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A Nystrom Education Hands-on Program for K-5 Exploring Where and Why is a hands-on social studies program. This program offers opportunities for your students to learn content important vocabulary, engage in critical thinking, develop as responsible citizens, and to be sensitive to others’ cultures. A Nystrom Education Hands-on Program for K-5

Today’s Agenda: Elementary Getting Started Hands-on, Minds-on Learning StrataLogica Closure Today, we are going to spend time on both Exploring Where and Why and StrataLogica.

Getting Started Introductions Warm-up: Roll the Cube Cart’s Components Catalog See your Facilitator notes for further instructions.

Hands-on, Minds-on Learning Group Roles Globes Desk Maps Atlases Raised Relief Maps (bumpy maps) Teacher’s Guide

The Best Place to Start is Your Teacher’s Guide

What Does Exploring Where and Why Do? Develops a solid foundation of essential social studies skills and concepts Develops responsible citizens in the community, country and world Develops multicultural awareness and sensitivity Reinforces reading, writing, math and science development Develops critical thinking skills Integrates frequent assessment and evaluation Stimulates a variety of intelligences Provides learning opportunities for diverse student populations Ensures success for all students I love EWW. I am sure you will too.

EWW’s Scope and Sequence xix-xxii

Each Tab Begins a New Unit (6 Units total) Notates amount of time to be spent on this lesson Table of Contents Additional Literature Links

On the Back of Each Tabbed Divider, Find Your Letter Home

Each Lesson (2-5 each unit) Focus on Previous Learning Strategy ties directly to objective

Each Activity (1-5) Connects to previously-learned content Objectives for the activity Model the lesson: Begin with Getting Started, teach the lesson and then look at the individual pieces. Makes prep work easy

Each Activity Takes 15-20 Minutes Teaching strategy is tied back to the objective Step by step directions

Summarizing and Assessing Each Activity Cross-Curricular Close each lesson

Bringing Closure to a Unit of Study

Literacy Library Lessons

List of Books and Where They Fit Best Notice that all of the books can be used in more than 1 place

Lessons for Each Book

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Wall Maps

Note How the Maps are Labeled

Graphic Organizers

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