[MOSAIC] Ginger's Unit of Study

[thomas]

In California the law talked re so many minutes a week per month.  So I
always taught social studies for two weeks, then science for two weeks.  In
order to give more depth!  Then always found ways to itnegrate that ss and
science into my language arts.  I do realize that HM and OC (and other
basals) control language arts many places but if you sor tout their themes,
and then look at your sss and science themes you can often "arrange"
overlaps.  That's what we did witht he culturally relevant pedagogy we
created for Native American schools.  I think it is possible to subvert the
current paradigm at least some of the time!  Let me know if you'd like to
see what we did.

sally



On 3/31/07 5:30 AM, "Readinglady1 at aol.com" <Readinglady1 at aol.com> wrote:

>  
In a message dated 3/30/2007 9:56:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> 
maria.gomez02 at verizon.net writes:

For  example, in NYC the 3rd grade S.S.
> curriculum calls for the study of  
communities around the world.  Our SS
> textbooks (bought recently) are way  
offline in discussing communities WITHIN
> the US, NOT the world.  It is  because of 
this that I DO NOT teach from this
> textbook.  Rather I look  for whatever 
books I can on the country we are
> studying and teach from there  (the basics, 
geography, history, people,
> they¹re culture, etc.) I only have an  allotted time 
designated ³Science² and
> ³Social Studies² 2 hours COMBINED per  week (two 
30-min sessions each).
> 

And soŠmy question isŠ.how can  I HAVE such a powerful science/social
> 
studies unit with such little time and  restrictions as to what and when I
> can TEACH 
within that subject?  I MUST  make those 2 sessions on each subject
> VERY 
powerful to be able to have the  kind of outcome that I want and that I
> see you¹re 
achieving with your  kids!


Hi Maria,
 
I teach in NYC.  We are
> not a Reading First school so I am not totally  
familiar with your
> restrictions.  Are you able to double up your  sessions?  
Instead of having
> them on separate days in the week, can you  combine them into one 
day?  That
> would lengthen the amount of time spent in  sessions enabling you t
o work
> through cooperative learning activities.  Can  you tell us a little 
more
> about how these restrictions are monitored.
 
Laura

> 



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