocsTeach author’s notes.
Class size is limited to 15 participants. Professional development (clock hours) or graduate credit will be available for a fee. For more information and to register, go to their web site at http://www.archives.gov/
Teachers who would like to schedule school tours and/or Traveling Trunks should now contact Celia Galens at 803.252.1770 x 26 orcgalens@historiccolumbia.org.
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Top 10 Myths of ReconstructionTeachers in South Carolina have a unique opportunity and resource when it comes to teaching Reconstruction. The only presidential site in South Carolina, the Woodrow Wilson Family Home is also the only museum in the country that explores the Reconstruction era through the experiences of one community. This distinctly local lens offers teachers in Columbia and across the state a unique opportunity when teaching the history of Reconstruction. The Woodrow Wilson Family Home seeks to dispel some common myths about the time period, and the recent presentation by HC's own James Quint and Jen Taylor at the SCCSS conference discussed these top 10 myths of Reconstruction:
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